On Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 9:35:19 AM UTC-4, Peter T. Daniels wrote:   
      
   > 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.)   
      
   It's an interesting trip.  I wonder if a 'real' Greyhound   
   trip would be better than their discount brand.   
      
   Unfortunately, many Amk LD trains lost food service except for   
   a lousy cold boxed meal.   
      
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