LIFE COACH

WHETHER YOU PLAY ‘CHARABANC ROULETTE’ AND GO WHERE FATE TAKES YOU, OR TAKE A SLOW CHUG IN A VINTAGE VEHICLE, LIFE LOOKS DIFFERENT FROM THE DECK OF A BUS. JULIAN OWEN GETS ON BOARD

Bus and coach travel as an adult divides into three stages. The first lasts for three years and is called Being A Student. The last begins with a free bus pass and continues for as long as the good lord sees fit. In the middle is by far the biggest portion: four decades of seeing countless buses but never actually riding one. Well, we’re about to change that. First, though, let’s establish what went wrong. Deep down, we’ve always known bus travel is sexy. Hollywood told us all about America’s Greyhound buses, tubes of brushed aluminium dripping in romantic road trip culture, the name redolent of sleek swiftness, bounding between Chicago and Los Angeles, New Orleans and New York. Where I grew up we had Badgerline: overgrown minibuses garnished in garish green…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, 01-Jul-2015

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