Betsy's Destiny

✍ Scribed by Richard F. Bernard

• Book ID: 111096191
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 4 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781426991547

✦ Synopsis

A spirited school bus with impish instincts arrives at a small school district outside El Paso and finds herself under the guidance of a driver called Marge-the-Sarge by her bus passengers. She's a divorced mother of two grown girls, who needs the job and finds ways to 'handle' Betsy, whom she names after her father's WWII bomber.

After a decade of daily travel and a few adventures on long trips, Betsy is sold to a dealer across the Rio Grande in Cuidad Juarez. She is sold and resold, deep down into Mexico. In Morelia, while racing to get customers , she is wrecked in a collision and is sold to the brothers Carlos and Pedro Rodriguez who haul her off to their in-the-street- repair facility in Mexico City. After much work the brothers rebuild Betsy into a bizarre-looking bus , painted the colors of Mexico: green, red and white. She's named "The Patriotic Bus' and gets some notoriety before being sold again to a big farming operation outside Oaxaca. There, life slows down as she trudges from field to field transporting farm workers. Embroiled in a farm worker demand for better wages, she is torched, and left to rust. She is finally rescued by a poor church in need of a 'platform ' to be their entry in the Christmas parade around the zocolo in Oaxaca. How she encounters Marge at the height of the parade is the climax of a charming cross-cultural story of triumph over odds and a victory for the downtrodden everywhere.