Strange Megabus Stops

Megabus is generally good to me, but my bus to Boston last week did manage to break down in Harlem for nearly three hours. Of course, we didn’t know how long we’d be stranded there, so we couldn’t wander around much (or indeed, go back to the bus station and get on any of the next several busses which would have gotten to Boston sooner than our eventual replacement bus). Anyway, I made this sketch to help pass the time:

I was returning from Wellfleet on Cape Cod, and thought I’d try the newish direct Hyannis to New York Megabus (the alternative being Peter Pan bus with their obligatory hour layover in a shed by the highway outside Providence). Instead of having a terminus near the Hyannis Transportation Center, where my bus from Wellfleet arrived, Megabus uses the ferryboat terminal. So I had a nice wander in the October rain from bus to bus. And had enough time at the ferry terminal to make this sketch:

I just booked a Megabus trip to Atlantic City, and not only will it be via another bus line (Megabus is just reselling the seats?), the dropoff location is “various casinos”–and they don’t mean the bus will stop at a bunch of various casinos, they mean that each bus goes to a different random casino. Strange, but not too dangerous a gamble, as they’re all near enough to each other, and I’m sure at least our driver will know where s/he’s going. And if not, hey, more chance I’ll get another sketch out of it!