Greyhound

My return to India is just weeks away.
Now is a good time to jot down the uniquely American experiences one by one.

I visited New Jersey in winter of 2006. We were 4 roomies staying at Maple Shade. On the Christmas long weekend, we took a trip to New York. Our transport - a Greyhound bus. The service was pretty good as far as I can remember. The gentry was not too genteel. But it was a more or less comfortable (and affordable) journey to the Big Apple and that was all that mattered to us at that time.

In 'A Streetcar Named Desire' Stanley buys Blanche a one-way Greyhound ticket and Stella argues with him stating Blanche would not take the busride well.

In 'Money Can't Buy You Love', the heroine tells Patrick Dempsey of a common girlfriend - 'She has given more rides than the Greyhound' :)

I was planning on buying Greyhound tickets to the San Francisco airport from San Jose downtown before the trip to Vegas-Grand Canyon-Utah. Eventually, one of my colleagues dropped me off at the airport sparing me the bus ride.

Till date, these are my encounters with the Greyhound.