- A little while ago, I did
a video on Spirit Airlines and everybody told me in the comments that they'd rather take a Greyhound bus across the country than
fly on Spirit Airlines. So, I didn't think Spirit were that bad. So I've decided to have a bit
of a ride on Greyhound buses. I mean, if they're better than Spirit, then it can't be that bad, can it? I'm gonna be taking
today the longest route that Greyhound do from here in Los Angeles on the west coast of America, right the way across the country, over 3000 miles to New York City on the east coast of the US. It's gonna be about a 4
day trip riding on a bus. I hope that they've at
least got a bathroom. So this is where my journey here begins. The Greyhound station in Los Angeles. I've got a feeling I'm gonna be seeing quite a few of these over the next few days. Let's head inside. I dunno what I was thinking
when I bought this. - Okay, good morning people. Okay, your 1358's gonna take
you all the way to New York. - All the way to New York, huh? - [Noel] All the way to
New York, all the way. - Which city? - [Noel] New York. - New York? Oh. - [Noel] All the way. Thank you. Well, there we go. All right, so we're on
our way across the country for our four day mega trip
on board the Greyhound bus. I better start getting
comfy here now really. Since it's gonna be my
home for four days now. Four days, wow. Hope I can sleep. This is not too bad. It's quite comfortable,
actually, at the minute, although we are only
like, half an hour in. Not sure how that's gonna go. By the time we get to like late nights and I wanna sleep and
everything, but it's not too bad. It's quite a quiet bus
today, as you can see. The seats recline, we've got quite decent amount of leg room, although I'll say the seats recline, every time you sit
forward, it pops up again. We've got power sockets down here, that work and there's
wifi on the bus as well, which also works. As we rolled out of LA,
things were looking good. Jesus took the wheel,
the weather was great, the traffic was moving and apart from a particularly angry man a couple of rows ahead. [Man] Too easy. It's too easy. Everywhere is too easy. Well, things were looking pretty good as we rolled into San Bernardino, at least until Jesus had
to kick someone off the bus for smoking weed. We were soon back on the road though, and heading back out of LA. I'm actually really looking
forward to this journey. I have to be honest, seeing America from ground
level from coast to coast is gonna be amazing. And that's something that you don't get when you fly over it. Gonna be up close and personal, touching the dirt in every single state between here and New York. And I'm looking forward to this, I'm feeling really positive. So I don't know what
food is gonna be on offer along the way, or at
the stops along the way. We're gonna stop several
times, I know that much. I don't even know if we can
actually get on and off the bus at each place, I've bought a
few essential rations with me. So I've got me Cheez-Its, of
course, got to have Cheez-Its. Some Rolos, some high energy trail mix
if it gets that desperate, and then of course, I have a few bottles of
Gatorade to keep me through. Hopefully this will see me through today until we get to Phoenix tonight. As we rolled out of the
greater Los Angeles area, the Cheez-Its were flowing. All was calm on the bus as we
started to cross the desert towards the Arizona border. The scenery wasn't that
interesting, granted, but with the other passengers resting and angry man now calmed down, it seemed like no time at all before we rolled into the next stop. All right, we've made it. First food and rest stop on the trip. Blythe, California, five hours and we've not even left
the state of California yet and crossed into Arizona, that's next. We've got another 12 states
to do after this one. Five hours just to cross one state. I'm gonna try and find
something to eat very quickly. We've got 20 minutes here on the ground in Blythe, California. Isn't it a pretty sunset? Look at that, look. - [Speaker] One eternity later. - All right, food is got. I've gotta get back to the bus. World's slowest Taco Bell.
