ever taken a greyhound bus across country{USA}? looking for advice

all over... ive lived in about 50 different homes since birth and im only 31 so do the math hahaha.... yeah all over MA, CT, even some time in Maine growing weed. mainly boston but did my schooling in metro west county.

I worked at a Sewage Treatment Plant. They call shit water GREY WATER if you catch my drift

If u do it just don’t stray far from the Terminals

Have you been to Fitchburg. Used to go there in my childhood. They used to have different colored water streaming through town because of the Paper Mill.

I know MA. Many of my brothers and sisters went to school in Boston. STill have family there..are you old enough to remember FILENE'S bargain basement in Boston?

yeah, this^ i hear you dude... ah well. im pretty much ready to move and once we get this stimulus its pretty much game time.

holy shit, i am barely old enough to remember filene's basement. you remember spags? it was like the dirty version of.

ive been to f-burg a few times yeah.... not a lot great happing over there honestly... as with most of the mill towns, Lynn notably... yeah they kind of all suck huh?
well cool to know a fellow new englander :) thank you for the replies

Last Edited by Plato II on 03/09/2021 09:34 PM

Ohhh...you're only 31 so you wouldn't know about FILENE'S bargain basement lol

It's very uncomfortable, but doable.

The bus was stopped in some backwater town, where police got on and searched for drugs, contraband, or whatever.

This was in the eighties, long before TSA.

shit i even went to the last celtics game they plaed on the parquet floor. my mom let me skip school to go see the game.

meanwhile my class did a community service learning field trip to make lunch for the worcester firefighters who had just gone thru a major tragedy. HAH.... fifth graders serving lunch was not up to code but, oh well. i wasnt there so who cares. game was excellent and then they tore up the floor after that game. replaced with some other material i forget what.
i remember filenes and a bunch of other stuff thats gone now hah

Last Edited by Plato II on 03/09/2021 09:37 PM

I will never take a bus again. 36 hours from Detroit to Tampa. Lots of stops and changing buses. Just when you fall asleep, you have to wake up and change buses. I got stuck next to an immigrant worker coming from working in the fields. Literally smelled like he crapped in the field and just left the shit stuck in his crack. One hour of that awful smell. I had a fear of flying before that bus trip. That trip literally cured my fear of flying. I fly everywhere now.

Yeah...I used to go to Filene's bargain basement once a month with my mom. Used to try on clothes right on the spot in the store as there were no changing rooms lol. Yeah..I've been to SPags in Worcester lol

My grandfather was a dental technician in Fitchburg. They called him the "Einstein of Fitchburg" 'cause he invented a machine that made dentures. Yeah the paper mills made the water pretty disgusting

I grew up in S.Burlington VT and would go to MA all the time. New England ain't what it used to be so I've heard

the bus trip will probably suck major balls but oh well if anyone messes with me i will drag them off CCTV view and break their face with gloves on and get back on the bus. fuck any enemies. the bus is doing me a favor.


and, not to mention, as a faithful Gnostic believer....
i trust the demiurge to provide safe passage,
as both he and i know,
this is what must come to pass.
i am a traveler from the east
who must return to his home.

OP: you will have plenty of chances to toke up at reststops. Like classic rock concerts, it is a thing where people look the other way and no one is surprised should you choose to not be completely out of sight when lighting up. It might sound sketchy, but you'll see what i mean.

Do not get too excited about sitting solo. Buses and trains stopped doing that sort of thing months ago.

I did San Francisco to nyc and must say it was much more of a romantic idea than tubular reality. I suggest both nose plugs and earplugs. Prepare for the proverbial crying infant and room temp iq tacos shouting in Spanish on their welfare phones. Prepare for everyone getting out at the gas stations next to McDonalds and everyone brining their food on board. That shit was the most disgusting part of it all for me. But then i actively despise fast food and i think was perpetually the only one who did not ever partake.

I got a ton of reading done. The scenery is nice but we are also talking like a hundred hours of it here. Not all can concentrate on a filthy bus, but if you can bring a good two books you have been meaning to read or reread for ages.

Best part was getting across country, and in my care into a good bar for a beer with a friend. After one all the exhaustion of the journey knocked me out and i went off to sleep for twelve hours... But hot damn that was a memorable beer.

In the 1970s I went to concerts at the Forum. Boston and Styx...you wouldn't know them..would you?

At the Styx concert when we came out we used the subway and A BLIZZARD had been going on about 1 hour. Everybody from the concert that went to use the subway got in a snowball fight...lol

From No. Cal to MA. via Tx ?

You got a map of the route ?

I'll be pulling for you,but I need a laugh.

Please post the route.

ohhh no thats talking before my time but sounds awesome though
one time i rented an apartment in allston that was converted from a funeral home. so fricken haunted hah. oh then went to rehab up in salem for a month and hat to take the train every day out of brookline..... OMG it sucked ass. and plus salem is haunted too, we used to also go there for a field trip every year during private school

oh its all fucked up they have me going from eureka to san diego then thru tejas... up thru the I states, into PA then NY then home. its crazy dude its gonna be quite a trek. i wanna pickup some jerky made from an animal while in texas.

Be careful not to befriend anyone on your ride. I had a girl who I thought was really nice strike up a conversation with me, then sit next to me, only to steal my ticket out of my bag.

wear a raincoat

oh, true that. i usually have to, as i have a propensity for making it rain on dem hoes.... such is the lyfe of a gangster i suppose.

naaaah, he'll end up in chicago. that is where they are
going to kill him.

Crazy shit goes on in the back and that's where the toilet is, so.........

Lol...It was awesome seeing Boston and Styx at the Forum. The snowball fight and blizzard when we left from the subway was fun also.

I had a brother going to BU and one going to Northeastern. I also had a friend going to Wellesley. My mom went to Simmons business college and my dad went to Harvard.

I also have alot of family in Connecticut and not only MA. I have a sister in Sommerville

If you wanna say hello to me I'M IN SAN DIEGO!

just reminding you of this.
you can walk around on a train. you just sit on a bus
for days.

it'll look like this.. no quarter given. instead of guns, i'll use my dick as a weapon

train is so much more comfortable, cheaper and faster

Here is my email if you wanna say hello in San Diego. That's if you have a long layover in San Diego as Greyhound is shit

nobody10(at)opentrash(dot)com

I'm the guy that knows much about MA

well, you cant beat the price of Free. and... lets face it, some of these are wise warnings but im not a little bitchass, i can hold my own and its gonna be fine


unless i die

Oh..I see what this is....ugh huh

OP, on Greyhound webiste it goes straight Interstate 80. Who are you playing?