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...traveled 4000 miles in four weeks on the Greyhound and viewed the overnight ride from Portland to San Francisco as another routine passage...
...full. Just behind us a loudmouthed Scandinavian with Cuban sympathies alternately cursed Greyhound, the United States and the youth of America. The youth of America was across from him, represented by Stephen, a harmonica-playing punk, making advances on his seat companion, a blousy young woman with a baby...
Many Americans have found that; holiday in their own country is now less expensive than almost any foreign foray, whether they buy the cheapest ticket -the Greyhound Ameripass, 30 days of unlimited bus travel for $175-or go for a fly-and-drive tour of the Northwest. Travel within the U.S. has shown a marked increase, notably in the South and West. Alaska and Hawaii have also enjoyed a bumper summer. Heading south into Baja California along the new transpeninsular highway, gringo travelers have discovered such little-known Mexican resorts as Puerto Escondido, Loreto and Mulegé, all moderately priced...
...track. Apparently there has been a crash. Huge volumes of black, grimy smoke pouring towards us have caused the drivers to slow up on the track. The source, however, is the bog. Stranded in the middle of the mob is the charred hulk of a 40-seat Greyhound bus, bursting like popcorn as the children stone it. The burning continues through the Oldtimers' Race, a special side event this afternoon. Spinning clods of mud in the waning light, the motorcycles continue their catatonic sorties through the now near-solid crowd...
...York Times I will read that one stolen Greyhound bus and 11 cars, four of which were stolen, were burnt. I will read that Emerson Fittapaldi, who placed 4th in the race, won his 3rd Grand Prix Driving Championship, the cumulative point total of all the races run this year, and makes over $1,000,000 a year. I will read about the crashes and laptimes, mechanical failures and prize money. But the people of that instant city of 105,000 have now disappeared, their lives unrecorded, back into the bowels of America. And the drivers will continue defining their...