Liveblogging on the Bolt Bus: Driving from DC to NYC

Apr

Filed Under (New York, blogging) by on 25-04-2008

My friend GoPats asked me in today’s comments:

Why don’t you blog from the wired wifi super bus?”

Having known him 9 years, I knew he was due to come up with a good idea. So here I am, on my very first BoltBus trip, writing to a total of five readers who Sitemeter tells me are currently on my blog (it’s Friday night, go out). Our WiFi connection keeps going in and out so I can’t guarantee that I can stay online or that it will even be entertaining, but I’m nothing if not determined to make you laugh.

Like a clown.

6:27PM: The bus is about to leave and the very first thing I have noticed about BoltBus is the silly people with their silly laptops (I am NOT excluding myself). The first thing everyone did was look for seats with sockets in front of them. Not two minutes went by before everyone took out their laptops and checked their e-mails.

6:35PM: Arjewtino: “Excuse me, driver, do you have the network code to get online?”
Random girl who thinks I was talking to her: “You don’t need a network code.”
Bus driver who just became my new best friend: “Actually, yes you do.”
Arjewtino to random girl: “Suck it.”

7:36PM: We lost Internet pretty much when we started the drive. Everyone is freaking out. There’s pandemonium. If we can’t GChat while on a moving conductor we’ll just about die. I entertained myself by watching an episode from the first season of Perfect Strangers. Don’t judge me. It’s a great show. That Balki!! So foreign and stupid!

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Comments

Sean on 25 April, 2008 at 8:07 pm #

If you’re interested, I’ll be glad to provide you play by play comments of the Pittsburgh Penguins-New York Rangers game (since you’re actually on the way to New York, of course).

Sean’s last blog post..Missing Matzo

Sean on 25 April, 2008 at 8:07 pm #

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL! (Go Pens!)

Sean’s last blog post..Missing Matzo

A-Train on 26 April, 2008 at 9:25 am #

I’m just waiting for wi-fi to become completely portable like cell phones, and then everyone can talk about the distant past when the BoltBus was a novelty.

Big I on 26 April, 2008 at 4:52 pm #

If you weren’t such a cheap ass, you could get an EVDO card from Sprint and have high speed connectivity from your laptop any time. Hope you had a god time.

Sisco on 27 April, 2008 at 10:08 am #

I was actually on the train this weekend to head back home and I was wishing that Amtrak had some sort of wifi connection.

But then I realized I would just fuck around on my laptop instead of reading a book or checking out the awesome scenery that is America.

Sisco’s last blog post..Seafoam Ennui Jicama

Nickels on 28 April, 2008 at 8:45 am #

Just. Read. A. Book. Just kidding, you actually read more than probably 96.4% of the US population… except for the Princess, she kicks your butt in volume!