My fondest memory of crossing over the border from Montreal on a Greyhound into the US was being at the customs building and some young college kid for some reason owed $10 (American Dollars) for some reason to the CBP. He was Canadian and only had Canadian cash on him and they didn't accept Canadian Dollars and there was no ATM or exchange for him within the CBP building. So we all heard the border guard tell him to basically go beg the other Greyhound riders for $10 to be able to cross into the USA. So he went and started asking people like a sad beggar. I gave him a crisp Alexander Hamilton since if I was in that situation, I'd hope someone would do the same for me. On the bus later, he gave me $20 (Canadian Dollars) and I was thrilled due to the fact that I made like $6 or $7 (American Dollars), due to the exchange rate, by being considerate to a fellow rider.
White River Junction served as the location for the filming of director D.W. Griffith's 1920 silent romantic drama film Way Down East, in part filmed on the Connecticut and White Rivers, starring Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess. It is an adaptation of the melodramatic 19th century play of the same name by Lottie Blair Parker. Way Down East is the fourth-highest grossing silent film in cinema history, taking in more than 4.5 million at the box office in 1920. Montpelier is the smallest state capital by population! Yup, more people live in Juneau! Montpelier is famously also the only US state capital without a McDonald's, although neighboring Barre has McD's locations. The first permanent settlement of what's now Montpelier began in May 1787, when Colonel Jacob Davis and General Parley Davis arrived from Charlton, MA. General Davis surveyed the land, while Colonel Davis cleared forest and built a large log house by the Winooski River. His family moved in the following winter. Colonel Davis selected the name "Montpelier" after the French city of Montpellier, capital of the department of Hérault, because of loving the French for their aid to the colonies during the revolution. Montpelier was the hometown of George Dewey, the hero of Battle of Manila Bay in the Spanish-American War, who was Admiral of the Navy, the only person in United States history to have attained that rank! He won the Battle of Manila Bay with the loss of only a single crewman on the American side! The Winooski River, which drains an area between Burlington and Montpelier, comes from the Abenaki word winoskik meaning "at wild onion land"
woah, that means Winooski is a very distant cousin of Chicago, which also comes from a word for wild onions, in Potawatomi, which is also an Algonquian language like Abenaki is
@@thesamarawaters you’re unfortunately wildly wrong regarding Chicago, it means “place of wild skunk onions” Thus, we “Windy Citizens” are actually from “Skunkville! Or Skunkton!” [skunk (n.) common weasel-like mammal of North America that emits a fetid odor when threatened, 1630s, squunck, from a southern New England Algonquian language (perhaps Massachusett) word, from Proto-Algonquian */šeka:kwa/, from */šek-/ "to urinate" + */-a:kw/ "fox" [Bright].] [Chicago] town founded in 1833, named from a Canadian French form of an Algonquian word, which, according to Bright, is either Fox /sheka:ko:heki/ "place of the wild onion," or Ojibwa shika:konk "at the skunk place" (sometimes rendered "place of the bad smell"). The Ojibwa "skunk" word is distantly related to the New England Algonquian word that yielded Modern English skunk (n.). Related: Chicagoan (1847; Chicagoian is from 1859).
I rode greyhound a lot over the years, I remember the first time Pittsburgh to Atlanta in 1971. The lights looked so beautiful at night going through different towns and cities. Haven't rode one since about 92. The drivers were always courteous, I hear that's not the case now! Not easy to sleep, but I liked to sit in the back and sip on a pint of whiskey!
this is like one of those travel vlog channels but the trips are actually mostly affordable to the average person also that exchange with the customs officer and the philosophy student was hilarious lol
I've done it a lot of times but Montréal to Philadelphia via NYC as opposed to Boston. Back in 2008, it was just me, my MP3 player loaded with long multi-hour trance DJ mixes, and a BlackBerry.
