And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
1966 discharged from the Army at Ft Hamilton rode one to Colorado. Full, because the airlines were on strike. Just sucked it up and made the best of the trip.
Took a Greyhound from Albuquerque to Payson, Arizona five years ago. Bought a BMW Z3 to drive home in. Essentially, it was a nursing home on wheels. Everybody on that bus was in need of immediate medical attention.
1969 bus trip from Birmingham Al to Naval Air Station Marietta GA to be inducted into the U.S.Navy took 12 hours [which would have been 4 hours by car]. The only time I saw the interstate was when the bus crossed over it going from gas station [bus stop] to gas station...Anchors Aweigh and First in Defense CVA59.
I spent 37 years in the airline industry. Sometimes required getting to work by bus. Missable experience. I don’t know why these companies are still in business.
Rode a Greyhound, from Boston to Boise in 74 on leave at Xmas . 3 1/2 days sitting in one spot on a hard assed uncomfortable seat...49 yrs later still suffering from the induced roids ! Flew back however...
CW, how is it that these shysters advertising the ability to make $200 per hour working at home can post a clickable live link but when I post a link to a video or whatever it's always dormant?
Up until Covid hit, I rode the bus from Everett WA to Vancouver, BC regularly. Clean, comfy and cheap. Short ride, I know, but even the border crossing was fast.
Whenever I recall this memory, folks always seem to get mad at me, and accuse me of lying!
As a white man, I grew up during the so-called "Civil" Rights Movement in a small racially segregated Southern community.
Prior to my overseas service, when I was a new soldier in the United States Army, studying electronics at the Signal Corps school in Fort Gordon, Georgia, I rode a Greyhound bus north from (?) to (?), which was filled mostly with negro passengers, causing me to feel rather wary.
(i.e., back in those days, the polite terms were "negro" and "colored", as they did not want to be called, "black".)
I learned from other passengers that in the South, the unwritten rule was that negroes took the Greyhound bus, while white folks took the Trailways bus, as both bus lines followed the same routes.
Therefore, all of my subsequent bus trips were via Trailways, whose passengers were indeed, mostly white, with cleaner, more comfortable buses.
I rode one from Ok City to Denver. Awful experience with some shady looking/acting characters. It was cramped and uncomfortable.
ReplyDelete1966 discharged from the Army at Ft Hamilton rode one to Colorado. Full, because the airlines were on strike. Just sucked it up and made the best of the trip.
ReplyDeleteI haven't ridden the silver dog since I was in the Air Farce in the 70s. It's travel at a leisurely pace, fer shure.
DeleteTook a Greyhound from Albuquerque to Payson, Arizona five years ago. Bought a BMW Z3 to drive home in. Essentially, it was a nursing home on wheels. Everybody on that bus was in need of immediate medical attention.
ReplyDelete1969 bus trip from Birmingham Al to Naval Air Station Marietta GA to be inducted into the U.S.Navy took 12 hours [which would have been 4 hours by car]. The only time I saw the interstate was when the bus crossed over it going from gas station [bus stop] to gas station...Anchors Aweigh and First in Defense CVA59.
ReplyDeleteCoconut palms, mountains in the background... you could ride one all the way to Hawaii?
ReplyDeleteI spent 37 years in the airline industry. Sometimes required getting to work by bus. Missable experience. I don’t know why these companies are still in business.
ReplyDeleteRode a Greyhound, from Boston to Boise in 74 on leave at Xmas .
ReplyDelete3 1/2 days sitting in one spot on a hard assed uncomfortable seat...49 yrs later still suffering from the induced roids !
Flew back however...
I rode the dawg from san diego ca to fort myers fl, 5 days, back in 1980 and my ass still hurts. Boredom was the worst part.
ReplyDelete"The Smartest Distance Between Two Points"... that right there is marketing genius.
ReplyDeleteCW, how is it that these shysters advertising the ability to make $200 per hour working at home can post a clickable live link but when I post a link to a video or whatever it's always dormant?
ReplyDeleteUp until Covid hit, I rode the bus from Everett WA to Vancouver, BC regularly. Clean, comfy and cheap. Short ride, I know, but even the border crossing was fast.
ReplyDeleteWhenever I recall this memory, folks always seem to get mad at me, and accuse me of lying!
ReplyDeleteAs a white man, I grew up during the so-called "Civil" Rights Movement in a small racially segregated Southern community.
Prior to my overseas service, when I was a new soldier in the United States Army, studying electronics at the Signal Corps school in Fort Gordon, Georgia, I rode a Greyhound bus north from (?) to (?), which was filled mostly with negro passengers, causing me to feel rather wary.
(i.e., back in those days, the polite terms were "negro" and "colored", as they did not want to be called, "black".)
I learned from other passengers that in the South, the unwritten rule was that negroes took the Greyhound bus, while white folks took the Trailways bus, as both bus lines followed the same routes.
Therefore, all of my subsequent bus trips were via Trailways, whose passengers were indeed, mostly white, with cleaner, more comfortable buses.