I've only got 20 minutes here. I don't want it to go without me. Made it. Now, there we go. Whoop whoop! First state line crossed,
we're now in Arizona. All right, Phoenix, Arizona. We had to get off the bus here because this is where they
clean the bus and swap drivers. Jesus took the wheel for
the first bit of the journey from LA to Phoenix, but he's gone now and Jesus has been replaced at the wheel by somebody else now. The next leg, so we've got
about an hour here, I think, in Phoenix. And then we pick up the bus again for the overnight run into New Mexico. I'm starting to get tired now, actually. Have not slept yet. I'm kind of quite achy as well, but I'm hoping that the next leg is just as quiet as that last leg and I might be able to get a
little bit of sleep on the bus, but I dunno, who knows. We will find out. As it turned out, Phoenix bus station at 11 o'clock at night, wasn't the nicest place to hang around. With a guy caught stealing from the shop who then kicked off when
he was asked to leave, I was strangely looking
forward to getting on board my metal cage for the next leg. Look at all this improper sketch
people hanging around here. Jesus. And one guy just tried
stealing from the shop and then when they got
security to go over, he started squealing and shouted. I wanna get out of here, man. Should be boarding
hopefully very, very soon. I'm trying to keep a very low profile. Tucked away here in the
corner because yeah, that's not the best place to be here at 11 o'clock at night,
Phoenix bus station. I think they're boarding
soon, so fingers crossed. All right, back on board. That was pretty sketchy there. Glad be back on the bus. And we'll be getting going soon, probably. Overnight run now to Albuquerque, and I'm hoping to get some sleep. As we pulled out of Phoenix bus station, I tried to get comfy and at least try to get
a little bit of sleep on the overnight part. It turns out, sleeping on a
bus that stops every hour or so is pretty much impossible. After a long, restless,
painful night on the bus, we reached New Mexico where the
sun finally started to rise. The scenery and the beautiful sunrise made everything look perfect. Well, almost everything. - [Man] Bus driver. You got a man back there
won't put their mask on. He need to get away from me.
- My mask is on. - [Man] His mask ain't on. You keep putting it down! - [Noel] With the two men at the back hurling racist insults at one another and threatening to knock each other out, we arrived into Albuquerque, New Mexico. Well, good morning from
Albuquerque, New Mexico. We almost made it to Albuquerque without a fight breaking out
on the bus, but nevermind. I didn't really get much sleep overnight. Slept about an hour at a time
in between all the stops. Trouble is every time the bus stops, all the lights come on and they announce where you
are and everything like that. So yeah, I got probably
four or five hours sleep. Off the bus here in Albuquerque while they do a bit of a
service change on the bus, refill it with fuel and
clean it and everything. And then we can get back on. And with another new
driver for the next leg. So yeah, that's it, I'll
get something to eat and day two starts here. So heading out of Albuquerque
now with another new driver, who's taking all the way to Oklahoma City, which is sort of, oh. Which is sort of three
states away from here, quite a long day driving today. Yeah, that was interesting. When we got on the bus
down in Albuquerque, there were undercover cops on the bus who were going around
searching everyone's bags and asking us where we
were going and stuff and then we've got a new driver who has basically said, if
anybody kicks off on the bus, then he's kicking him off
and he is not accepting it, wherever we are. He's just gonna stop the bus, pull over and they can get off. So this one seems a bit
more of a no nonsense type. So we shall see what happens
as we meander our way out again into the New Mexico desert. First stop today is about
two and a half hours away. So a long run today. If you enjoy my videos,
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adventures all around the world. The link's on the screen now. All right, first stop of the day, Tucumcari, New Mexico, middle of nowhere. We've literally seen nothing but desert for about two and a half hours. And then we've pulled into
this tiny little town, which has the holy grail, the
Mecca itself, of a maccas. Let's go and grab a maccas. All right, got me a maccas. There's the bus over there. I can't believe this bus
is taking me all the way from LA to New York, it's
incredible, isn't it? It's high with of North
America on this single bus. Pretty cool, isn't it? Or not, maybe, depending on whether you're actually having
