A group of friends who took a double-decker bus 40,000 miles around the world have reunited after 50 years.
The 11 men and women were just strangers when they answered an advert to travel across the globe in the iconic vehicle.
They took the bus that was named “Sir George White Special,”—after the aviation pioneer—from Bristol in England to Canada, North America, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
Braving “blistering” desert heat and bone-chilling cold in the prairies, the group spent 22 months aboard their less-than-50 mph bus.
(L to R) David McLaughlin, Mike Conway, Bernice Poole, John Winter, and Sally Mears. (SWNS)
The group traveled thousands of miles and worked along the way, picking fruit, planting lily bulbs, cleaning restaurants, selling British goods, and working as chauffeurs….