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Greyhound, Amtrak or what have you. Got any cool stories? I've wanted to do this myself some day to see what it's like. My biggest question is, when taking the bus, how do you eat? Do they make planned stops at some sort of eatery, or are you expected to bring your own food/make do with whatever sad offerings exist near the bus stop?
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Apr 9, 2024 03:36
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here u go op: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8QGTaGwxxc summary: it's rear end.
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Apr 9, 2024 03:39
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better crawl on the ground than take a grey hound
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Apr 9, 2024 03:41
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bossy lady posted:here u go op: drat, this is one hell of a channel. i'm gonna be watching alot of this man's videos, ty.
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Apr 9, 2024 03:48
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I took an airplane before (:
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Apr 9, 2024 03:52
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Amtrak had a writer's residency back in 2014 where you could apply and they'd let you ride the train back and forth for free for a month. I regret never applying because it prevented me from writing my debut novel Free Train
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Apr 9, 2024 03:53
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I took a night bus from Akita to Tokyo and it sucked. My wife wanted to take the trans siberian rail road from Beijing to Moscow but then we watched Trans Siberian with Woody Harrelson and now she doesn't want to. Might still take the Cis Siberian someday.
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Apr 9, 2024 03:55
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pencilhands posted:drat, this is one hell of a channel. i'm gonna be watching alot of this man's videos, ty. 
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Apr 9, 2024 04:02
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Yep
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Apr 9, 2024 04:05
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My cousin's friend took a Greyhound bus from the eastern US to north-western Canada to visit his brother. A solid week on the bus each way. When he got back, he had the kind of dead-eye look normally reserved for people returning from combat and "didn't want to talk about it". I only took a Greyhound bus a couple of times when I was in school, and it still turned what is normally a 3 hour drive into an 8 hour ordeal. Basically: bossy lady posted:summary: it's rear end.
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Apr 9, 2024 04:07
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house of the dad posted:Amtrak had a writer's residency back in 2014 where you could apply and they'd let you ride the train back and forth for free for a month. I regret never applying because it prevented me from writing my debut novel Free Train Hey Jack Kerouac, I think of your Mother
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Apr 9, 2024 04:08
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greyhound must have been designed, from the ground up, as a punishment. that's just all there is to it.
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Apr 9, 2024 04:09
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the suck bus
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Apr 9, 2024 04:10
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Buce posted:greyhound must have been designed, from the ground up, as a punishment. that's just all there is to it. Samsara in a $69 ticket
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Apr 9, 2024 04:10
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there's been several/dozens of articles about train trips, they seem fine if you can eat the time investment. im unaware of articles about long bus trips, there's probably a reason for that.
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Apr 9, 2024 04:12
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oops, i misspelled country as county in the topic title. could a mod please fix it for me? tyia.
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Apr 9, 2024 04:14
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used to take greyhound ~250 miles each way regularly when I was in a long-distance relationship the last couple years of undergrad it loving sucked
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Apr 9, 2024 04:17
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pencilhands posted:oops, i misspelled country as county in the topic title. could a mod please fix it for me? tyia. no one noticed until you pointed it out!!!
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Apr 9, 2024 04:17
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PhazonLink posted:there's been several/dozens of articles about train trips, they seem fine if you can eat the time investment. Yeah, long low-speed rail trips are more about the trip itself than actually getting somewhere, especially when those tickets often cost as much, or even more, than just flying.
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Apr 9, 2024 04:17
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Longest I've done is Albuquerque to Grand Rapids. Nothing exciting happened on the train. There were a ton of amish/mennonite people after we got to like St. Louis. The train was delayed by so much I missed my transfer in Chicago even though it was like a 3 or 4 hour layover lmao. They put me on a shuttle to Grand Rapids and it was horrible. Like overcrowded airport shuttle, but for 4 hours.
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Apr 9, 2024 04:20
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My brother took an Amtrak once. Driving between the cities takes about 8 hours. The train was supposed to take 12 hours, but wound up being over 16, because they kept having to pull onto side tracks and let freight pass through. Someone also quite literally destroyed the toilet in their car by throwing an enormous pile of towels in, despite all of the signs telling people not to. In contrast, high speed rail in Europe and Asia is great, A++++, would absolutely travel with again.
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Apr 9, 2024 04:27
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I took the bus from Portland ME to Washington DC I left a boy, and returned.... a Man.
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Apr 9, 2024 04:29
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The_Franz posted:My brother took an Amtrak once. Driving between the cities takes about 8 hours. The train was supposed to take 12 hours, but wound up being over 16, because they kept having to pull onto side tracks and let freight pass through. Someone also quite literally destroyed the toilet in their car by throwing an enormous pile of towels in, despite all of the signs telling people not to. lol imagine someone being like "dont go in there, i DESTROYED that bathroom" and you go in and they werent being metaphorical
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Apr 9, 2024 04:35
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pencilhands posted:lol imagine someone being like "dont go in there, i DESTROYED that bathroom" and you go in and they werent being metaphorical Here's a Reader's Digest condensed version of the story PH: The Night before Thanksgiving, and everyone is on the bus. I make my way back to the bathroom, and a little old lady eventually comes out, smiling. I walk in, and there's piss, everywhere. Like someone intentionally pissed all over the floor and walls. Was it that old lady? I don't know. But what I do know is there's someone waiting to come in to this bathroom after me. And they're gonna blame me. So.... I do what I can to clean up the piss bus bathroom on Thanksgiving Eve....
