That notorious bustrip from Siem Reap to BKK

Yesterday morning I took the bus to Bangkok. This bustrip is quite notorious because of the state of the road between Siem Reap and the border, I wouldn't really call it a road and definitely not a highway like they do in Cambodia, it's a bunch of potholes in the dirt. And there are a lot of scams they try to pull on you, during this trip, especially when you do it in the other direction.
They picked me up at 7am, and after picking up enough other tourists so the bus was completely stuffed with people and luggage they started their trip towards the border. For about half an hour the road was still quite good. But then it got worse and worse and worse and... But eventhough we were being shaken alover, we were proceeding at a more or less decent speed, because the road was in a 'good' shape as it didn't rain. After stopping for lunch and driving through a lake in Sisophon, the road seemed to get better and I started to think that maybe we would be able to make it to the border sooner than expected. Off course about a minute after that thought we heard a strange noice coming from underneath the bus, and yes, it had broken down... We had to get out of the bus and the driver started to work on it. A French guy who had taken this bus many times already said that it would most likely take about 2 or 3 hours before the bus would be fixed. But the gods decided to be kind to us and after about half an hour we were back on the road continuing our journey. The road got worse again, off course and after another 2 hours we finally reached the border in Poi Pet. It was 3.30pm by now, it took us about 8.5 hours to travel 150 km. Crossing the border was easy and on the thai side we got another bus, true luxury compared to that Cambodian bus. For some reason the busdriver didn't want to drive fast though, saying that he wanted to drive 'safely' and we didn't arrive in Bangkok until 8.45pm. It was definitely an exhausting trip, but I was happy to be back in Bangkok in one piece...