Really long bus rides

[BlackDiamond]

The other day I was watching this video by Steve Marsh about a Flixbus run from Rovaniemi Finland near the Arctic Circle to Krakow Poland, a 2000 km trip that takes about 40 hours. Technically they do get off one bus at Helsinki, ride the Ferry to Tallin Estonia then board a different bus to Krakow but it is all ticketed as one trip.

I wonder if there are any bus runs (on the same bus) that re longer than this. Perhaps one of the Greyhound runs across the Western US?

 

[railiner]

The other day I was watching this video by Steve Marsh about a Flixbus run from Rovaniemi Finland near the Arctic Circle to Krakow Poland, a 2000 km trip that takes about 40 hours. Technically they do get off one bus at Helsinki, ride the Ferry to Tallin Estonia then board a different bus to Krakow but it is all ticketed as one trip.

I wonder if there are any bus runs (on the same bus) that re longer than this. Perhaps one of the Greyhound runs across the Western US?

I don’t know of what is currently operated, due to the difficulty of finding timetables nowadays, but at one time, Greyhound and Trailways ran many thru buses from coast-to-coast, and border to border (and beyond), over lots of routes, and with multiple frequency.

Examples, include Boston or New York or Miami to San Francisco; Portland, ME to Miami; San Diego to Vancouver, BC; etc…

 

[Willbridge]

I don’t know of what is currently operated, due to the difficulty of finding timetables nowadays, but at one time, Greyhound and Trailways ran many thru buses from coast-to-coast, and border to border (and beyond), over lots of routes, and with multiple frequency.

Examples, include Boston or New York or Miami to San Francisco; Portland, ME to Miami; San Diego to Vancouver, BC; etc…

9½ years ago, I rode GL from Denver to Las Vegas. The bus was on a twice daily NYC<>Las Vegas run and there was a wheelchair passenger who was riding from Newark to Los Angeles.

Denver was a major servicing point, and the passengers had to wait in the Denver Bus Center until after midnight while the bus went to the garage and back. Here's a photo, taken at 12:01 a.m. There's only one trip a day on the route now.

 

[allanorn]

Scott from Planes, Trains, Everything did London to Sofia and that was 50 hours by bus:



He also did Land's End to John O'Groats at 53 hours, but I don't know if that was all in one go.

 

[MARC Rider]

The longest bus ride I ever took was a charter ride from Philadelphia to Chicago (and back again). We were Scouts going to Philmont. Bus from Philly to Chicago, Denver Zephyr to Denver and another bus to take us from Denver to Philmont. Pretty much nonstop, except for a meal break at the Denver Service Plaza on the Turnpike east of Harrisburg and another rest stop in Elkhart. We had actual breakfast at the Harvey House in Chicago and got a bus tour of the city before we boarded the train. I was only 14 at the time and not fully grown, so the eats seemed roomy enough. The real problem was that back in 1968 the tunnels on the Pennsylvania Turnpike were all single tubes with 2 lanes, which meant at least 3-5 sections of stop and go traffic while 2 lanes of traffic tried to fit into one lane. I think there was construction, too, as they were double tubing the tunnels (and actually removing a couple of them.) On our return trip, one of the buses broke down, and we all had to wait for couple of hours by the side of the road while they got a replacement for us.

 

[Traveller]

In early February 2002 rode all Greyhound for 6 days with just one night in a hotel. Zig zagged west-east starting in Boston to end up in Phoenix. Buses were busy as 911 was very fresh in peoples memories at that time, many who would usualy fly rode LD buses. I also remember there was often very tight security at the larger bus station entrances, armed guards who would need to see ID and tickets before you could enter.
Interesting times.

More recently Ushuia to Buenos Aires Argentina over 10 days again via off direct route places, maybe 5 nights in hotels. Argentina buses are just superb, a level of luxury on most routes that can only be dreamed of elsewhere.

 

[Bob Dylan]

Longest Bus ride I ever took was LA to NYC when I was transfered from the West Coast to the Subbase @ Groton,Conn.

SInce I wanted to see the Country, I would have taken Trains, but the Fare was more than the Travel Allowance.

5 days and 4 nights!

Second longest was Edmonton,Alberta to Austin,Texas when Greyhound had one of those $99 Unlimited riding Pass Deals going on.

4 days/3 Nights.

 

[west point]

Back when Greyhound operated several east coast to Laredo bus routes. Many times several extras going thru ATL usually destination marked express that would not pick up locally. The dog and trailways stations were adjacent in ATL as well as their service garages. Almost all passengers had to vacant their bus in ATL for servicing and or substituting for a broken-down bus. Food was not great but a cut above normal dog food.

Passengers could even ticket thru ATL from one carrier to the other with the separate assigned routes only by the ICC.