On our first trip leaving New York for Toronto we encountered some interesting locals. Firstly one guy who we thought may have been dead at one point, he got on the bus with us and was instantly asleep and didn't get up until Buffalo a good 5 or so hours away! He didn't move at all which was a little creepy.
This didn't compare the the second lot of people we encountered. Stopped in quite a little village/town I suppose and on got like 9 Omish people it was crazy. They were speaking a language we didn't understand but it had strands of English within it. Strange, they hung around on the bus in all there old fashioned bonnets and black dresses making sandwiches on the bus you know as you do?! Until Buffalo Airport when they departed, shortly after this we made an extra stop at a hotel to let on some blind people. They sat right behind us while we were trying to sleep and they were SO loud! Honestly we didn't much care about their friend Mary's trip and some woman's funeral (we had been up since 3am it's the last thing we wanted to hear). Literally drove us nuts, Luckily they also got off at Buffalo Airport. The bus after that was very quiet and uneventful until we got to Toronto.
So our journey back from Toronto we expected to be a quiet drive to the bus terminal as it was late at night to jump on at 12am.
So we packed up and said goodbye to the cats and headed back into Toronto city to catch our Greyhound bus back to New York. Leaving at 10 to be there for 11.30 no problem you may think. Well that's what we thought at least. Unfortunately Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran decided to have a concert at the Rodgers stadium and kicking out time coincided with us getting into the city. It was GRIDLOCKED! Erugh Luckily Natasha with her local wisdom and magical 7 Series managed to navigate a different route going past the Ramen place we went to earlier in the week and got us on the bus with 2 minutes to spare! Cutting it fine but luckily we made it on the bus back to New York! Phew.
During this bus trip we had a 2 hour stop over at Buffalo Bus Terminal where we saw a very interesting fellow dressed as a teenage mutant ninja turtle with a turtle shell backpack and patterned hoodie.
Very interesting. After this it was another change before our last coach to New York, and finally after 4 coaches we got an official greyhound bus with leather seats and working Wifi! With these new comfey seats we fell asleep in second and were awoken to change coaches two hours later. At this point we were put back onto a ropey old trail ways bus but we got front seats so it wasn't too bad. After another snooze and a few more stops we got chatting to the driver who had done a lot of touring around America and other traveling around the world. This was a great time sucker and we chatted to him till we got to New York where he gave us our bags a firm handshake and sent us in the right direction for a subway to our hotel for the night.
Overall impression of Greyhound busses a little odd at times but they do the job and get you where you need to go cheaply. Saying that next time we will fly to Toronto!
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