to experience it or not, but nevermind. It's good fun if nothing else. So yeah, here in wherever
we are New Mexico, McDonald's, that's all that matters. Let's go back on the bus, get some food and move
on to the next stop. I think the next stop is Oklahoma City. Oh no, it's not, it's
Amarillo. Oh, I don't know. It's somewhere in between
here and Oklahoma, anyway. Let's go. After a short break in
middle of nowhere, New Mexico and with the smell of stale maccas adding to the already
interesting collection of aromas on the bus, it was time to get back
on the way to Amarillo. We just crossed into Texas, yeah. Which to be honest, by the way, looks pretty much the same as New Mexico. Where we've had the last six
hours, but yeah, Texas now. State number four. We were cracking through the states now, state number four and almost
halfway across the country. I was starting to settle into
the whole Greyhound thing. We hadn't had a fight on
the bus in several hours, it had been a full day since
somebody got thrown off, and Texas was outside the window. What else was there to go wrong? As it turned out, quite a lot, actually. Right, well they've just, we got to Amarillo and
they've just told us all that the bus isn't gonna
be going any further today. So no idea what's going on. I'll try and find out in a minute. This is gonna be a
premature end, couldn't it? I'm due to go to New York, do I need to get my bag off here, then? - Oh yeah, you do because
this is where I stopped. - Yeah, you're stopping here. Bus isn't going past here. So I need to grab my
bag off now, then, yeah? All right, okay, thank you. So absolutely no idea what's going on. It's just confusion and chaos all over. Effectively, they've just
turned everybody off the bus here at Amarillo, including our bags. Cause they said that the bus
isn't gonna go any further. So I'm not really sure at
the minute what I'm gonna do. And what Greyhound are gonna do for us, but we'll figure it out,
I suppose, in a minute. - I advise y'all to get
in with y'all tickets out. Hop in line with your tickets out. Oh, yeah. Start on that side. - Okay. No worries. Presume we're not gonna
get there on time then or anything. - Y'all are gonna be stuck
here for about a day or two. - Really? Okay. So I might end up-- - [Woman] Just because of, they're shutting the
roads down tomorrow, so. - Are they okay? Right. - [Woman] So we're trying
to get ahead of it today. - Okay. Right, okay. No problem. - [Woman] So I'll get
rooms booked and stuff and then I'll get you guys-- - Yeah, no problem. And I may end up getting a flight instead, but I'll let you know, yeah.
- Let me know. - All right, thank you. All right, so checking the
weather and everything, it looks like the reason it canceled is 'cause the weather's
moving in overnight, between here and Oklahoma basically, which means the roads all gonna be shut. And that therefore means if
I get stuck here tonight, she said, this is gonna be
at least a day, possibly two. Well, I've got like 24 hours
in NYC at the other end and I can't really miss that flight, it's my flight back to the UK. So yeah, I'm not entirely sure. All right, there is a
flight leaving in two hours from Amarillo to Dallas. And I figured if I can
get down to Dallas tonight and hopefully I can
get further on tomorrow to New York somehow. So I've just managed to get
a BA award redemption flight, 7,000 points for four quid
from Amarillo down to Dallas. So now, gonna try and figure out where this airport is in Amarillo and get in an Uber or something, if they've got 'em here, and figure out how we get down to Dallas to hopefully make it into New York. That's all right, don't worry. Hey, so I've managed to get
a flight down to Dallas. Hopefully I can move on
from there somehow and-- No. Just figured if I can get to Dallas, at least I can fly onto to New
York tomorrow or something. If the weather's gonna be
coming in here tonight, I don't really wanna be stuck here. - [Woman] Yeah. - How far is it to the airport from here? - [Woman] It's about 30 Minutes. - 30 Minutes? I guess I'd
better get an Uber or something. You have Uber presumably here, yeah? - [Woman] Yeah, if you do
the Uber now, it'll be here-- - Yeah, instant, all right. Lovely. Thank you so much. And good luck sorting
it all out anyway, so. All right. Thank you, have a good day. All right, well, There we go. I was hoping for a really
nice little trip around, a last little stay here in Amarillo and then a move up to Oklahoma. But it doesn't sound like
anybody's going anywhere past Amarillo today. So just waiting now for the Uber to come and take me over to the airport and then hopefully get on
this flight down to Dallas. - Hello.
