Bus breakdown Ustynivka - Mykolaiv

The bus broke down about 15 minutes after leaving the village. The fuel stopped coming through. After taking the engine apart, we managed to start the bus; the pump turned out to be dead. We turned around and headed back, the driver stopped a couple of times and pumped the fuel by hand.

Pretty unlucky. On the one hand, because of the holiday very few people were traveling and the losses for the driver are small, but on a day off everything is closed and you can't get the part you need in the village.

So we hired a car that took us to the Novyi Buh highway. We rode in a Kopeika, the road is the worst, good thing there hadn't been rain for a long time and we could drive on the dirt track through the field. It's strange the bus still breaks down fairly rarely. How can anyone drive on a road like that every day, twice a day?

Now we're standing at the 216th kilometer of the Novyi Buh highway. Toward Novyi Buh there are 3 people and toward Kryvyi Rih 7 people. Nobody wants to pick anyone up, strange people, they're driving empty anyway and burning fuel - they could've made some money. No telling when the scheduled bus will come.

The internet is rough: there's no EDGE in the field, only GPRS.