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Posted on 07-01-12 01:53:34 AM Link | Quote
No, not the movie. Otherwise, this would be in the wrong forum!

What would be your most enjoyable method of transportation when you're traveling somewhere far from home? Any neat or interesting stories of such? If you've never traveled, what mode of transportation outside of your hometown would you like to take and why?

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Posted on 07-01-12 01:55:16 AM Link | Quote
Car, cant be bothered with the others.

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Posted on 07-01-12 01:56:28 AM Link | Quote
My only two experiences for far travel was by car or by plane.

I preferred the latter. Because flying is cool.

I supposed I could say flying in a military transport is cooler too. Even though that one I got on only did a loop up through Washington then back down.

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Posted on 07-01-12 01:56:45 AM Link | Quote
I like trains, if it wasn't for how slow they are... (imagine if the US had a proper high-speed rail system...)

No interesting stories come to mind at the moment, though.

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Posted on 07-01-12 01:59:31 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Nicole
I like trains, if it wasn't for how slow they are... (imagine if the US had a proper high-speed rail system...)

I'm told trains are meant to be a longer journey, as you're supposed to enjoy the trip and not just await the destination. At least, with services like AM Track, with their citizen/dining cars.

I kind of want to ride a higher class train. With all the amenities. Cross the states in luxury. Would be even cooler if it were a steam train, even if potentially 'slower' or 'dangerous'.

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Posted on 07-01-12 02:06:48 AM Link | Quote
I drive with a car.
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Posted on 07-01-12 02:28:31 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by dotUser
Originally posted by Nicole
I like trains, if it wasn't for how slow they are... (imagine if the US had a proper high-speed rail system...)

I'm told trains are meant to be a longer journey, as you're supposed to enjoy the trip and not just await the destination. At least, with services like AM Track, with their citizen/dining cars.

I kind of want to ride a higher class train. With all the amenities. Cross the states in luxury. Would be even cooler if it were a steam train, even if potentially 'slower' or 'dangerous'.


That and buses.

I personally feel everyone should take at least one long bus trip in their lives. Not really for the horror stories, but because it feels more like an adventurous endeavor than the others.

I did go by Amtrak once when I went from Seattle to Portland, OR. That was a nice ride.

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Planes are okay. I just hate the landing part. Take offs are alright and I've gotten used to them, but landings....I dunno...

Trains, I've never been on.

Cars, we have one and my hubby uses it the most, which makes me ride my bike to work. Over the years I started to get super nervous while in the car when someone else is driving. Very annoying.

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Posted on 07-01-12 03:15:36 AM Link | Quote
I need my ears to stop popping on planes. But I've only flown... 4 times? Florida when I was young and Toronto/London in Ontario a few times?

I would like to take the train from Toronto to Vancouver one day. Would be a nice experience with tons of great scenery and a comfy first-class ride to boot.

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Posted on 07-01-12 04:05:58 AM Link | Quote
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I prefer flying. I never took a train ride, and sitting in a car for a long period of time sucks.

Also landing and taking off are the most fun part. It's cool being suddenly flung forward and mocing really fast, then you lift off the ground.

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Posted on 07-01-12 04:14:39 AM Link | Quote
I love cars because that's the mode of transportation used by Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson. It's the way to be on the road, baby.

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Posted on 07-01-12 06:03:03 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by paulguy
sitting in a car for a long period of time sucks.
I agree, but once you go on a road trip halfway across the US, you change your definition of "a long period of time".

I've been on a plane twice, but I was so young I don't remember it. I've never been on a train. If I'm going far from home, it'll usually be by car. I can take the bus to Seattle from here, but that's about it.

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Posted on 07-01-12 02:07:08 PM Link | Quote
Best movie, especially the rant at the car dealership

I spend a LOT of time on buses because I don't have a car. My dad does but, amusingly, he's a bus driver, so he's never home!

Of course, I hate buses. They're designed for midgets, so whenever I try and sit down, I either have to sit with my legs spread so far apart that they're in danger of ripping open, or sitting sideways so my legs are blocking the aisle. Alternatively, I sit in the disabled/elderly seats, which makes me feel like a douche.

And that's when the buses actually turn up... not the driver's fault. Most of the drivers are good. But when a bus struggles to go up a slight incline, you know they need a tune-up. Fucking Arriva...

For long car trips, as long as I have something to play, I'm fine. Trains are cool too. I remember one train trip where I read through the entirety of Barry Trotter (Harry Potter parody. Buy it, read it, love it.). I've been on a plane twice, once to Lanzarote and back. Pretty scared, but as soon as we took off the first time, I was fine. Slept on my wrist on the way back and then made the mistake of moving it. Fucking ow.

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Posted on 07-01-12 04:22:44 PM (last edited by Gabu at 07-01-12 04:23:02 PM) Link | Quote
Originally posted by Rick
I personally feel everyone should take at least one long bus trip in their lives. Not really for the horror stories, but because it feels more like an adventurous endeavor than the others.




Reminds me that I STILL need to upload that travelouge I made. Maybe I'll just have the sketches in and then hopefully that'll be enough motivation to make them look nice and shiny and on a computer.

