Chapter 80, In Between
Tel Aviv, the biggest city in Israel. It had its own bus fleet called Dan with a large bus station. Dan’s buses were serving all over the Greater Tel-Aviv area. The other national bus corporation - Eged - had a new station being built for the last 10 years. We were always kidding saying that when it will be finished it will be too small to hold the large fleet. For now, Eged spreads its buses next to the Dan’s station. Soldiers could ride buses for free, so on bad weather days I took the bus to Tel Aviv and from there take another bus to the base’s junction and from there I would hitch hike. It took longer than just hitch hiking; this is why I would only take the buses on bad weather. One of the streets next to the station is called “Neveh Sha’anan”. On each side of that street were lined up all kind of shoe stores. Each competing for customers. This was the cheapest place to buy shoes. The first time I came there was when we went...