Ear­li­er this month, I took the Grey­hound Express from Nashville to Atlanta for a con­fer­ence. I want­ed to save costs wher­ev­er pos­si­ble, so a rental car was out — over a week, even the cheap­est option gets real­ly expen­sive. Also, book­ing ear­ly on Grey­hound gave quite a dis­count — it was a whop­ping $15 for a round trip tick­et. 20x cheap­er than fly­ing, and free bag­gage was included.

I took a taxi from the house to the Nashville Grey­hound sta­tion (Eryn was already out of town on anoth­er trip). Sur­pris­ing­ly high-tech for Nashville, these lit­tle Tax­iMag­ic appli­ances are quite handy when you want to avoid cash in taxis. Atlanta taxis could take a lesson!

I arrived at the bus sta­tion a full hour ear­ly, which gave plen­ty of time to check out the clean-but-cramped space. Lines every­where, snaking around the dif­fer­ent “express” areas. A tip — you stay with your bag­gage the whole time. After I had got­ten my bag tagged, I thought they would take it to the bus, akin to com­mer­cial air trav­el. But no — you stay as close (or as far) from your bag as you desire, car­ry­ing it out to the bus when the time comes to board.

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