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In the northeast it's not so bad. Greyhound runs mostly new-ish Prevosts with Wi-Fi and power outlets. Then you get Peter Pan on the northeast corridor with MCIs of various ages (including some brand new, nicely-equipped J4500s), but my favorite is New York Trailways with their Prevost H3-45s -- those are top-spec, top-of-the-line 12-foot tall (!) motorcoaches. Now that's how you travel.
(And would you believe that's a 2010 with a new front cap? This is one of the old ghetto ones!)
BTW GRALISTAIR, you should sign up for Greyhound Road Rewards -- you get a 10% coupon just for signing up!
Back when I was in school, I started a crowdfunding page and a blog to see if I could raise enough money for a one-way Greyhound ticket from Salt Lake City to New York. If I raised enough money, I would take Greyhound for the 3+ day journey through places like Cheyenne, Moline, and Elkhart. I also started an accompanying blog.
Unfortunately, a week into the project, Delta lowered their round-trip fare to something ridiculous (around $250 IIRC), and I flew instead.
-J.
(And would you believe that's a 2010 with a new front cap? This is one of the old ghetto ones!)
BTW GRALISTAIR, you should sign up for Greyhound Road Rewards -- you get a 10% coupon just for signing up!
Back when I was in school, I started a crowdfunding page and a blog to see if I could raise enough money for a one-way Greyhound ticket from Salt Lake City to New York. If I raised enough money, I would take Greyhound for the 3+ day journey through places like Cheyenne, Moline, and Elkhart. I also started an accompanying blog.
Unfortunately, a week into the project, Delta lowered their round-trip fare to something ridiculous (around $250 IIRC), and I flew instead.
-J.
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BTW - guess what I am drinking?
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George Dickel - there is a thread about it on the DL forum about Skyclubs removing Jack Daniels and replacing it with Dickel - so I had to try it. 
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/24554328-post135.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/24554328-post135.html
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Mar 23, 2015, 8:36 pm
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We rode Greyhound a couple times in 1998 when the clutch on my F-150 went out at Oshkosh. Having mastered clutchless shifting in my more more irresponsible high-school days, I was able to get the truck to a tire shop just north of the air show and arranged for a tow truck to haul it to a more appropriate shop to be repaired, then we walked across the street to the air show for the day. Afterwards we took a cab north & west to the next town out of Oshkosh, then hitchhiked back to our motel in central Wisconsin.
Next morning we hitchhiked to Tomah on I-94 & took the Greyhound back to Minneapolis. Ride was ok except that they didn't / wouldn't take my wife's luggage off in Minneapolis; her suitcase went all the way to Seattle & back.
When the clutch was fixed I took overnight buses back to Oshkosh via Milwaukee. One annoying DYKWIA (probably a Medallion level bus rider) with a wooden leg enjoyed pounding on his wooden foot with his cane until he turned it around 180 degrees & it was pointed backwards; then he'd pound on it some more & straighten it out.
Got back to the airshow on the final day in time to visit the museum but the air show itself had rained out that day.
Next morning we hitchhiked to Tomah on I-94 & took the Greyhound back to Minneapolis. Ride was ok except that they didn't / wouldn't take my wife's luggage off in Minneapolis; her suitcase went all the way to Seattle & back.
When the clutch was fixed I took overnight buses back to Oshkosh via Milwaukee. One annoying DYKWIA (probably a Medallion level bus rider) with a wooden leg enjoyed pounding on his wooden foot with his cane until he turned it around 180 degrees & it was pointed backwards; then he'd pound on it some more & straighten it out.
Got back to the airshow on the final day in time to visit the museum but the air show itself had rained out that day.
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Goerge Dickel - there is a thread about it on the DL forum about Skyclubs removing Jack Daniels and replacing it with Dickel - so I had to try it.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/24554328-post135.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/24554328-post135.html
... which seems to be a continuation of an ever downward trend in Delta's wine & liquor quality.
We used to enjoy walking into the STL
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Mar 24, 2015, 4:44 am
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We rode Greyhound a couple times in 1998 when the clutch on my F-150 went out at Oshkosh. Having mastered clutchless shifting in my more more irresponsible high-school days, I was able to get the truck to a tire shop just north of the air show and arranged for a tow truck to haul it to a more appropriate shop to be repaired, then we walked across the street to the air show for the day. Afterwards we took a cab north & west to the next town out of Oshkosh, then hitchhiked back to our motel in central Wisconsin.
Next morning we hitchhiked to Tomah on I-94 & took the Greyhound back to Minneapolis. Ride was ok except that they didn't / wouldn't take my wife's luggage off in Minneapolis; her suitcase went all the way to Seattle & back.
When the clutch was fixed I took overnight buses back to Oshkosh via Milwaukee. One annoying DYKWIA (probably a Medallion level bus rider) with a wooden leg enjoyed pounding on his wooden foot with his cane until he turned it around 180 degrees & it was pointed backwards; then he'd pound on it some more & straighten it out.
Got back to the airshow on the final day in time to visit the museum but the air show itself had rained out that day.
Next morning we hitchhiked to Tomah on I-94 & took the Greyhound back to Minneapolis. Ride was ok except that they didn't / wouldn't take my wife's luggage off in Minneapolis; her suitcase went all the way to Seattle & back.
When the clutch was fixed I took overnight buses back to Oshkosh via Milwaukee. One annoying DYKWIA (probably a Medallion level bus rider) with a wooden leg enjoyed pounding on his wooden foot with his cane until he turned it around 180 degrees & it was pointed backwards; then he'd pound on it some more & straighten it out.
Got back to the airshow on the final day in time to visit the museum but the air show itself had rained out that day.
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you can tell the gender of a weasel from what appears to be a distance of at least 20 feet? I don't know whether to be impressed or horrified