Get on Board

I don’t what I was thinking when I said “yes” but, it was obvious not all my logical nerves were firing. Somehow life is better that way. Most who know me understand I am no movie buff and I definitely can’t speak Spanish. Odds-on a Tuesday night one would not expect me to be shellin’ out 6 big-ones for a double header at Vancouver’s Latino Cultural week Film Festival Screening.

Had you have gone (and really you should have) your heart may also have been won over by Cuba’s Pink Camello, "the Camel Bus".




Amidst the broken shambles of Cuba’s “special period” transportation network the cries of the people could be heard "If Camello shuts down, may God help us all!” While other buses layed ruin aside the road Camello didn't disapoint. Trucking along the Cuban country side, it trolled its 300 finely dressed suburban Cubans payload to their Havana salsa engagements night after night.

Little more than a covered Bolivian flatbed attached to a semi, no modern feet of engineering can match its price point never mind its efficiency. Alas a new saviour of Vancouver transportation woes. Forget twinning the Port Man, Skytrain expansion or Olympic info structure, at 20k a piece Camello can shoulder the load. SVU’s would be a thing of the past, Camello would chew them up and spit them out in his wake and with that kind of advertising space they would practically pay for themselves.

So don’t delay, call your MP tell’em to get on board, you only stand for/on Camello.


-message brought to you by Fidel’s Used Camello Sales Emporium