I don't know, it just kinda happened.
My earliest bus memory was seeing a parked MTA Fishbowl in Manhattan, this was like '96, I just remember I was breaking my neck to see it (and an old fashioned fire truck), 2 old fashioned vehicles in the same place. This was the stuff that you only saw on TV lol. I was very young (three-ish).
I just always liked buses, I like trains too. I'm not a serious transit-fan, I've never busfanned or railfanned and I only took bus pics once when I was waiting for the bus. I prefer driving. I'm mostly a regular rider that knows a lot. I like using a speed monitoring App when I ride the LIRR, I think the highest it went was 82mph in Western Suffolk County, it also hit 76mph in between Penn Station & Jamaica, I only did it a few times though. The highest I saw on an RTS was 35mph (smh lol).