Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast with me, Simon Calder, Thursday the 11th of April.

Yesterday, he celebrated Paul Simon when he was singing about sitting at a railroad station

with a ticket for his destination on the train. Today, I'm also channeling a bit of Paul Simon.

He in the great song, America,

talked about counting the cars on the New Jersey turnpike from a Greyhound bus.

I'm actually rolling through New England,

just crossing into the state of Massachusetts.

But a good time to talk about the Greyhound Bus and how it is still unbelievably going.

It was founded 110 years ago in Hibbing, Minnesota.

I've been there, I've been to the fantastic Greyhound Hall of Fame

where you can basically just play around with those old buses if that's your thing.

Or you can find out about the incredible social and economic history of this undertaking.

It's also, by the way, the place that Bob Dylan was brought up.

So there we are, musical connections all round.

Let's talk about Greyhound Bus in 2024.

I'm on this bus.

There's half a dozen other passengers

maybe about 40, 50 seats

and it's a joyful ride

through the woodland

I'm not really sure why we're not heading down

the interstate but that's fine

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