Our home for the next three days!!! #Greyhound #LongestBusRideInAmericapic.twitter.com/mrYqpsorba
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Stops on the way-too-long New York to Philly leg are Newark, Mount Laurel, and Camden. We did a really depressing industrial deviation to Newark; the bus was near-empty until then, but now a ton of people are getting on.
The amount of time it took to deviate to Camden was definitely not worth it for the two people who got off and zero people who got on. Especially when PATCO to Philly is $1.40.
"Next stop Pittsburgh." ... "Negative. Next stop is uhhh Philly. I skipped ahead."
Philly! 63 hours to go! For some reason, Greyhound gave us separate tickets from New York to Philly, and Philly to LA; the driver did NOT like that and didn't give us a reboarding pass. Lots of confusion but we've made it back on! Still sans reboarding pass...pic.twitter.com/x9c1d8K2F0
Also, kudos to the Greyhound scheduler who decided it would be a good idea to have two buses heading toward Pittsburgh depart at the same time from the same city at the same gate. No confusion resulting from that at all.
So the stop after Philly is "Norristown King Prussia E". We make our way down tiny roads to the SEPTA Norristown station, when the driver makes an announcement...
"To the one person who's getting off here, where is the Greyhound stop?" ... "Hello? I'm asking where the Greyhound stop is." Passenger: "It's near the mall. It's not here. It's like a park and ride."
Now the driver is going around in circles trying to figure out where to go. I wonder how much time this is going to cost us down the road...
I should also point out that Norristown is the stupidest stop ever. It's only served by our bus going toward LA, and another bus going from LA to New York. And there's just one person getting off there???? All this trouble for one person? Eliminate this thing.
The driver is now calling the Greyhound employee hotline to figure out where to go. Enjoying the smooth jazz of the hold music!
We're shouting out directions to the driver to help her out.
Okay, rescind the previous rant: there are, like, 25 people waiting here for us! Guess this is a necessary stop after all, even if it was a real rollercoaster ride to get here.
Looks like a lot of Pitt students heading back to school.
We're waiting in Harrisburg. It's a full house - a lady got on and said "One ticket, one seat! If you have a child who doesn't have a ticket, they're either sitting on your lap, or I'm making them buy a ticket!" Also something weird about paying for empty seats next to you? Uh...
Leaving Harrisburg ten minutes late, but we've made up the lost time from Norristown. Now it'll feel like we're really moving: nonstop to Pittsburgh from here, aside from a rest stop!pic.twitter.com/0HFUjYTV15
We've just made the realization that if we were to turn around and drive directly to New York, it would take three and a half hours. It's been over seven.
WE WERE SCHEDULED TO STOP AT THE SIDELING HILL REST STOP, WHICH HAS AN AUNTIE ANNE'S WHERE I COULD GET A CINNAMON PRETZEL!!!!! BUT BUT BUT WE JUST SKIPPED ITTTTTTTTT :'(
So now we're hoping we'll just drive to Pittsburgh without making ANY rest stops. At least then we'd arrive there early and have time to go somewhere cool for dinner.
We ended up stopping at the North Somerset Service Plaza. Luckily we should still get to Pittsburgh on time, assuming we leave here when the driver said we would.pic.twitter.com/zqeysDtrG5
"If you don't get on the bus by 4:45, you're getting left behind." And yet we've yet to leave...
Things accomplished in Pittsburgh: -Brushing our teeth (yay!) -Getting dinner -Experiencing a morale boost from walking in the cold for a bit
We finally got reboarding passes! But the gate attendant took Nathan's in order to read out the number and then disappeared. Nathan tried to explain the situation to the driver and she was very upset. So...now only I have a reboarding pass. They seem to be cursed on this trip.
But hey, at least we got our worst bus selfie so far. We were supposed to have left 11 minutes ago and we've only just finished boarding the reboarders...pic.twitter.com/5JXioHaCes
We've departed Pittsburgh with a refueled bus and a new driver. Next stop is Cambridge, which is only served by this bus and one from Phoenix to New York!
We just pulled over onto the side of the highway. The driver got out without saying anything and went to the back of the bus. Everyone heard a thump. The driver came back. We're off again. Okay.
We're in West Virginia! Finally leaving Pennsylvania with our first state line crossing in about 10 hours! And it's the panhandle of West Virginia, so we'll be heading into Ohio in about ten minutes. Making progress!
The Cambridge, OH stop is just at a gas station. We're supposed to spend five minutes here, but it's being treated as an unofficial rest stop, despite the fact that we're 40 minutes late and counting. "Don't smoke near the gas pumps." Sage advice.pic.twitter.com/4W68y5KjZs
Nathan: "This bus is incapable of being on time. Every time we make it up, they just wait and we end up late again." Greyhound schedulers need to realize that their schedule does not match up with reality. If every trip treats Cambridge as a rest stop, make it a rest stop.
As Day 1 of the #LongestBusRideInAmerica comes to a close, we leave Columbus just 8 minutes late. Nathan and I used our reboarding power to both get windows so we could get some sleep on the 3-hour stretch before a layover in Indianapolis at 2:25 AM. Blech. Goodnight for now!pic.twitter.com/J8VhbT9pGY
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