I'm taking an overnight trip next weekend San Antonio TX-New Orleans LA for a Cruise......It wasn't my first choice, I was hoping to fly the night before, but Taylor Swift is playing at the Superdome that same weekend so hotel rooms were RIDICULOUSLY expensive, and really didn't want to get up at 3am the day of and take a 5:30am flight (Which also wasn't super cheap either....Probably high demand that weekend) so I (Reluctantly) decided to pay the $80 for Greyhound. I've taken overnights before, and after popping some Melatonin, can manage at least some decent power naps throughout the night...At least enough to get me through the day. Haven't rode Greyhound in like 10-12 years so it should be interesting....But at least I am flying back to SA after spending a few days in NO post Cruise
Miles, I am currently at the tail end of a transit-oriented trip which has taken me to Boston and New York so far. I've been thinking about your videos all week, and I ate at the South Street Diner just because you went there
you actually won the lottery on a mtl-boston bus that didnt cancel last minute or delay by 2+ hours. specifically that direction is usually sooo unreliable
I had great time on Greyhound Bus from nyc to albany, NY on October 1st, 2023 when I went volunteer for Albany Vegfest, vegan festival. If you come to Japan, come to Kobe Airport and maybe we can take variety of subway bus because I'm free pass except for jr train, Hankyu Railway, Hanshin Railway.
Ahhh fun times. When I travelled Canada and the US when I visited from Australia in 2018 I got to the border and the whole system was down for hours. They let the bus through with all the US citizens onboard and everybody else like myself had to wait hours for the system to be back up and running and then they had to send another bus for the rest of us to get to Boston. Was an eventual and very long day. Of note, the gruff and overbearing US border patrol agents were not very sympathetic to non-US citizens.
Ah yes, wise classical philosopher....Jordan Peterson 💀 That "Farine Five Roses" sign you saw is a Montreal icon. Farine means flour. Ogilvie Flour Mills opened a mill in Montreal's harbor in 1946, and the Farine Five Roses sign was erected above it in 1948. ADM bought Ogilvie in 1994, sold the Five Roses brand to JM Smucker in 2006, and the sign faced uncertainty since ADM still owned the mill after they sold the brand. But thankfully Smucker spent nearly a million on keeping it lit, and the sign was designated an architectural feature by Ville-Marie in 2020. Manchester is, along with the city of Nashua, one of two seats of the most populous county in NH, Hillsborough County. Manchester-Boston Regional Airport opened in 1927 when the city's Board of Mayor and Aldermen put $15,000 towards the project. By October, a board of aviation had been founded, and ground was broken at an 84-acre site. It took only a month for two 1,800-foot runways to be constructed. In 1940, the airport was chosen as an Army Air Force base. At its peak, 6,000 troops were stationed there, including the 45th Bombardment Group, which practiced bombing runs on what is now New Boston Air Force Station and an anti-submarine squadron that destroyed at least two Nazi subs off the eastern coast. It was renamed Grenier Field after Manchester native Lt. Jean B. Grenier, who died in a training mission in 1934. Civilian use returned in 1951. The facility was known as Manchester Airport until April 2006 when it added "Boston Regional". You crossed back into the US at the Highgate Springs-St. Armand/Philipsburg Border Crossing, which connects the towns of Philipsburg, Quebec with Highgate Springs, Vermont. Philipsburg, first known as Missiskoui Bay, was settled in 1784 and was reportedly the first settlement in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. Saint-Armand, earlier known as Moore's Corners, was the site of the Skirmish at Moore's Corners, an 1837 battle in the Lower Canada Rebellion where 80 Patriotes marched into Canada from Swanton, Vermont intending to join other rebels and were intercepted. Even before construction of the 4-lane highway, this crossing was the primary route between Montreal and Boston, because it was where US Route 7 crossed into Canada. The US port of entry has a cattle inspection facility
I wonder if there's a market for a Boston to Montreal (and elsewhere) "luxury" bus, like with large reclining seats, maybe curtains. Or even seats like Amtrak has on long distance trains. I took the Adirondack from New York to Montreal in October, 2000, when they were still running heritage equipment on it (do this if you haven't, it's really scenic). The seats were larger than regular Amfleet seats, and the cafe car had stools along the wall so it doubled as a lounge. While a bus cannot replicate that, it would still be nice to have more room. The border stop on the train was different. The train stopped in a cornfield a few miles into Quebec (despite there being a highway border station right where the train enters Canada) where Canadian border agents boarded and went seat to seat checking passports and interviewing passengers.
