He shook hands at a polling place in Orlando, at Fred's Southern Kitchen in Plant City, and on the Disney master-planned town green in Celebration, his bus parked between Persimmon Street and Begonia Road.
Today's bus celebration will follow the same route, travelling along streets including Fulham Road and King's Road before ending in Parsons Green.
A man with a sequined top hat and party paraphernalia reserves his spot for New Year's Eve; he leaps around in celebration after the bus broadcasts a New Year's countdown.
That was crowned by victory at the Oval and long days of celebration, notably a bus-stop tour of the West End of London and a Downing Street reception from which the star of the series, Andrew Flintoff, emerged tired and emotional and glassy-eyed.
If only because, as KP points out in his book, English cricket has not produced a real popular boundary-breaking star since the 2005 Ashes, the last free-to-air televised series, with its 8.4m-peak viewers and its open top bus celebrations, which dished up Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff.
We were waiting and waiting until the last minute, then you could see the celebrations on the bus.
LONDON — If you knew nothing about the history of Manchester, and the tribal affiliations that have divided its soccer fans for more than a century, you could imagine City and United sharing an open-top bus in celebration today.
As part of a 50 year anniversary celebration of that historic bus trip, later dubbed the Freedom Ride, Australian country music singer Troy Cassar-Daley has written a song – and named an entire album – that honours Perkins and his fellow riders.
The day after the play-off final thousands turned out to witness the club's players, management, staff and directors ride through York city centre on an open-topped bus, in celebration of what The Press described as "an unsurpassed nine days in the Minstermen's proud existence".
Real Madrid defender Sergio Ramos and Liverpool goalkeeper Jose Reina were at the centre of the players' celebrations on the team bus as the parade inched its way down Madrid's Gran Via.
Pushing into midfield, Pepe had been Madrid's most effective marker of Messi in two earlier matches during the month, one a tie in a Spanish league game, the other a Real Madrid victory for the Spanish Cup (which was unceremoniously dropped under the team bus during the celebration).
