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From: marr@yale.ARPA (Leon T. Marr)
Newsgroups: net.travel
Subject: Re: Green Tortoise
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Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 08:57:36 EDT
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Love `em!  I traveled from Berkeley to Portland on a Green Tortoise
bus last summer.  You can`t beat the price ($39) unless you hitch, and it
is a TRIP!  The trip was overnight, with communal breakfast.
I`d travel on them again anytime!  I met interesting people on the bus,
had a fun time getting to know them (the atmosphere is more like a rolling
party than public transportation), and really regretted leaving when I
got off in Portland.  Our driver had a ban against alcohol and tobacco,
but it varies with the drivers.

Definitely a counterculture experience, though, as sleeping is on foam
mattresses on the bus and bathing is in some hot springs on the way.
Not for yuppies.

By way of contrast, I had to take a Greyhound from Portland to Tillamook,
and was bored silly.

Unqualified recommendation, if you can accept a 'hippie-like' experience.

I`d love to hear other comments, esp. other alternative bus lines operating
in North America and Europe.

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P.S. I`m planning a trip out west too, and I`d like to go from LA to Vancouver.