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   -=> Ward Dossche wrote to Dave Drum <=-   
      
    DD> If I read that right you were aq bus driver???? Hardly ever see passenger   
    DD> busses around here. Greyhound maintains a passenger terminal at a local   
    DD> auto salvage and towing firm. Trailways has disappearede. Lots of big   
    DD> charter busses like Windy City Tours.   
      
    WD> No. In 1972 I was in an exchange program not knowing where I was   
    WD> heading to. Just America. Arrived in New York and got a bus ticket to   
    WD> Great Falls Montana. A trailways bus Detroit Chicago Denver   
    WD> SaltLakeCity GreatFalls. There are more direct routes but to keep it   
    WD> cheap I was given a "See America" ticket and made the grand tour. 4   
    WD> days on a bus, I can write a (small) book about it. Crossing Nebraska   
    WD> end of June was so boring ... there is nothing, just fields with corn   
    WD> as far as the eye reaches.   
      
   Miles and miles of nothing but miles and miles.  Bv)=   
      
    WD> Also was in a GreatFalls LosAngeles trip, LosAngeles to Detroit and   
    WD> then to New York. Affordable but it takes so much time ... plus all the   
    WD> meals en-route plus drinks ... competes with airlines. But you see a   
    WD> lot, the perfect way to learn how big the USA really is.   
      
   I've made a few bus long-distance rides. But, truly, I do prefer riding   
   the rails. The food is better nand there aren't so  many smelly, crying    
   infants to "flavour" my journey.   
      
   And, as you say - the co$t is about the same.   
      
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