I only rode Greyhound once in my life. It was during one of my many failed VIA Rail attempts (this was when the entire VIA network shut down because of a protest in BC...?). I took an extremely crowded bus from Ottawa to Toronto. That same trip, I was going to take the train between Toronto and Detroit and back; but I just rented a car. Aside from how busy it was (presumably because there were no trains running) , I didn't have any issues with it I seem to recall it wasn't much longer than the train either (which says more about VIA's terribleness than anything good about Greyhound).
I did this in 2015 when Greyhound still operated across Canada lol. Apart from having around 5 people on the bus at the border and waiting around 45 minutes to get customs to let us through, it wasn't that bad.
I've done Vancouver Seattle quite a few times on Greyhound and other lines and yeah usually you can get back on the bus once clearing CBP but going to Canada usually you have to wait in a holding pen for a bit. It seems CBP does a much quicker inspection of the bus (if any) but usually CBSA takes longer and is more through...
At least Montreal rebuilt their bus station (somewhat) recently to something that isn't a smelly dank shithole. The old bus terminal (that was right next door) was so cramped and awful
That seemed really decent for Greyhound. My last experience from Indianapolis to Chicago was a little less... stellar. Seating was assigned but not enforced combined with some of the rudest passengers imaginable who snapped at people with the biggest persecution complexes for simply asking them. Like seating was assigned and it said so all over and you're sitting in someone's seat, how dare they "cause problems" by daring to ask about it! On top of that, two people (one of whom was ironically bitching about Greyhound the whole time) that were playing obnoxious videos on their phones out loud with no headphones simultaneously!
Love the video! I'm always trying to game out ways of avoiding driving to/from Montreal from the Hub. There's recently been chatter about launching a (slow) Boston-Montreal overnight train over existing freight tracks. I'm not holding my breath... I wonder if taking the Greyhound from Montreal to Saint Albans VT and then taking Amtrak to Springfield to connect to Boston would be feasible. If the MBTA ever gets out to Springfield as is planned, that could work. Lotsa connections though.
manchester new hampshire mentioned what the hell is a mbta commuter rail/adequate public transit also, our airport is weird. it IS large enough to be converted to a smaller int'l airport, but its domestic only as of writing.
If Quebec had its shit together, travel between Montréal and Burlington, would be seamless. The A35 still isn't finished after several decades. Nevermind adding Amtrak from Burlington to Montréal.
It’d be great if Amtrak restored Boston-Montreal service, but there may be too much lifted track in NH between Lebanon and Manchester to make it work anymore. You’d need to turn a lot of rail trail miles back into active rail lines, and there would probably be community pushback.
I rode a Greyhound for the first time in a long time recently and paid extra for the reserved seat and I only realized halfway through the ride, that I was put in the wrong row (it was only one off but still) so yeah reserved seating is a scam. Love the Bahston accent!
If you own a radio or a radio player, I like to amuse myself listening to Montreal's local French speaking radio stations. Just a suggestion if you are bored.
Miles! I was in Winnemucca NV yesterday (California Zephyr) during a fresh air break and another passenger and I were talking. I mentioned I thought this was the least used station, maybe. And he said he watches your channel too! You are legendary!
This is going on my outdated knowledge, but when I lived in Toronto a lot of people would prefer to fly out of the Buffalo airport than from Pearson due to the huge difference in airfare costs if they were traveling in the States. You def could take a bus from Toronto to the Buffalo airport and Google tells me it still exists! I'd wager that's the same for the Manchester airport - still blows my mind that the cheap fare is worth it that much to depart from a regional airport in the States than from YYZ. But to each their own.
