From: grammatim@verizon.net   
      
   On Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 6:55:23 PM UTC-4, houn...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:   
   > On 10.04.19 20:14, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:   
   > > On Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 6:51:50 PM UTC-4, houn...@yahoo.co.uk   
      
   > >> I think people know that taking a bus long-distance truly sucks --   
   > >> simple as that.   
   > > Another Greyhound ad:   
   > > https://books.google.com/books?id=BE0EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA127&dq=   
   ife%20greyhound&pg=PA127#v=onepage&q&f=false   
   > > Here is a photo essay on the life of a Greyhound driver:   
   > > https://books.google.com/books?id=0kkEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA82&dq=l   
   fe%20greyhound%20bus&pg=PA82#v=onepage&q&f=false   
   > > Two page ad on the scenicruiser luxury   
   > > https://books.google.com/books?id=RVYEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA56&dq=l   
   fe%20scenicruiser&pg=PA56#v=onepage&q&f=false   
   >   
   > Nice adverts, I will agree.   
   >   
   > 'Still doesn't change the fact that taking the bus for any long-distance   
   > routes did -- and still does -- completely suck.   
      
   Last March (a year ago), I took Megabus to Pittsburgh ($40 round trip,   
   IIRC). It was not unpleasant; about 8 hr, with a half-hour lunch break   
   at an old-fashioned truck stop. Electrical outlets, and room enough to   
   open my laptop, so I watched a movie. The only passenger stop was in State   
   College, location of Penn State University but also where you'd change   
   for the bus to Chicago. (My plane trip to Chicago this March was so   
   unpleasant, and so expensive, that I'm seriously considering the Megabus   
   the next time I have to go there, even though the one time I took Amtrak   
   -- coach seat -- it was intolerable. [in 1974 I'd shared a sleeper and   
   that wasn't bad, but sleepers now cost far more than the airplane.] I   
   hadn't been on a domestic flight in nearly 10 years. Previously when I   
   had a meeting in Pittsburgh I took the train, but the schedule of the   
   one train a day had changed so it wouldn't work out.)   
      
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