Buses and Backpacks

Six months. One backpack. A continent crossed by bus.

Buses and Backpacks is a travel memoir about moving slowly through South America-by overnight buses, shared kitchens, and conversations that don't always land in the right language. Along the way, Mai González navigates the quiet realities of long-term travel: exhaustion and awe, cultural missteps, unexpected kindness, and the strange intimacy of being welcomed into other people's lives.

This isn't a checklist of highlights or a race betwe...