Another Greyhound experience. There aren’t too many options for getting around the US. Greyhound is fairly rough and many of the buses are run down but you seem to be able to go anywhere every day. You can purchase tickets online at a discount and the website works well. How they coordinate all of the bussing options is beyond me. It is the cheapest way to travel and it is well used by the lower socio-economic demographic – and cheapskate tourists! Greyhound have charcoal-colored buses and white ones. The charcoal ones are more modern and offer free wifi. The white ones are run down and rough, and no wifi. Which bus you get depends on the route. You can’t choose one over the other, just rejoice when you go to board and the bus is a charcoal one.
The other option is Amtrak, the train. They are less flexible with route choices and more expensive, but no doubt more comfortable. I never travelled Amtrak, always going for the cheapest option.
I arrive in Miami around 4pm. Choosing hotels online, as I have been doing, is hit-and-miss. I having been selecting the cheapest options but it is hard to get an idea of their location in relation to the city and the greyhound bus terminal. I have paid some hefty taxi fees to get from the bus terminal to my hotel. This time I have ended up in a hotel smack in the middle of a medical precinct! It’s all hospitals, research facilities and university students. You try and buy a packet of cigarettes in a medical precinct! I had to walk miles!
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Bro, you need to quite that cigarette habit :-> That was funny though, I have to admit!
You are right Don. I will stop…soon! I will.