Traveling is fun. For the most part. The actual transportation to your chosen destination is usually a bummer. This weekend I met my best friend and family in Chicago for her birthday. In general I hate public transportation- of any kind. All for different reasons but equally as much.
Flying: The plane will probably crash. Why? Because it will. Yes, I know statistically flying is one of the safest ways to travel but for some reason I hate it. A lot. I feel like we are trying to compete with birds in their natural habitat and that is just rude.
Buses: I've always had this germ thing. I hate germs and in my mind there are about 67 million more germs on a bus than anywhere else in the world. Some buses are better than others but no matter what someone is guaranteed to invade your space in one way or another.
Taxis: They are efficient, yes, but they make you pay them a lot of money to drive you somewhere you could totally walk to if it wasn't freezing and you weren't wearing five inch heels. Also, depending on what city you are in there is going to be some one way street they can't turn down. You'll have to get out of the cab early and you end up doing what you tried to avoid in the first place- walking.
Trains: Generally this mode of transportation seems like a pretty decent option. It becomes indecent when you: a. sit next to someone who finds showers to be an unnecessary part of life, b. sit by someone who thinks their perfume/ cologne is the bomb, c. sit near screaming children (who have parents who believe in the parenting method which requires them to scream back at their children). They generally provide a much more scenic route and the seats actually fit one normal sized human and are therefore one of the the better options.
So like I said, I was in Chi-town for the weekend. Evidently it is wise to buy your return ticket on AmTrak more than one day in advance. This is because people go home on Sunday's and that results in sold out tickets. This is how I ended up on the Mega Bus.
The Mega Bus is good for one reason only, it is cheap. That is the only reason. The seats are small, the restroom uses formaldehyde as their sanitation system, it's bumpy and on this particular day I boarded the bus two hours late because it left w/o about half of it's travelers. They had to turn around an hour away and come back for us. That is why at this particular point in time I nominate buses as the worst possible way to travel.
Suggestions: Drive a private vehicle. If you choose this option remember that there are some police who take the speed limit seriously and will pull you over. If you get pulled over by the nice officer about 20 miles out of Miami tell him I say hi and thanks for the warning.
Flying: The plane will probably crash. Why? Because it will. Yes, I know statistically flying is one of the safest ways to travel but for some reason I hate it. A lot. I feel like we are trying to compete with birds in their natural habitat and that is just rude.
Buses: I've always had this germ thing. I hate germs and in my mind there are about 67 million more germs on a bus than anywhere else in the world. Some buses are better than others but no matter what someone is guaranteed to invade your space in one way or another.
Taxis: They are efficient, yes, but they make you pay them a lot of money to drive you somewhere you could totally walk to if it wasn't freezing and you weren't wearing five inch heels. Also, depending on what city you are in there is going to be some one way street they can't turn down. You'll have to get out of the cab early and you end up doing what you tried to avoid in the first place- walking.
Trains: Generally this mode of transportation seems like a pretty decent option. It becomes indecent when you: a. sit next to someone who finds showers to be an unnecessary part of life, b. sit by someone who thinks their perfume/ cologne is the bomb, c. sit near screaming children (who have parents who believe in the parenting method which requires them to scream back at their children). They generally provide a much more scenic route and the seats actually fit one normal sized human and are therefore one of the the better options.
So like I said, I was in Chi-town for the weekend. Evidently it is wise to buy your return ticket on AmTrak more than one day in advance. This is because people go home on Sunday's and that results in sold out tickets. This is how I ended up on the Mega Bus.
The Mega Bus is good for one reason only, it is cheap. That is the only reason. The seats are small, the restroom uses formaldehyde as their sanitation system, it's bumpy and on this particular day I boarded the bus two hours late because it left w/o about half of it's travelers. They had to turn around an hour away and come back for us. That is why at this particular point in time I nominate buses as the worst possible way to travel.
Suggestions: Drive a private vehicle. If you choose this option remember that there are some police who take the speed limit seriously and will pull you over. If you get pulled over by the nice officer about 20 miles out of Miami tell him I say hi and thanks for the warning.
That sucks you got burned by Megabus! I've taken it several times to and from Chicago with no problems, but I never used the bathroom. I thought Megabus was a lot better than other buses, like Greyhound, because the people creepy..
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