So they say that travel is about the journey and not the destination and as a couple of relatively seasoned budget backpacker travellers we are often willing to accept that! There have been innumerable occasions on which we have decided to take a 22 hour bus journey instead of a 2 hour flight in order to save ourselves the money and to give us a chance to see a bit more of a country. Most of the time this does save us the money but the journey probably isn’t quite the window into the country that we romantically sold it to ourselves as being…as we trudge down the motorway or through endless baron desert! In spite of the often dull nature of the intermittent journey, as long as it does what it says it will do and leaves and arrives within a reasonable window of our expectations no one is about to kick up a fuss…Unfortunately this was not to be the case with over a days worth of travelling that we underwent, fruitlessly utilizing four different modes of transport across two American states and Canada! When we finally reached the end of our 30 hours, we were all but ready to throw in the travelling towel and head back to our jobs and the dull monotony of a 9 to 5 in the predictably slow but reliable Sydney rush hour!
We would like to say that this nightmare of travel was a result of us attempting to do something massively obscure and off the beaten track, however, all we actually achieved was a brief round trip into central Manhattan from Newark Penn station and then getting from our AirBnB accommodation in Newark to the airport and onto Halifax in Nova Scotia and the hostel we were staying at there. Sounds pretty simple right?! You have no idea!!!! Newark, NJ - New York City, NY - Newark, NJ - Halifax, NS We arrived into Newark mid-morning of September 10th, left our bags in the secure hold at Newark Penn station and then headed off to spend our last day in the USA back where it all began in NYC! This was the start of a seven-stage transport nightmare that would not come to an end until early evening the following day…and this is what it looked like…
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