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The best way to see the real US ; The Greyhound bus is a national institution in America. It's played a role in Hollywood movies and the civil rights movement and has even been immortalised in song by Simon and Garfunkel. And it still offers a great way to see the country, says MICHAEL PAULS
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The best way to see the real US ; The Greyhound bus is a national institution in America. It's played a role in Hollywood movies and the civil rights movement and has even been immortalised in song by Simon and Garfunkel. And it still offers a great way to see the country, says MICHAEL PAULS
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The best way to see the real US ; The Greyhound bus is a national institution in America. It's played a role in Hollywood movies and the civil rights movement and has even been immortalised in song by Simon and Garfunkel. And it still offers a great way to see the country, says MICHAEL PAULS
2003
Overview
The Greyhound got its start in 1914 in Hibbing, Minnesota, transporting iron miners. Its operators had the foresight to build it into the first nationwide bus line, and they got their big break with the film It Happened One Night (1934), in which Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert rode a Greyhound overnight to Florida while the passengers sang \"The Man On The Flying Trapeze\". The Dog has been a national institution ever since. When the Freedom Riders of the civil rights movement went down south in the Sixties, Greyhound is what they were riding; one of their buses got firebombed in Alabama in 1962. The Greyhound station in Clarksville, Mississippi, the Gateway to Chicago, is a blues legend, and it is now incorporated into the Delta Blues Museum there. The slogan is: \"Travel throughout North America with safety, dignity and convenience\". Greyhound sends off more than 20,000 buses every day. The busiest line connects New York to the casinos in Atlantic City, but you can ride a Greyhound to the Yukon, or to Guadalajara or Tampico. You can ride over the top of Hoover Dam on it. The Dog will take you to the manifold delights of Chicago. It will take you to the prairie oasis of Kansas City, the \"City of Fountains\", or to Detroit, to see ruins and Art Deco treasures and Diego Rivera murals. It will take you to Portland, Oregon, America's most progressive city, or to Fort Lauderdale or Taos or Las Vegas, to hillbilly paradise in the lovely Ozarks or to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, for the Bach Festival. Greyhound has closed down its UK office to cut costs, but various British agents, including STA Travel (08701 606 070, www.statravel.co.uk), sell tickets and passes. Alternatively, you can find out all you need to know about the Dog - route maps, passes and schedules - on the excellent website www.greyhound.com. Telephone enquiries can be made on 001 402 330 8552, or within the US for free on 1 800 229 9424. The phones are unstaffed between 3am and 5am central time (9pm to 11pm, British time). If you prefer to fix things as you go along, you'll find the best thing about Greyhound is the sheer simplicity of it all. Just line up and buy a ticket, check your bags and get on. There are no ticket or seat reservations on Greyhound. On the other hand, there's usually plenty of room, and the company is good about running extra buses when a scheduled service fills up.
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Independent Digital News & Media
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