Greyhound Canada shutting down all bus service permanently

[MineralMan]

4. I suppose Greyhound is on its way out...

Too bad, really. I have a long history with Greyhound buses.

My very first trip was at age 10. My parents put my 9-year-old sister and I on a bus from LA to Phoenix to visit our grandparents. Alone. The driver kept an eye on us, and we were met in Phoenix by our grandparents. We weren't the only unaccompanied kids on the bus, either. There was a lunch stop at one point. The driver rounded us up in time to get back on the bus.

I also rode the bus back and forth from college every couple of weeks. It was cheap and convenient, since I didn't have a car.

My last Greyhound trip was in 1965, when my car had a terminal breakdown in Charleston, SC. I got on a Greyhound there and rode it non-stop to Los Angeles, and then changed buses for one to Santa Barbara.

Every trip on the bus was different, and had a different group of people riding as passengers. I found it fascinating.

These days, few people use Greyhound to go from here to there. It's not a popular way to travel any longer.