THE EAST COAST SHUFFLE

This post is dedicated to all my East Coast actor friends who hustle up and down I-95 all week long for auditions and acting jobs.  I try to save wear and tear on my car as well as reduce stress while traveling so I'll park my car and then take one of the many express bus services between Washington, DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York City.  My favorite is Bolt Bus, operated by Greyhound.  They have two electrical outlets behind almost every seat on the bus and free Wi-Fi.  The buses are fairly new and for the most part generally clean, just a few years old and I only have good things to say about my experiences riding their buses and interacting with customer service.

Here are the other buses, I've used some of them and which bus I choose depends on my call time and the seat availability of the bus.  These all end in "dot com" - dc2ny, megabus, gotobus, tripperbus, vamoosebus, tonycoach, apexbus, fungwahbus, mvpbus, greyhound, peterpanbus, washingtondeluxe and lacubanabus.

A good survival kit to pack for traveling on the bus would include the following items: either earplugs or a noise cancelling headset, a travel pack of tissues to be used as toilet paper if needed, snacks, bottled water, a jacket that can be used as either a pillow when it is rolled up or a blanket, a sleeping mask to cover your eyes, a small, folding umbrella and wet wipes.