# Advice needed for traveling by bus **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 19, 2009, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-needed-for-traveling-by-bus/489974 "2009-03-19T01:53:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-needed-for-traveling-by-bus/489974/21 "2009-03-20T00:08:21Z")
My tip: two litres a day _but not all at once_. Seriously, get a big bottle of water, and pace yourself, and no sneaky soda either. Provided you’ve taken every opportunity to take a piss, you will be fine. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-needed-for-traveling-by-bus/489974/22 "2009-03-20T07:51:31Z")
> [@filling\_pages](#): > > - And that comes to my last point. You can linger on the cramped quarters and the seemingly endless travel, or you can people watch, listen in, and generally distract yourself with your fellow passengers. You hear some of the craziest shit that way. Good advice. One Greyhound trip can provide enough material for a short story writer or filmmaker o work with for the rest of their life. If you are an easy going person, taking Greyhound can be a lot of fun. I always kind of enjoy it. **The Weird One** has some great practical advice, especially about the arctic air. ---
**Author:** ![longPath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bb73d2/32.png) [@longPath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/longPath)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-needed-for-traveling-by-bus/489974/23 "2009-03-20T11:04:50Z")
Heard a news item within the last day or two. Due to the incident in Manitoba, GH has been not allowing passengers to have \*any \*carry-on baggage. Everything goes underneith in cargo. I can’t see anything on their website about the policy. ---
**Author:** ![filling\_pages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@filling\_pages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filling_pages)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-needed-for-traveling-by-bus/489974/24 "2009-03-20T15:44:11Z")
> [@longPath](#): > > Heard a news item within the last day or two. Due to the incident in Manitoba, GH has been not allowing passengers to have \*any \*carry-on baggage. Everything goes underneith in cargo. > > I can’t see anything on their website about the policy. Okay, that’s just not cool. The main things that makes it less than miserable are the food, drinks, books, music, etc you bring to distract yourself. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-needed-for-traveling-by-bus/489974/25 "2009-03-20T15:54:04Z")
Isn’t the time you save flying worth considering? ---
**Author:** ![brad\_d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@brad\_d](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brad_d)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-needed-for-traveling-by-bus/489974/26 "2009-03-20T16:07:49Z")
Here’s a [travel blog](http://www.worldhum.com/travel-blog/item/greyhound_drivers_to_limit_carry_on_baggage_20080826/) entry I found dated 8-27-08: > [@Travel Blog](#): > > More fall-out from the Greyhound beheading: according to the CBC, Greyhound bus drivers will increasingly be exercising their right to limit carry-on baggage on their routes. Under the existing regulations, it’s fair game for drivers to request all riders’ personal items be placed in storage under the bus except medicine, baby care items and books. [Here](http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2008/08/25/greyhound-drivers.html) is a CBC article (possibly the one the blog is referring to) on the same topic dated 8-25-08. Makes it sound like it’s completely up to the driver, with a precious few items exempt. I’ve never traveled by intercity bus commercially, but I’ve been on a number of chartered buses (often Greyhounds) while traveling with various school bands in high school and college. _That_ was fun, I thought, but many of the elements that made it enjoyable would be notably absent on a commercial version of the same journey. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-needed-for-traveling-by-bus/489974.md?page=1)