I rode Greyhound Canada (out of business today) to Montreal from Detroit about 2 weeks before covid shut down. Departed Detroit at 1:30AM and got to Montreal at 6:30 PM. I was able to catch an earlier bus connection in Ottawa. Overall, not a bad trip. Way better than US Greyhound. Greyhound in the US today is a national disgrace.
I've taken this route between Boston and WRJ both directions. The route itself isn't bad, but the schedule for it sucks. I'm not sure if they've changed it but it used to only run twice a day in both directions at really inconvenient times. And its constantly listed as "Sold Out" despite almost never being filled to capacity. 🤷♂
I did this route during the day round trip this summer and was surprised at how pleasant it was. I went in with zero expectation of enjoyment but honestly it was really nice.
Miles often talks about being made to feel like a pariah as a foot passenger on a ferry. I took this very same bus to Boston this summer, my first time crossing into the states on a bus, and I don't think I've ever felt like more of a pariah at the border. In a car they ask you a couple of questions and you're on your way in most cases, but on the bus you have to get off and drag all your luggage with you into a crowded holding pen and then they eventually grill the heck out of you - and I saw multiple people have all their luggage emptied out onto a table. As with most things in North America, if you find yourself outside of a car society has determined that you've done something wrong and deserve everything that happens to you. Do not recommend 😳
The us border agent checking my passport was sure interested of all the places stamped in my passport. He was asking me if I met any interesting people in Egypt, maybe seeing if I had some al qaeda ties or something
25 minutes late on an international Greyhound trip is pretty good. And practically every intercity bus company is overzealous with the AC. During the summer, the AC on Megabus (RIP) was so high that it felt like I was in Antarctica.
I recently took a greyhound from Boston to New York wish I had this experience ~2-3 hours late departing Boston really wish I paid extra for the amtrak
OMG I remember that commerical. We used to take the bus to NC every year and we never took Greyhound always Trailways then Greyhound bought Trailways and suddenly our next trip was an "adventure". Fun fact, if the drivers are poorly trained enough your mom can talk them into dropping you off directly at grandma's house.
I once boarded a Greyhound bus where there was exactly one available seat. It was next to a man of size like myself, so I rode from Louisville to Columbus with one butt cheek hanging out in the aisle
5:30 "Do you know Jordan Peterson?" Now I can't get Kermit the Frog out of my head: "Go clean up your room, Mister Miles! Don't take that commie cattle bus, mister! The Serpent DNA is afraid of the Greyhound!"
I went greyhound round trip boston-montreal 35 years ago and it was miserable. Can't imagine doing it at 60. A year later I went round trip to Orlando! like $59 each way if i remember.
@MilesinTransit so it's another UA-cam channel, they have gone all 193 u.n. recognized countries in alphabetical order and have just finished their last Zimbabwe in their vids in the transition screens they have little explosions like that.
They really should get the Boston to Montreal train going, or even bring back that old VIA service that ran across Maine, but actually make a stop (of course that would mean 2 border station stops though.)
The border crossing on the U.S. end has to be made better than what it is now for such a train from both cities to be feasible (the Toronto-Chicago train ended because of this long wait at the border.)
Being from central MA and going to school in Montréal, I've done this bus ride dozens of time. You really captured the essence of my experience doing this trip over the years. In particular, the crossing from Canada into the US is always infuriating, just based on hearing the level of questioning that everyone is subject to, US citizens and non citizens alike. But overall, I agree, because of the border crossing and the high price, I think you tend to get a lot less of the trademark greyhound misery and crazyness. I do have to mention though, that since the FlixBus merger, they added a nonstop trip which is a godsend. You waste so much time stopping on this trip for stops that basically no one uses (Montpelier, Burlington/Manchester airports, Hannover, Concord, I'm looking at you).
I think they just added the nonstop option this summer and it still detours to stop at Manchester Airport and Montpellier, which I really don't understand... I've ridden this trip for several times and never noticed a group larger than 5 in these two stops
It's the Amtrak upgrade system that lets you put in a bid for a higher class of service; if you do the lowest amount it calls it a "poor bid". But I made it the sponsor code because I thought it'd be funny.
