I kept having nightmares about randomly deciding to go to a terrible unsafe city and then trying to book my exit all day long and all the buses being full and not actually having a place to stay for the night
This was very distressing
...Not helped by the fact that I am worried by the idea of the buses to my next destination all being full! I didn't book in advance like I thought about because it was all in Latvian and I didn't know how
that system handled tickets - if you needed to print them out or what
Bleh
Oh well, worst case scenario, I reach the next town pretty late
Or I come back to the hostel I stayed at tonight and either book another bed or use their internet to book another hostel bed
Welp that was about as stressful as my subconscious was telling me. Should've dropped by the bus station the day before and picked up a ticket for the next day at a better time
Nothing particularly horrible, just ended up taking a way later bus than I like to take because all the earlier ones were sold out before I got there
Which I suspected would happen, tbh, traveling on a weekend at high season doesn't tend to get you on the next bus
oh well had a couple margaritas and am now way less tense