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Good morning. ☕☕☕
5 December 2025
I was looking forward to cooler weather. Well—it’s here, and it brought the wet with it. I suspect this will be one of those winters that turns part of my yard into a bog, a soggy muddy mess.
Here’s Charlie. It’s ten minutes to mealtime, and he’s making sure I don’t forget. We’ve been hunkered down inside for several days while I try to adjust to the damp chill. And yes, here I go again, talking about the weather. I keep telling myself: get out there, take a walk. At the end of the driveway it’s nothing but a muddy mess, but maybe we’ll go this morning after Charlie eats. Just Charlie and his trusty sidekick—me.
When was the last time you took a trip on a bus? For me, it’s been a while. About twenty years ago, when we first moved here, we rode a Greyhound bus to Houston to pick up a car we had shipped from Germany. The Greyhound stop in town has since closed.
Decades ago, though, I was a regular passenger. Duffle or seabag stowed beneath, and off down the highway. It was a thing then, and I suppose it still is for some folks.
My late mother-in-law used to tickle me with her approach. She treated it as an adventure, always calling it “riding the dog.” She wouldn’t fly, so we’d bring her in by Greyhound when she came to visit. My wife and her sisters would track her progress from stop to stop, like following a trail of breadcrumbs.
There are still Greyhound stations in the larger cities, but I rarely see one of their buses on the road anymore.
“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.” — Bob Marley
“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent.” — Milan Kundera
“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” — St. Augustine
#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #wildlife #nature #bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #morning #beach #ocean #greyhoundbus #weather #dogs
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"A puddle in a casino parking lot in Vegas or a bed of vegetables grown in a scrubby patch of communal land next to a block of flats in Ankara or Detroit or Dakar can tell us just as much about our relationship to the Earth as any other location." —Joanna Pocock for Orion Magazine
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Previously I posted here about my soft spot for Glen Campbell’s Wichita Lineman. On further reflection it occurred to me that one of the reasons it resonates so strongly with me as an adult (having first fallen for it as a young child) is it embodies a romance of the (American) open road.
In my youth I was lucky enough to fulfil my adolescent dream of driving across North America (east to west) and travel back (west to east) via Greyhound.
Looking back on those memories I can barely detect the boundaries delineating the reality of it from the dream of it. Such is the unreliability of the mind when it comes to certainty about anything. Perhaps it is in this liminal zone, prone to suggestion, that our unconscious emerges unbidden presenting us with desires and aversions of which we were previously unaware or had forgotten.
Wasn’t it Jung (of course) who once said:
What you resist persists.
#dreams #GlenCampbell #GreyhoundBus #liminal #mind #openRoad #reality #roadTrip #romance #unconscious #WichitaLineman
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The destruction of Greyhound intercity bus service continues under its predatory capitalist First Group ownership.
The service itself has been sloughed off to Flixbus requiring passengers to wait in parking lots near interstates while all the properties have been sold for redevelopment through Alden Global Capital, disguised as Twenty Lake Holdings, LLC.
Cleveland had one of the last Deco stations.
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Minneapolis by Bus, time to 'Turn the Page' my late #BirthdayMonth #journey #goodreads ##travelblog #travelwriter #greyhoundbus #roadtrip #friendships #bobseger #turnthepage #wednesdayaddams #musicvideos #writer #writerscommunity #kindness #loveoneanother
https://rickollie.com/2024/07/06/minneapolis-by-bus-time-to-turn-the-page/
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Columbus got ahead of the game when the city shut down its Greyhound station, but apparently Greyhound's owner has been shutting down city-center stations in other cities too: https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/11/23/as-greyhound-stations-go-extinct-low-income-thanksgiving-travelers-are-left-out-in-the-cold
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Intercity Bus Stations may not always sound like a sexy topic to many, but they are important. We need them to be set up centrally with amenities and comforts.
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"Greyhound bus stations nationwide are closing and relocating outside central business districts after being acquired by an investment firm that rose to infamy for its acquisition and gutting of American newspapers."#Intercity #transit #GreyhoundBus
https://www.axios.com/2023/11/18/greyhound-alden-bus-stations-close -
"From St Louis to Albuquerque, I had over 1,000 miles to cover. I had planned to read, but none of the overhead lights worked. Many of the buses are slowly falling apart."
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@TIME #greyhoundstories #greyhoundbus are memorable! In the 1990s I met an LA gang member hoping to escape the lifestyle. I met a guy going to a cousin's funeral who'd won a rap contest but was shot dead by the runner-up. Met a Korean War vet at breakfast who said every American needs a pair of six guns by their side to defend their rights of democracy. Met another rapper with a small kid who wanted to introduce positive vibes and kinder lyrics into the genre.