Dear Miles, I love these videos but I really would like to be able to read your Patreon credits. The font you chose is......uh.....hard to read. Could you perhaps paste a text comment in each video of the Patrons you include in the credits? Or maybe is there a website you could put a text file on?
"I'd like greyhound to enforce assigned seats" yea buddy have fun with that i'll take them not enforcing it, cause well, ain't no 20D on a greyhound bus, and i'm not riding in the bathroom back to NYC
@@MilesinTransit greyhound overbooks and creates fake seats when they do so. so theres not 20 rows in most busses, but they might print 20D on your ticket instead of a real seat Basically i'm happy they don't enforce seats otherwise i'd be stuck in Albany, NY overnight. One or two people didn't make the bus (arriving too late after doors closed) and all seats were full. and I ain't having it be me left in albany because I have a fake seat printed on my ticket. It's gunna be the folks arriving 2 minutes before the bus leaves and getting screwed.
Miles is one of the transit UA-camrs of all time
You're right... he is one of them.
@@rmdvto He Is a Legend
Agreed!
miles, please never change. that was the best sponcon I've seen this month
Thank you so much!
My fondest memory of crossing over the border from Montreal on a Greyhound into the US was being at the customs building and some young college kid for some reason owed $10 (American Dollars) for some reason to the CBP. He was Canadian and only had Canadian cash on him and they didn't accept Canadian Dollars and there was no ATM or exchange for him within the CBP building. So we all heard the border guard tell him to basically go beg the other Greyhound riders for $10 to be able to cross into the USA. So he went and started asking people like a sad beggar. I gave him a crisp Alexander Hamilton since if I was in that situation, I'd hope someone would do the same for me. On the bus later, he gave me $20 (Canadian Dollars) and I was thrilled due to the fact that I made like $6 or $7 (American Dollars), due to the exchange rate, by being considerate to a fellow rider.
Karma, she is swift.
Bravo.
5:31 “oh you’re a philosophy student! do you know jordan peterson” 💀💀💀💀
i lol'd so hard like wtf
@@Domhnall_A_Ghalltachd Fr
@@daviiiid.r Doesn't really help with the stereotypes of the Border guards.
Ohhhhhhh brother
Finally, Miles manages to complete a Greyhound trip without anything going wrong!
Yet he inserts an explosion at the end of the intro like it was going to be really bad. I thumbed down the video because of that.
I inserted an explosion at the end of the intro because I thought it was funny.
White River Junction served as the location for the filming of director D.W. Griffith's 1920 silent romantic drama film Way Down East, in part filmed on the Connecticut and White Rivers, starring Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess. It is an adaptation of the melodramatic 19th century play of the same name by Lottie Blair Parker. Way Down East is the fourth-highest grossing silent film in cinema history, taking in more than 4.5 million at the box office in 1920.
Montpelier is the smallest state capital by population! Yup, more people live in Juneau! Montpelier is famously also the only US state capital without a McDonald's, although neighboring Barre has McD's locations. The first permanent settlement of what's now Montpelier began in May 1787, when Colonel Jacob Davis and General Parley Davis arrived from Charlton, MA. General Davis surveyed the land, while Colonel Davis cleared forest and built a large log house by the Winooski River. His family moved in the following winter. Colonel Davis selected the name "Montpelier" after the French city of Montpellier, capital of the department of Hérault, because of loving the French for their aid to the colonies during the revolution. Montpelier was the hometown of George Dewey, the hero of Battle of Manila Bay in the Spanish-American War, who was Admiral of the Navy, the only person in United States history to have attained that rank! He won the Battle of Manila Bay with the loss of only a single crewman on the American side! The Winooski River, which drains an area between Burlington and Montpelier, comes from the Abenaki word winoskik meaning "at wild onion land"
Now that is a fun fact!
woah, that means Winooski is a very distant cousin of Chicago, which also comes from a word for wild onions, in Potawatomi, which is also an Algonquian language like Abenaki is
@@thesamarawaters you’re unfortunately wildly wrong regarding Chicago, it means “place of wild skunk onions” Thus, we “Windy Citizens” are actually from “Skunkville! Or Skunkton!”
