In Not the Billionaire, I make a very brief mention of Genevieve and her new friend, Marianne, taking Marianne’s kids on a Red Bus Tour of Glacier National Park, which is near Kalispell, Montana, where a portion of this book and some of the next book will take place. In researching this, I also discovered that you can take a Yellow Bus Tour in Yellowstone, which now makes me want to go to both of these parks and experience a ride in each colored bus. 😉
A few interesting things on the Red Bus Tour website that I thought I’d share:
• During the early years of touring, women were discouraged from riding in the front because they distracted male drivers. <— This one made me LOL!
• The drivers are called “Jammers” because they could be heard “jamming” the gears of the red buses going up Going-to-the-Sun Road when the buses had standard transmissions.
• The color of the Red Buses comes from the Ripe Mountain Ash Berry in Glacier National Park.
• The Red Buses of Glacier are nicknamed “The Rubies of the Rockies.”
• In addition to touring guests around Glacier, the buses have also served as evacuation vehicles in times of fire or flooding.
I love knowing the history behind things and learning interesting facts. And now I’ve got all kinds of stories spinning around in my mind about these buses. LOL!
Not the Billionaire arrives on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited on February 12th!