- Noel? - Yes, how are you? Thank you very much. Yeah.
- You got it? - Perfect. Thank you so much. Well,
- Good luck. - Yeah and you too. Hope
you enjoy the weather. You get to enjoy playing
with your snowblower. Try not to scratch your
car up. There we go. Awesome. Thank you very
much, sir, have a good day. - You too.
- Thank you, bye bye. All right. Made it to Amarillo Airport. Let's go and see if we can
find the way out of Amarillo. What an adventure. Right through security
here, Amarillo Airport. Nice little airport, this is. So I wasn't expected to be here. This is the last place
that I wanted to be, right now in an airport departure lounge, strangely enough. I'm absolutely gutted, I'll be
honest, that it got canceled. I really wanted to do it. It wasn't gonna be fun by any
stretch of the imagination to do that bus from LA all the way across the
country to New York. And it wasn't gonna be fun, it
wasn't gonna be comfortable, but I wanted to prove
that I could do it and... Just, I've not. And I just feel awful that... Just see what we can do to try and rescue the rest of the trip and maybe come back and try
and do the bus again properly another time, I don't know. I don't think I've ever
felt quite this deflated at the prospect of getting on a plane. This was the one flight
I'd hoped not to be on. Still, at least I had
a seat out of Amarillo before the weather hits. Or as it turned out, when
I got to it, perhaps not. I nearly didn't make it on board. As you saw, my seat was kind of unusable. So I just had to stand
out in the jet bridge and wait for them to finish boarding and find me a spare seat. Thankfully they found one. So, relax. Fingers crossed we get to Dallas now. I've had enough now. Oh, when will this day end? So we've landed and we've
pulled onto the stand, but nobody can get off because
the jet bridge is broken. So they're waiting for
maintenance to come and fix it. So now we're stuck on the plane. Yay. 20 minutes now, since
we've pulled onto stand and we've still not got it fixed. I mean, it's not like we're on a plane that hasn't got the steps built
into the door or anything. And I wonder why they can't
let us down the stairs into the jet bridge, like
they would anywhere else, but anyway. Just want a bed. I just want to go to bed. Been up for two days now, just need sleep. Eventually, they fixed the air bridge and I headed across the airport hotel to try and get some rest. All right, made it. Oh, a bed! An actual, actual,
actual, oh, an actual bed. Oh my goodness, that feels good. I don't want to get up now. I'm gonna have to 'cause I
need to go get some food. Right, we're in the room. In the . Yeah, we are in the room here at the Fort Worth Airport Marriot now. So I'm gonna get some sleep. There's a couple of flights in the morning that I think might sell off seats on them. I've just checked tonight
and there's seats on them. So I'm gonna figure out
which one I'm gonna take. And then tomorrow morning
we'll head up to New York to actually finish the video
that we set off to start. So yeah, let's get a bit of rest. And then in the morning, let's figure out how we
can get up to New York and hope this weather
doesn't close in overnight, but for now, let's go get something to eat and I'll see you in a minute. The next morning, the news was grim. Oklahoma and Missouri had a
huge dumping of snow overnight. All the interstates were
closed and the bad news was, it was now heading south towards Dallas. Good morning from Dallas Fort Worth. I actually, I got some sleep last night. I still feel absolutely rubbish, I'm absolutely beaten up and
battered and sore all over from yesterday and the day before. The day before bus journey, I can't remember even how
long I was on that thing. But anyway, the winter storm has hit where we were gonna be very hard. They've had like a foot, two
foot of snow in some places all the way up through Missouri, which is the route we were gonna take. So it's kind of a good job we
didn't end up getting the bus because the roads that way are all closed and they're under a feet of snow, it really, really isn't a good situation. So it was good to get out of it. The bad news is that that
weather is headed this way, now, down towards Dallas. And they reckon that by this afternoon, then we're gonna be getting
it down here as well. Which means now I'm kind
of in a race against time. I've gotta get out of
