The jeepnys are cheap and available nearly everywhere and we ride them often.
The biggest reason is that I'm a cheap bastard at heart and I cant see spending money on a ride.
The secondary reason is that I'm on a mission of another sort, to meet and be seen by the natives. Some sort of PR campaign you might say.
There are so few Americans that ride jeepnys that some pinoys may come to the untrue conclusion that we are "too sexy" to ride the cheap and common transport.
It's true that they are often crowded and the ride quality is BAD, that they don't have AC and that the windows are very low for someone of American height.
The ONE THING that really kills me in the jeepnys is passing all these buses.
Many of the bus's engines are in the rear. Most we'll say. I'm not an expert on that.
And with the engine being in the rear they have a radiator that takes in the air to cool the engine.
At idle in the street the discharge from the radiator from the buses is brutal. Where is the air intake for the radiator? On the side? Why does the heat flow out of that duct? Is this the exhaust duct for the cooling air?
It doesnt make sense to me that this duct would push air out but whenever we pass one of these buses and it sits at idle while we're waiting for traffic to move again, it's like an oven in the jeepny.
It's brutal hot in proximity to those radiator ducts.
They are cheap though.