But yeah, buses really get a bad rap from a lot of people, when really they aren't that bad at all. Sure, I had one horror story with the bus toilet the first time I had to use it, but they clean those on a regular basis, and all my other trips there were much more tolerable, especially considering that I NEEDED to use a bathroom and was in a LOT of GI pain (Now I realize it was all the caffeine I was having via energy drinks that was causing... congestion, so to speak)

I was even on a Greyhound too, which really get a bad rap from the general populace. Gets a lot of negative reviews online, but like Rick said, the right mindset can have it all be a great adventure. I was only about thirty minutes late to where I needed to go, but that was all because of a traffic accident. And on the way back, when I really didn't care when I'd get back, it was an hour. I even had a driver on one of my buses in New Mexico admit that it was his first time driving this route and ended up going the wrong direction twice before going the right way.

I plan on taking the bus again, both because it's the cheapest option I have and because I'll have an all-new set of adventures awaiting! (the route to San Francisco goes through Wyoming, Utah and Nevada. Should be interesting enough. At least it's not Nebraska.)

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Posted on 07-01-12 05:12:25 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Gabu


I was even on a Greyhound too, which really get a bad rap from the general populace. Gets a lot of negative reviews online, but like Rick said, the right mindset can have it all be a great adventure.


I tempted fate big time by going to ePinions, copy-pasting all the comments (mostly negative about Greyhound) into Microsoft Word, and then bringing it with me as reading material on the bus and reading it.

Granted, many of those were of horror stories from years ago. They really seemed to have cleaned up their act quite a bit. However, I haven't used them in a while. It's been more cost effective for me to take a different bus system.

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I rode the bus to Nevada--the Desert bus--repeatedly.

The first time was a ride back home. And then, the person who sat next to me was completely freaked out. They had no clue how to ride the bus, they were trembling horribly... and I offered to let them use my Cell Phone, only for a strange story to unfold.

The person was going back to their father's house, but apparently something was wrong. They were on drugs, smoking despite being only 17, and didn't want to see their father either.

Their parents tried to contact him but he refused to do so. My cell phone became a nexus for this crisis. I got off the bus at my destination, relieved that I had gotten away from it... only I hadn't.

The kid eventually wound up in Los Angeles, where he saw his father, went nuts, ran out into the freeway and was killed by a Semi truck. I was the second to last person to see that person alive, and his mother called me. I wound up being a virtual shoulder to cry on, and had to explain that I had tried to get through to him but he was... broken, so I had done all I could to help him but in the end outside of physically restraining him I couldn't have stopped him from riding all the way to Los Angeles and then ultimately comitting suicide.

So... yeah. I've already seen the worst of it.

I had a really good ride once, too.

An older man sat next to me, and it turned out he was going to Las Vegas to sell his audio equipment to help fund his son's school stuff. He and I discussed college and philosophy the entire way to Las Vegas, so much so the bus driver told us to shut up because we were too loud for him. In any case, he helped console me over my then-problematic admissions problem with getting into university and I discussed with him his son's future. He was sort of sad because his son was not taking the best route in school and wished his son would be more like me. In any case, it was an experience.

So... yeah.

The Desert bus is weird.

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Posted on 07-02-12 02:17:40 AM Link | Quote
I live (technically) in New York City, so this is how my ranking system goes:

Is someone else driving? Car all the way, unless they drive fast/aggressively. D:
Otherwise: Train and bus. In NYC, most train and bus lines run 24 hours a day, so you're never truly stranded, you just might need to wait 40 minutes to an hour for your next train/bus.

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Posted on 07-02-12 02:45:42 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Rick
I personally feel everyone should take at least one long bus trip in their lives. Not really for the horror stories, but because it feels more like an adventurous endeavor than the others.


I did this. Planes are good, but I prefer trains and buses because I get to enjoy the scenery.

Last February I went to Chicago from Philadelphia by bus (but I had to go to Philadelphia first, so that's yet another 1 hour bus ride!). The bus went to Harrisburg, dropped off some people and kept going to Pittsburgh. We left Philly at around 6pm and got to Pittsburgh nearly at 1am. I had no hotel reservations or anything - the expense would defeat the purpose of going by bus and saving money (total cost was $26!) - so I went sight-seeing around downtown Pittsburgh ([1], [2]) at that hour for a little bit then I went to a very popular 24-hour restaurant called "Primanti Bros", ate something, chatted with the owners, and stayed there till 6am when it was time to go catch my next bus.

My second bus left Pittsburgh around 7am and stopped in downtown Cleveland for 15 minutes, so I had a very brief chance to look at the city. After that, we finally made it to Toledo (Ohio) at around 11am-12pm or so. I was a bit away from the city center so there wasn't much I could do, sadly (though I was about 5 miles away from the Michigan border and I regret not exploring north!). Anyway, I ate and 7 hours later I was waiting for my next bus; I left Toledo at 7-8pm for Chicago and I got there at around 10-11pm local time. I got a really great view of Chicago from the Skyway on my way there. It was really exciting to finally get to my destination, after about 32 hours! I had already gone to Chicago by plane, but my bus trip was far more memorable!

Other bus trips I've made include:
*About 10 trips to Washington DC and its various suburbs (especially Alexandria, Bethesda, and Chantilly)
*About 10 trips to New York City (most of the time was spent in Manhattan)
*A one-day (about 10 hours) trip to Indianapolis while I was in Chicago.

Potential near-future bus trips include:
*A trip to Boston to meet Nicole and Sofi
*A trip to Toronto (because yay Canada!)
*More trips to Chicago
*Other metro areas near DC such as Baltimore, Richmond, Virginia Beach-Newport News, Annapolis, etc..
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