[skunk (n.)
common weasel-like mammal of North America that emits a fetid odor when threatened, 1630s, squunck, from a southern New England Algonquian language (perhaps Massachusett) word, from Proto-Algonquian */šeka:kwa/, from */šek-/ "to urinate" + */-a:kw/ "fox" [Bright].]
[Chicago]
town founded in 1833, named from a Canadian French form of an Algonquian word, which, according to Bright, is either Fox /sheka:ko:heki/ "place of the wild onion," or Ojibwa shika:konk "at the skunk place" (sometimes rendered "place of the bad smell"). The Ojibwa "skunk" word is distantly related to the New England Algonquian word that yielded Modern English skunk (n.). Related: Chicagoan (1847; Chicagoian is from 1859).
You rode by my house in vermont right off 89 and didn't say hi. This feels like a disservice, never watching again!
Yeah, how rude of him not to stop...
He went by my house too
Absolutely. He wants you to watch his video but can’t make the effort to say hello on the way by.
Darn
Are you sure he didn't at least wave?
There's a neat ferry you can take from Burlington to Plattsburgh or vice versa too over the lake Champlain, $17 I think.
Riding Greyhound equals hell on earth.
I rode greyhound a lot over the years, I remember the first time Pittsburgh to Atlanta in 1971. The lights looked so beautiful at night going through different towns and cities. Haven't rode one since about 92. The drivers were always courteous, I hear that's not the case now! Not easy to sleep, but I liked to sit in the back and sip on a pint of whiskey!
I just took a Greyhound bus from Albuquerque to Houston and it took 24 hours and 3 buses across Texas.
this is like one of those travel vlog channels but the trips are actually mostly affordable to the average person
also that exchange with the customs officer and the philosophy student was hilarious lol
I've done it a lot of times but Montréal to Philadelphia via NYC as opposed to Boston. Back in 2008, it was just me, my MP3 player loaded with long multi-hour trance DJ mixes, and a BlackBerry.
This makes me miss both cities (Boston 2022, Montreal 2023) I’m heading to Montreal maybe in 2025, so that’s a win.
I'm taking an overnight trip next weekend San Antonio TX-New Orleans LA for a Cruise......It wasn't my first choice, I was hoping to fly the night before, but Taylor Swift is playing at the Superdome that same weekend so hotel rooms were RIDICULOUSLY expensive, and really didn't want to get up at 3am the day of and take a 5:30am flight (Which also wasn't super cheap either....Probably high demand that weekend) so I (Reluctantly) decided to pay the $80 for Greyhound. I've taken overnights before, and after popping some Melatonin, can manage at least some decent power naps throughout the night...At least enough to get me through the day. Haven't rode Greyhound in like 10-12 years so it should be interesting....But at least I am flying back to SA after spending a few days in NO post Cruise
Good luck!!
I've been waiting for this
I can answer the title personally with one word - 'hell'
Miles, I am currently at the tail end of a transit-oriented trip which has taken me to Boston and New York so far. I've been thinking about your videos all week, and I ate at the South Street Diner just because you went there
I went there the other day after dropping a friend off at south station. It's pretty good, i hope you enjoyed it :)
That's awesome!!
No bathroom review!? Ill let it slide this once, you're lucky that ska always puts me in a good mood!
you actually won the lottery on a mtl-boston bus that didnt cancel last minute or delay by 2+ hours. specifically that direction is usually sooo unreliable
I havent even watched the video yet but I could not imagine a nightmare worse than a Greyhound redeye with US customs!!!
I had great time on Greyhound Bus from nyc to albany, NY on October 1st, 2023 when I went volunteer for Albany Vegfest, vegan festival. If you come to Japan, come to Kobe Airport and maybe we can take variety of subway bus because I'm free pass except for jr train, Hankyu Railway, Hanshin Railway.
I love your channel and these type of videos. Happy Fall🍁From San🌴Diego!!!
Awesome video.
Thanks!
