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A Fear of Whales
Bus: Leg 2.5
By
rgaffney
About halfway to Columbia Missouri I used the restroom. I’ve used restrooms on buses before. Back in California I was a part of a very large youth group and there was no way we were going to get enough 15 passenger vans to move everybody, so we used to charter buses to our camping trips.…
Bus: Leg 2
By
rgaffney
The woman sitting next to me talked about her story, how she has a black eye from when her son and one of his friends broke into her house last week to beat her up because they were drunk and he was mad at her for abandoning him. It struck me how nonchalant about this…
Bus: Leg 1
By
rgaffney
The 4am bus was late, but I got on at about 5 and sat at the last seat remaining in the very front. There was another guy Leo who got on with me, and he and the bus driver were the only folks awake on the bus. I chatted with each of them quietly for…
Bus: Leg 0
By
rgaffney
What the hell was I thinking? My Bus adventure has not even started yet and I’m already beginning to think this was a bad idea. Maybe the airline industry isn’t so bad after all. There’s a town not far from home called Junction City. It’s mostly military, and in the 6 months I’ve been in…
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