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Saturday May 19 Our first day of mostly travel we where meant to have a lazy morning in the hotel but woke up at about 8 as there was more packing and re organisation to do I had acumilated quite alot of crap on the way We checked out of the hotel at 9:10am and got on a long very busy hot bus into new york cities main bus terminal. We found ourselves once again starving having had nothing but snacks sinse 3:00pm the previous day so we got two quick paninis that cost 17.60! dollars, it was nice but not that nice, and headed to our gate for another famous grey hound bus which is always a barrel of fun. Atlantic City here we come. This time we couldnt have picked a worse place to sit. We sat in between a crying baby, the toilet and the annoying couple who were constantly jibber jabbering about pointless crap. Our first impression of them was when they tried pushing in front of a man to get on the bus. He wasn't having any of it and made short work of shouting them down into a quivering reck. One of the annoying couple,
the man seemed to try calm down the loud boisterous annoying woman but ended up irritating her more this appeared to be all he was good for. He only had two visible teeth at the front of his mouth which I assume were either punched out or rotted away there conversations where of the context of a drunk rambling pair of winos. There was a massive issue about what the where both doing and whether or not they should throw away a paper bag. Their more intellectual conversation was why guys and girls don't get along apparently it is because they have different point of view, "guys get on with guys better and girls with girls because they agree but guys and girls argue that's why their are so many divorces." They just wouldn't shut up. Then an argument about control from the psyco lady, lots of swearing and the next second they where cuddled up, and thenshouting and slapping, trust us to be sat in chair in front was an experience. Michaell finally after 30 minutes turned and said to me "see you in three hours" put his earphones in and shut his eyes. I decided to carry on
listening, it was like being in East Enders as minutes later they kissed and made up and prepared for the next argument as they tryed to decide who started it and who yelled and swore first. When you thought it couldn't get worse they where passing something that sounded like a small plastic bag to each and the woman said "don't lose it I'm already in trouble but will be in more if you loose it" the man went into the toilet first for less than a minute and came out with no sound of a flush? the woman sprayed her perfume everywhere which of course landed on us it smell of sweet coconuy, stawberrys and roses. Then the woman wanted to go in, the man said let me show you where the toilet paper is he went in followed buy the woman they shut the door and were in there for a couple of minutes. Michael and i looked at each other very quizzically are they doing drugs or joining the grey hound buses version of the mile high club? The man came out followed soon after but the psyco woman and once again with no flush. Not long
after she was still being loud and even started to sing, and let me tell you Simon Cowel, that this woman would be epic tv for the xfacter. They started to look through the annoying mans wallet where they found lots of pictures the woman sounded shocked as she described how similar she looks to the mans wife then for a while peace and quite not much scenery to be seen hight banks and trees prevented us gazing into the distance. Later in the journey the man offered the woman a bit of his red bull she replied with I don't drink alcohol. Why don't I believe her. Eventually I got sick of listening to the arguments and make ups this couple were having as most of it was such pointless crap. The next thing to make our trip even better the fattest Chinese man sat to the othe side of us leaned to one side directing towards us and let rip the loudest most flatulent fart I have heard in a while it was heard. Even at the front of the bus, fortunately it did not smell (there is a god). Well after that bus journey what could possibly
go wrong. We found the next bus station to get the bus to the hostel we booked. We felt a little nervous when we saw the people getting on and off that bus looked very rough. While riding that bus we went through areas I wouldn't dare to stop and take a piss in. Finally we got back to a main road It was like the A52 but with motels every 50yards and a few petrol stations and fast food places. We finally got to where we are going the driver said this is your stop guys the red carpet inn from the outside it didnt look great but to top it off when we got off another man got off and said are you seriously staying there. He said the owner is a thief and when he pulled up his sleeves he had bite marks all up his arms he said he got them from sleeping there. He said it was crawling with bed mites and he said one night he went went into annifalactic shock and an ambulance came for him he said don't stay there. We went in anyway after riding the bus for so long we
ended up miles away from the city, a 25 dollar taxi but better yet when we went to check in they said you aren't checked in hear its the red carpet in another 20 mins up the road further out the city at which point I went outside to calm down. Micheal got straight on the wi fi and neither of us could find anywhere to stay especially with those big bags so after another ten minits almost in tears we decided to get back on the bus to the city. The rough bus on the way back was no different we were still surrounded by dodgy looking and sounding people. When we got back we made our way straight to a McDonald's ate something and made a few plans on what we are going to do we considered trying to stay in the casinos all night, finding a luggage storage place but we both scoured the Internet and eventually found a place in the city not cheap but we could afford it the rodeway inn a 20 minute walk away. On arrival it didn't look great, pretty much looked like a skeggy bnb, whatever it was a roof. We unlocked the door to our room it was clean, two double beds a tv and bathroom. We were fine there was only a thin single pain window bettween us and outside and if you knocked on the door I'm sure it would open but most importantly we had a roof over our heads. We popped out and got some much need alcohol, showered and changed and drank heavily when we arrived a the tropicana a stones throw away we went straight to the casino. The casino was huge it was the biggest thing I had seen in a while. After scouting the area we found a game we had both never played before. Well I lost 40 dollars and almost cried Micheal won 65 and we continued our night. We arrived at the clubs inside tropicana which included a 70s club which was in an open area which was crap and a dance club that was 25 dollars just tandante entry. We were starting to tire from the ordeals of the day so Michael the kind arose from the ashes of Michael the grumpy and said lets go back rest and order in dominos he said he would pay as he won and so our day ended gorging on some very nice pizza.
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