July 9 2010 - Myrtle Beach intermezzo

Hey there

Not a lot happened today. I spent the whole day (almost) in buses.
First I arrived in Raleigh at 3.00am. Yes, of course the 10.40pm bus I talked about yesterday was late. The bus finally left at 11.15pm after a lot of difficulties getting all the people in the station on the right bus, it was crazy! So we were on the bus after ages of waiting when it occured to the greyhound people that we might need a driver to get us to Raleigh. Eventually, one showed up, he barely looked older than me, obviously a new driver and guess what, he didn't reallt know his route yet. We had to turn around a couple of times and we ended up in Raleigh late. This time I didn't really mind about the lateness though, all it meant was less waiting in Raleigh.

The bus to Myrtle Beach was late too (of course), we got there at about 1pm. This gave me just enough time to catch a taxi to the Hard Rock, buy my shirt (which I actually got for free thanks to my all access cars :) ) and have the same taxi drive me back to the station. The driver was really funny, older black guy, talked to me about politics a lot and wanted to know when I was gonna get married. I invented a story which was really a lot of fun ( inventing the story, not the story itself :) )

Back at the station I caught my bus to Newport Rhode Island in time. (It's too bad I didn't get more time in Myrtle Beach, from what I've seen it must be an awesome place)I was not really looking forweard to that trip. I had to change buses about 5 times! The first part is jus 1.5h to Wilmington, then 2h layover there before getting to Richmond Virginia at midnight. Next it will be a 2h ride to Washington DC and then another 4.5h to New York. I will actually spent 1.5h there YAY, before going on the next bus to Providence for 4h. From there 20minutes to Fall River where the last change will happen. From there, it's 30minutes to Newport. I will hopefully get there by 4pm after 14hours (i don't really care about the hours, it's more the transfers that bother me). Anyhow, we'll see if it all works out.

xoxo