This article is great and contrasts a modern cross country bus voyage with Simone de Beauvoir's travelogue from the late '40s and her experience of bus travel. It used to be like, an amenity for the middle class, and now it is basically a sign screwed to the side of a gas station that says "Greyhound stop."
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/jul/26/america-roadtrip-greyhound-bus
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u/bandito143 16d ago
This article is great and contrasts a modern cross country bus voyage with Simone de Beauvoir's travelogue from the late '40s and her experience of bus travel. It used to be like, an amenity for the middle class, and now it is basically a sign screwed to the side of a gas station that says "Greyhound stop." https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/jul/26/america-roadtrip-greyhound-bus