Subj : Re: Boeing buys out of a
To   : Ward Dossche
From : Dave Drum
Date : Sun Jun 01 2025 10:50:36

-=> 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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