I took the Greyhound from Vancouver to Calgary in the late 90's after a summer of tree planting.
It was some of the most beautiful scenery I had ever seen on that drive. The bus was air conditioned. Everyone on board was super friendly. They showed a movie! Jumanji with Robin Williams! We stopped at Subway and I got a footlong meatball sub, which was so delicious.
It was a really great trip at a super affordable price. I decided Greyhound was the way to go!
A few years later I was living in Dallas and needed to get to Washington DC. It was really cheap and only 3 days on the bus, and I'd never seen the Southern US!
There was no movie. There were a lot of drugs that others were using/had used. There was a policeman to escort us from the bus to the terminal in Atlanta so we weren't murdered. I always tried to sit next to an older lady so I wouldn't get shanked, and my opening line was always to ask about her grandkids. It worked. We stopped at a Subway, and the driver left a good percentage of the passengers there because they were past the 15 min prison rules for breaks.
DC was amazing. I flew home on a credit card and worked a 2nd job to pay it off. Worth it to never set foot on a Greyhound again.
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