I'm with you on that one. Buses really scare me. I seem to have a knack for getting on the wrong one. Then spending a couple of hours figuring out transfers to get back to where I meant to go.
One time in college I took a late night bus downtown Seattle to take some night pictures for an art class. I stupidly thought they ran all night. Wrong. I was on the last bus at about 11pm. Next bus to get back to school was at 6am.
That was a looooong night.
Did you get some good pictures, at least?