Bus to Africa, with a layover in HELL

Worst travel experience of my life, sorry Megabus.  I usually love the reliably cheap double decker bus with wifi and outlets for charging your laptop, but when the bus driver is forging documents which results in a 4 HOUR DELAY, not so much.  Here's my day:
8:30 Leave for the bus station w/ plenty of time to explain why I have 2 tickets for all my stuff
9:30 Bus departs on schedule.  I pop in How to Train your Dragon and enjoy the soon-to-be classic.
11:30 We're pulled over at a weigh station for an hour and a half with no explanation.  Rumors circulate that the bus is too heavy (?) and that we're going somewhere else to meet another bus which will take us to NY. 
1:00 I contemplate getting in a cab and taking it to Hartford (yes, we're still not past Hartford at this point) to get in a car that will go straight to the airport, which in retrospect, would have been much less stressful.  Soon, however, a kindly bus driver named Ernie takes over and says our first driver had forged some documents and had to be let go!  Shady stuff...
1:45 we arrive in Farmington, CT, where we get yet another bus driver named Clive

Not quite...
5:45!!! Our bus finally gets into 27th and 7th ave, where I have to get on a subway (7 blocks away with 150 lbs of luggage) to take me to JFK.  Total time on that @%($&#@ing bus: 8.25 hours!  Not cool Megabus.
7:00 I arrive at JFK, an hour before departure.

Luckily after that it's been pretty smooth sailing.  We have about a 15 hour layover in Casablanca so the airline puts us up in a hotel!  It's not even an overnight.  Not on American I'll tell you that...


                     Chillin' at the airport                                                     The big market place

Anywho, we should be getting into Bamako sometime around 12:40am tonight, and according to Michelle, Sunday is wedding day in the summer, and crashing is encouraged!  Wilson/Vaughn style. 
Bon Voyage!