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Apr 9, 2024 04:38
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Greyhound makes tons of planned stops and probably costs more than a cheap airline but takes 3-5 days to travel something you could drive in 2.
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Apr 9, 2024 04:40
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The "Express" Bus from Boston to NYC makes a stop in Newton LOL.
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Apr 9, 2024 04:41
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I had a buddy, Zack, a good old Maryland boy, who took the Hound from ALBQ to DC to catch up to us. The poor fool.
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Apr 9, 2024 05:33
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in my early 20s i traveled a lot and took the grey hound a few times the only thing i remember is that it was cheaper than an airline then as for the food i think there were vending machines at the stations maybe?????
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Apr 9, 2024 05:41
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I seem to recall an episode of mythbusters where they test methods for beating lie detecting machines. apparently for people to "properly" lie they either need to benefit from it, or avoid punishment. in this case, it was either return on a 1st class flight, or return by bus. a bus trip is may be worse than chinese water torture.
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Apr 9, 2024 05:47
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I liked taking the acela between NYC and boston / DC / baltimore / philadelphia when I used to have to travel for work.
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Apr 9, 2024 05:59
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No, I'd rather eat a bullet, thanks.
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Apr 9, 2024 06:02
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the bus sucked make no mistake from my earlier post it was not an enjoyable experience
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Apr 9, 2024 06:08
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I took a Greyhound 1/3 of the way across the country. We stopped maybe every 4-5 hours at rest stops. They had places you could buy food and use the bathroom. It wasn't a bad trip, just tedious.
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Apr 9, 2024 06:08
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I got mugged my first 3 times in the NYC Port Authority bus station. Each one is a story, but now that I know Netflix will pay millions for this poo poo.... each mugging is a season.
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Apr 9, 2024 06:09
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ever since greyhound let that one guy decapitate that other guy I've always kind of side-eyed public transport
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Apr 9, 2024 06:13
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I've done Amtrak Vancouver -> Portland (Or) -> Chicago for some conferences. Got a sleeper car for the long haul. It was pretty chill. There was some cool desert river scenery in Washington State, then the Rockies (unfortunately some of the best parts at night). Then a whole lot of flat country. Lots of Mennonites on the train, which was interesting to watch. At one point we hit a different sect of Mennonites who were apparently allowed to wear coloured shirts... Oh and one middle-aged hippyish dude who asked to borrow my phone so he could arrange a ride with his lady friend at the weird-rear end small town he was stopping at. He had some story about being screwed over by the local sheriff and ending up in jail/unable to do his job or something. It sounded pretty rough, probably par for the course in small town America, and also potentially a whole lot of made-up BS. Who knows? But yeah freight takes priority, and the rails are super bumpy and rickety. The sleeper car bunks literally have a strap they recommend you use to avoid being thrown out in the night. Oh and at one point US Border Patrol got on the train and demanded everyone's papers. But I told them my passport was in my cabin and they were chill about it. I also stopped for a couple of days in Minneapolis, since I had a friend who was doing a postdoc there. I got to bike around Minneapolis a bunch (great bike infrastructure). Also it was Fourth of July, so we biked down to see the fireworks, which turned out to be one weird trick to beat the crowds. I've done long-ish train rides across Europe -- Gothenburg to Berlin and back, and Stockholm to Leipzig (basically the same route most of the way). There's a neat part when they load the entire train onto a ferry to go from Germany to Denmark. Those trips were all-day, started around 7am and ended 10pm, but also pretty chill. Oh I remember in the Copenhagen central station there was an elevator with a button labelled "Infart" (entrance), and someone had erased the 'n'. Done a few half-day trips by train across the UK too. Also pretty chill. For the bus, when I was 19 I took one to Cape Town, which is 1800km, ie "across the country". It was 23 hours long, stopped for meals at big rest stops with decent takeout places, and honestly a fine way to travel for someone in their late teens/early 20s. Oh, yeah, more recently I've taken the "Burner Bus" to Afrikaburn. That's about an eight hour overnight journey, but the last time I did it the bus was super rickety. Like there were chunks of rusty metal raining down on me from the roof while I was trying to sleep. The bus was going pretty slowly though, so I wasn't too stressed.
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Buce posted:greyhound must have been designed, from the ground up, as a punishment. that's just all there is to it. It essentially is. If you're poor, then this is your only real option, and they know it. Greyhound treats its customers as worse than poo poo, because they know they have nowhere else to go.
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Apr 9, 2024 06:22
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Bus, train or tane thats my motto
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Do long haul busses have power outlets nowadays? I feel like that would make all the difference.
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