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Yes, long-distance bus rides are the ****ing worst. Longest I've done is 28 hours and I'm not looking to top that.
^ Yeah, they are quite an endurance test: my max has been about 24 hours.
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Originally Posted by Plankton
It was 1986, I had a one-way ticket to LA from Chicago on a Trailways bus for $99. I gave my GF a smooch goodbye and off I went seeking life as a guitar player on the west coast. The trip took 3 days. 3 days into the depths of hell. Screaming babies, incessant coughing, and the smell of rotting flesh combined with almost dying in the wee hours of the morning just missing going over a cliff some where in the Rocky mountains made for one extremely UNromantic method of getting ones self to somewhere else far away. Never again. Who ever wrote those songs needs to be charged, fined, and jailed for fraud.
^ Thanks for dis-abusing me of my romantic notions. Your experience reminds me simultaneously of the Simon & G'funkel song, America, and this experience that a friend of mine had:-
From northern Europe, esp in the winter months, there are various travel companies that promise to get you down to the warmth of the Med by non-stop bus. It's a cheap and appealing notion when you're fed up with the cold weather, so my friend paid for a window seat on one such bus. He was feeling quite content with his escape until, somewhere in the Alps, the guy sitting next to him nodded up the aisle of the bus and told my friend, "The driver. He sleep."
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@ Smoke and Mirrors: Pity you never made it to Venice. That to me is the prettiest, most wonderful city I've ever seen. When you see it for the first time, you are faced with this conundrum: how can you possibly have a huge city without a single road in it? Here are some of the picturesque solutions:-
__________________ "Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough." - Sybille Bedford, 1953
i travel a lot between california and wyoming, usually by driving through nevada, utah, and idaho. aside from that i've been to pa once when i was 12 and the only thing i remember is that i packed too much denim for that amount of humidity and when i flew into newark i thought it smelled bad. still haven't been to the pacific northwest, and haven't gone more than a couple hundred miles out of the bay area in any direction. oh i went to arizona and ate mushrooms in the grand canyon once lol.
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Originally Posted by The Batlord
I know what real life is, I've been living in it for well over a decade
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Originally Posted by jadis
WWWP is pretty but should be cancelled (digital blackface)
would you be interested in knowing the cheapest way to travel
^ Yes, I'd be interested - interested to see if your answer is one of these:-
i) walking, ii) cycling, iii) sedan delivery, iii) escorting packages for DHL
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Originally Posted by wolverinewolfweiselpigeon
.... aside from that i've been to pa once when i was 12 ...
^ I'm guessing pa is a place, not a person??
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Originally Posted by Plankton
It was 1986, I had a one-way ticket to LA from Chicago on a Trailways bus for $99. I gave my GF a smooch goodbye and off I went seeking life as a guitar player on the west coast.
^ Plankton gets off the bus in LA:-
__________________ "Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough." - Sybille Bedford, 1953
...the guy sitting next to him nodded up the aisle of the bus and told my friend, "The driver. He sleep."
Exactly what happened to me, but I think the driver woke up just in time to see we were about to plunge to our death, then swerved in time. This jolted most people awake, but they were still unaware of how close they had just come to being statistics. I was awake the entire time and screaming inside my head as I saw the cliff approaching.
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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic
^ Plankton gets off the bus in LA:-
Pretty much sums it up, but more accurately would be a duffel bag and a guitar case. I spent the next two weeks on Santa Monica beach playing tunes for change so I could eat. Then I joined the service. I'd do it all again too.
and when i flew into newark i thought it smelled bad.
This is the exact reason NJ gets a bad reputation but it's totally fair to think Newark smells bad because it really really does.
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I did a lot of travelling over the last two years. Took nine weeks off and went to Europe for a solo trip. I hit the the UK, Ireland, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Iceland.
Last year I drove across the country by myself. Took the southern route. Took me six days. Had a blast. Lived in California for three months and drove up to Canada to camp for ten days by myself and then d rove back to NJ through Canada up to the great lakes where I dipped back in and stopped in Chicago.
Some people have issues going to the movies by themselves. I have traveled half the earth by myself.
Thanks for dis-abusing me of my romantic notions. Your experience reminds me simultaneously of the Simon & G'funkel song, America, and this experience that a friend of mine had:-
I'm guessing pa is a place, not a person??
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