Ahhh fun times. When I travelled Canada and the US when I visited from Australia in 2018 I got to the border and the whole system was down for hours. They let the bus through with all the US citizens onboard and everybody else like myself had to wait hours for the system to be back up and running and then they had to send another bus for the rest of us to get to Boston. Was an eventual and very long day. Of note, the gruff and overbearing US border patrol agents were not very sympathetic to non-US citizens.
Ah yes, wise classical philosopher....Jordan Peterson 💀 That "Farine Five Roses" sign you saw is a Montreal icon. Farine means flour. Ogilvie Flour Mills opened a mill in Montreal's harbor in 1946, and the Farine Five Roses sign was erected above it in 1948. ADM bought Ogilvie in 1994, sold the Five Roses brand to JM Smucker in 2006, and the sign faced uncertainty since ADM still owned the mill after they sold the brand. But thankfully Smucker spent nearly a million on keeping it lit, and the sign was designated an architectural feature by Ville-Marie in 2020. Manchester is, along with the city of Nashua, one of two seats of the most populous county in NH, Hillsborough County. Manchester-Boston Regional Airport opened in 1927 when the city's Board of Mayor and Aldermen put $15,000 towards the project. By October, a board of aviation had been founded, and ground was broken at an 84-acre site. It took only a month for two 1,800-foot runways to be constructed. In 1940, the airport was chosen as an Army Air Force base. At its peak, 6,000 troops were stationed there, including the 45th Bombardment Group, which practiced bombing runs on what is now New Boston Air Force Station and an anti-submarine squadron that destroyed at least two Nazi subs off the eastern coast. It was renamed Grenier Field after Manchester native Lt. Jean B. Grenier, who died in a training mission in 1934. Civilian use returned in 1951. The facility was known as Manchester Airport until April 2006 when it added "Boston Regional".
You crossed back into the US at the Highgate Springs-St. Armand/Philipsburg Border Crossing, which connects the towns of Philipsburg, Quebec with Highgate Springs, Vermont. Philipsburg, first known as Missiskoui Bay, was settled in 1784 and was reportedly the first settlement in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. Saint-Armand, earlier known as Moore's Corners, was the site of the Skirmish at Moore's Corners, an 1837 battle in the Lower Canada Rebellion where 80 Patriotes marched into Canada from Swanton, Vermont intending to join other rebels and were intercepted. Even before construction of the 4-lane highway, this crossing was the primary route between Montreal and Boston, because it was where US Route 7 crossed into Canada. The US port of entry has a cattle inspection facility
Thanks for the info Kim Jong-Un!
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I wonder if there's a market for a Boston to Montreal (and elsewhere) "luxury" bus, like with large reclining seats, maybe curtains. Or even seats like Amtrak has on long distance trains. I took the Adirondack from New York to Montreal in October, 2000, when they were still running heritage equipment on it (do this if you haven't, it's really scenic). The seats were larger than regular Amfleet seats, and the cafe car had stools along the wall so it doubled as a lounge. While a bus cannot replicate that, it would still be nice to have more room. The border stop on the train was different. The train stopped in a cornfield a few miles into Quebec (despite there being a highway border station right where the train enters Canada) where Canadian border agents boarded and went seat to seat checking passports and interviewing passengers.
I only rode Greyhound once in my life. It was during one of my many failed VIA Rail attempts (this was when the entire VIA network shut down because of a protest in BC...?). I took an extremely crowded bus from Ottawa to Toronto.
That same trip, I was going to take the train between Toronto and Detroit and back; but I just rented a car.
Aside from how busy it was (presumably because there were no trains running) , I didn't have any issues with it I seem to recall it wasn't much longer than the train either (which says more about VIA's terribleness than anything good about Greyhound).
you missed out on the deli foods at white river junction, I enjoy stopping there just for their prepared hot food items!
It was 4:40 in the morning!!!!!!
@ next time, trust me!
