Folks, it's almost time to come home. Forgive me if I don't take the bus the whole way and come up with some alternate arrangement. It turns out lack of sleep and bad diet, coupled with lots of walking or maybe a bus trip each day -- yeah, that takes its toll.
Even copious amounts of water don't fix it. My body does not want to sit on a bus. So New Orleans will wait one more day (departure tomorrow).
Getting up at 3:30 a.m. (Central time) to write for MediaScout doesn't help either. I think it's not a bad post today, all things considered.
See you soon enough in a province. Rest assured, the countdown is on!
What am I thinking?!
My name is Nick Taylor-Vaisey. I have an undergrad degree in political science and a few clippings in newspapers and magazines around Canada. I live in Ottawa.
I saved some money this summer and, with minimal planning and as much spontaneity as I can muster, I am setting off on a 30-day bus voyage across (parts of) North America.
Ambitious, I know. How can anyone hope to appreciate Canada's east coast and America's eastern seaboard, gulf coast, and west coast while peering out the windows of a Greyhound bus?
Well, follow along and see how I do. I have a camera and expect to see a few friends along the way. There might even be some cameos.
Stay tuned.
I saved some money this summer and, with minimal planning and as much spontaneity as I can muster, I am setting off on a 30-day bus voyage across (parts of) North America.
Ambitious, I know. How can anyone hope to appreciate Canada's east coast and America's eastern seaboard, gulf coast, and west coast while peering out the windows of a Greyhound bus?
Well, follow along and see how I do. I have a camera and expect to see a few friends along the way. There might even be some cameos.
Stay tuned.
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7 comments:
Sympathies, young Mr. Nick. I remember a long, arduous bus trip from Halifax to Toronto, with a 4:00 a.m. stop in Edmunston where the temperature was around two Celcius, and a desire to stand up and walk for about a week thereafter. Hey! Have you considered Amtrak. The train is fast and fun!
I have! Unfortunately, trains from the south to the north are not entirely convenient. There is one from NOLA to Chicago, and then over to Detroit, but its a combined 30-hour trip. Less bumpy and a bit shorter, but maybe not worth the cost compared to the (pre-paid) bus.
The fact that you are still in Austin is a good thing for me, Nick. Look at the posts you did that showed us more of Austin and Texas. By now most of your followers know that g.douglas and bob are brothers (father and uncle) and that their mother always said that out of something not so good always came something good, so out of some fatigue and "busphobia" comes more of your great insights.
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot
Gordon is too deep!!
OK. I hear you about costs and detours and the like. But on a train you can walk to the canteen car, or stand between cars and look out the window. The food may be garbage and just as unhealthy as anything from an I-86 truck stop. But you can indeed walk about more.
We are of course but equal opportunity aversion-builders, who can make you just as train-o-phobic as bus-o-phobic. And we have a secret (well, once-secret) commission from the airlines to create Pavlovian responses to ground trans-portation. But you are built of tougher stuff than me, who would have put the Greyhound in a kennel somewhere around Memphis and would have started looking around for a Jaguar.
In conversations I have these days that happen to veer to the topic of one or another US state, I consistently bring up your photos/videos as a (2nd-degree) connection I have to that area. The more places you go to the more I bring your stuff up, just statistically. It's getting ridiculous!
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