3 ms·
A very different scale, but this reminded of the Green Tortoise which was an American, mostly West Coast affair that once ranged from Alaska to Belize. https:/
by consumer451 10mo ago
A very different scale, but this reminded of the Green Tortoise which was an American, mostly West Coast affair that once ranged from Alaska to Belize.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Tortoise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Tortoise
edit: oh wow. It still runs!
http://www.greentortoise.com/ http://www.greentortoise.com/
- jacobgorm 10mo agoI took that once from SF to NYC when in my twenties. Definitely recommend.
- daviding 10mo agoI did too - did the SF back to NYC leg that goes the north route as well. Amazing experience. I was only 19 at the time. My favorite memory is that on the westbound leg we met up with the eastbound one in (I think) Yellowstone and while parking the buses they managed to slowly crash in to each other (just a dent, nothing serious). I liked the fact they both started from separate coasts and ending up colliding.
- tavavex 10mo agoCan I ask what year that was in? Several people in here seem to be intimately familiar with this company, but it's my first time hearing about it, despite me being quite interested in travel and all sorts of weird transit methods. It made me wonder if everyone here used them when they were at their peak many decades ago, or if this varied.
- daviding 10mo ago1989. I saw a paper flyer in the New York Public Library and turned up a few days later at the bus station on impulse. It was basically a moving commune, where you slept on flat boards, cooked together and moved glacially slowly towards the destination. The NY -> SF went south via FL, TX etc. It was mainly young people not actually from the US, Europe, Australia etc.
- tim333 10mo agoI did similar as brit tourist. It was about a week from Boston to SF.
- jacobgorm 10mo ago1997 for me.
- Klonoar 10mo agoHuh. I've seen that hostel in downtown Seattle for years now but never knew the story behind the brand.
- rpozarickij 10mo ago> Green Tortoise Adventure Travel is an American long-distance tour bus company > is I usually find Wikipedia to be quite accurate when it comes to telling whether something is still operational/active or not, especially when it comes to businesses (among other things).
- ivm 10mo agoMany years ago it was a great service to get to BM cheaply.
- mapt 10mo ago> A very different scale Anchorage to Belize: 5777 miles London to Kolkata: 5695 miles
- tavavex 10mo agoI actually can't find any evidence that there ever existed a direct Anchorage-Belize trip. The parent comment implies that the company merely offered routes that extended to these destinations, but not necessarily as a single trip.
- consumer451 10mo agoThat is indeed what I was trying to imply. Although, as someone who grew up on the West Coast, I have to say that similarity in distance is still a bit surprising to me.
- skrebbel 10mo agoWhich of the two distances would you have guessed is further?
- consumer451 10mo agoAcross Eurasia. There might be some cultural/imagination thing going on. I have driven from British Columbia to Tijuana. I cannot even imagine how that would be across Eurasia.
- skrebbel 10mo agoRight! In my mind the American feels “obviously” further mainly due to how insanely far Anchorage is from, well, everywhere.
- trueismywork 10mo agoHow did you compute the distances? Geodesic?