Taking a Greyhound bus for the second time in my life.

The most sensible way to get from one place to another involves a quick look at the options available, including where you get picked up and where you get dropped off.
In Gon's case Greyhound made the most sense, so there he went.
No worse than the typical regional airline flight without the security hassle or need to possibly gate check a bag and wait for it at the other end.
When we travel in the continental US I always look at both Amtrak and bus transportation, and so far air transportation always wins for convenience over the marginal cost, but there may come a trip where rail or road makes more sense than air, or just driving,
 
If I rate public transportation,

European 250 km/hr inter city trains 1st class 10.0

Amtrak coach outside the Northeast corridor 2.0

Long distance inter city bus 1.0
 
At the end of high school, 4 of us got a month+a week long greyhound pass, and went from Ontario to B.C. toured around there for a bit, and back. Back then they had lots of routes and times so it was pretty easy to go between cities when you wanted to. The only bad bus was the first one, for the first leg of 20 hrs from Toronto to Thunder Bay, which had me worried for the rest of the trip.... But we switched to a bus with nicer seats in Thunder Bay and they all were pretty good after that. We tried to book our buses at night so we'd save on motels if we didn't know anyone in a city. Good fun for young people who can sleep anywhere!

Greyhound folded up in Canada in 2021, so now its a bit of a hodge podge of regional bus companies, but I guess its better than nothing.
 
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Thanks for posting the song! One of the lines in the song was "it took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw". I did look at hitchhiking as a COA, but Greyhound seemed like the very best COA.
 
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Should have planned better. The El Paso Chihuahua are playing tonight. From the outside the stadium looked really modern and nice.

I didn't know baseball was still going on, maybe a Mexican league game?
 
In 1998 I rode a Greyhound from Hudson,Wi to Dàllas,tx. Talk about an adventure! It smelled of pee and sweaty people. It had a 2 stroke Detroit Diesel( Screamin Deamon, Green leaker) with a manual 5 speed.

After about 15 minutes I was ready to get off that loud ,stinky bus. The noise from the engine below my seat was obnoxious.

I doubt they had very many running that drive train in 1998.
 
I took a bus from Rosarito Beach to Tijuana when a friend’s VW diesel seized. When the buses no longer pass U.S. road safety inspections they sell them and run ‘em down there, I remember thinking at the time. So many rattles.
I’ve done Greyhound, as an early teen.
 
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I rode many buses in the 80's and 90's. It was going downhill by the tail end of the 90's. Today, Phila. doesn't even have a bus station, they pickup and dropoff outdoors. I always thought just imagine how many runaways used bus travel and wound up in New York's Port Authority.

When I was first married my wife still worked in Manhattan. She took the Bolt Bus every day from Phila 30th St. to NY Penn Sta. Talk about long hours. But the way she described it reminded me of Sandra Bullock in Speed. Everyone knew each other and it turned into a party express.
 
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Took a 4 hour bus Monday in Thailand to a beach town, it was comfortable and nice. saw a few Hiluxes snorkeling and a cool tractor getting gas and towing a swamp boat. Its monsoon season still and raining every morning but the afternoons are pretty.

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