From Long Beach, California: " 'That Boy Can Drive': Behind the Wheel at the 2012 International Bus Roadeo," by Nate Berg for The Atlantic

Excitement is in the air, like the heat rising up from the asphalt of this hotel parking lot where a couple hundred men and women have gathered, traveling from all over North America, to compete in what is likely the most vaunted event in all of public transportation: the 2012 International Bus Roadeo – or more colloquially, the bus olympics. (Read more here.)