here onwards to New York as quickly I can, really. So, and what I'm gonna do in a minute is start and head over to the airport and have a look at what flights are going and hopefully get onboard one
out of here up to New York, to where we're supposed to be. Let's go. I made it back to Dallas Fort Worth. I've managed to get
myself on the Delta flight that leaves from here shortly. There is a few flights normally, but the one I'm on is the last one. From this afternoon onwards, they're all canceled
'cause of the weather. So hopefully we can get out just in time. So let's head through
and take a Delta flight up to New York. DFW airport is crazy busy today. Everyone's trying to get out
of here before that storm hits. So yeah, good job, I got
a seat really, I think. All right, so the plane is here. Where is it? There it is. Able to take 220 or C series
up to LaGuardia, New York and it's on time, which is good. So hopefully we should
get out of here on time and I've also just have a
thing through on my phone. So they've just upgraded me as well, so that's quite nice to know. So, just looking forward
to getting there now. Hi, good morning.
Afternoon, whatever it is. - How are you?
- Thank you very much. I'm good. How are you? - Good.
- Good. - [Steward] Hello. - [Noel] So then on board, the last leg of this
journey across to New York, and certainly not in
the manner I'd intended. Somehow despite the pain, the discomfort and the sheer brutality that the Greyhound trip
across the country gives, I'd still much rather be
40,000 feet down there seeing America from ground level, seeing all the people
that ride on the Greyhound and all the little towns that
make up this amazing country between the west coast and the east. And instead, well, we're in the middle of
a winter storm here, at 40,000 feet, cruising across
the last bit of the journey. At the moment, I'm feeling
quite disheartened. I really did want to
get that trip finished, but at the end of the day, I'm leaving this trip now
and I'm finishing this trip with a newfound excitement to try this. And I have determination that
I am actually gonna do this. And I am gonna prove that I can cross the entire continental
America on a Greyhound bus. That is now, it is just
something I need to do. So this isn't the end of
this story in the slightest and we are gonna do it. - [Intercom] Ladies and gentlemen, it is our pleasure to welcome you to New York, LaGuardia Airport. - Made it, New York. Finally. Every time I've ever
flown through LaGuardia, it's like a building site. Every single time, it's never changed. What are they actually doing here? They're literally
rebuilding the whole thing and then just knocking it
and starting again each time, I dunno, crazy. As always, a massive
thank you to my patrons, for helping to make these videos possible. You can join them at the
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me and much, much more. Finally made it to New York. Stupid Greyhound got canceled. I flew in on Delta, New York, New York, New York. New York made it, albeit
not entirely in the way that I had hoped to. Thank you, Greyhound
for that, but I'm here. And I'm safe and at the end of the day, I'm here a little bit early as well. Cause I should have
been in tomorrow morning and naturally, I've got in tonight, because even with all the cancellations, it's still quicker it turns out. Shockingly, to take a flight than it does to take the Greyhound across the country. But I'm here, Times Square in New York, the final destination. So the question is, is taking a Greyhound bus any
better than riding Spirit? Well, I suppose when I flew Spirit, I arrived on time and I actually arrived and in relative comfort as well. And that's kind of three things that I didn't get on Greyhound. But one thing that I did get on Greyhound was an incredible experience seeing at least half of the
country from ground level. So I definitely want to
come and try that again, but let me know what you
thought to Greyhound buses down in the comments. And also, I want to hear
your Greyhound stories. I've heard so many, everybody seems to have a story about riding on the
dog across the country. So let me know your best Greyhound stories down in the comments below. In the meantime, I'm off
to go and get a drink, get something to eat
and some sleep, I think. Thanks so much for watching. Take care and I'll you on the next one. Bye for now.