I'm glad my hometown of Manchester New Hampshire got a shout out on this video we do have a Greyhound stop downtown as well
Nice work. See u at south station. See you when u pass lecmere sometime. Beers waiting
I did this in 2015 when Greyhound still operated across Canada lol. Apart from having around 5 people on the bus at the border and waiting around 45 minutes to get customs to let us through, it wasn't that bad.
I’m sure your sponsor really appreciates you making it all about it being on the floor! 😂 1:47 LOL I was dying laughing!
I've done Vancouver Seattle quite a few times on Greyhound and other lines and yeah usually you can get back on the bus once clearing CBP but going to Canada usually you have to wait in a holding pen for a bit. It seems CBP does a much quicker inspection of the bus (if any) but usually CBSA takes longer and is more through...
Banger ❤
That comment on Jordan Peterson… as a Vermonter, it’s not that surprising. Mostly townies from Swanton at that crossing😂
Poor Bid!
Great video miles 😁👍👍
Thanks!
At least Montreal rebuilt their bus station (somewhat) recently to something that isn't a smelly dank shithole. The old bus terminal (that was right next door) was so cramped and awful
That seemed really decent for Greyhound. My last experience from Indianapolis to Chicago was a little less... stellar. Seating was assigned but not enforced combined with some of the rudest passengers imaginable who snapped at people with the biggest persecution complexes for simply asking them. Like seating was assigned and it said so all over and you're sitting in someone's seat, how dare they "cause problems" by daring to ask about it! On top of that, two people (one of whom was ironically bitching about Greyhound the whole time) that were playing obnoxious videos on their phones out loud with no headphones simultaneously!
Love the video! I'm always trying to game out ways of avoiding driving to/from Montreal from the Hub. There's recently been chatter about launching a (slow) Boston-Montreal overnight train over existing freight tracks. I'm not holding my breath... I wonder if taking the Greyhound from Montreal to Saint Albans VT and then taking Amtrak to Springfield to connect to Boston would be feasible. If the MBTA ever gets out to Springfield as is planned, that could work. Lotsa connections though.
manchester new hampshire mentioned what the hell is a mbta commuter rail/adequate public transit
also, our airport is weird. it IS large enough to be converted to a smaller int'l airport, but its domestic only as of writing.
ah so this is the video teased on Alan's stream.
If Quebec had its shit together, travel between Montréal and Burlington, would be seamless. The A35 still isn't finished after several decades. Nevermind adding Amtrak from Burlington to Montréal.
You deserve a million more subs. This kind of travel is more realistic for us than anyone elses out there.
Thanks so much!
Would love to see an Adirondack trip report the next time you get up to Montreal!
6:24 🎶 white river junction, what's your function 🎶
🎶takin' care of Miles' bodily function 🎶
It’d be great if Amtrak restored Boston-Montreal service, but there may be too much lifted track in NH between Lebanon and Manchester to make it work anymore. You’d need to turn a lot of rail trail miles back into active rail lines, and there would probably be community pushback.
I rode a Greyhound for the first time in a long time recently and paid extra for the reserved seat and I only realized halfway through the ride, that I was put in the wrong row (it was only one off but still) so yeah reserved seating is a scam. Love the Bahston accent!
This guy is definitely a vampire's minion.
Somebody was partially eaten on a Canadian Greyhound once.....
People like to bring this up, yes.
If you own a radio or a radio player, I like to amuse myself listening to Montreal's local French speaking radio stations. Just a suggestion if you are bored.
Miles! I was in Winnemucca NV yesterday (California Zephyr) during a fresh air break and another passenger and I were talking. I mentioned I thought this was the least used station, maybe. And he said he watches your channel too! You are legendary!
No way, that's incredible!!
This is going on my outdated knowledge, but when I lived in Toronto a lot of people would prefer to fly out of the Buffalo airport than from Pearson due to the huge difference in airfare costs if they were traveling in the States. You def could take a bus from Toronto to the Buffalo airport and Google tells me it still exists! I'd wager that's the same for the Manchester airport - still blows my mind that the cheap fare is worth it that much to depart from a regional airport in the States than from YYZ. But to each their own.
This is a great video. Says a man who has taken Greyhound from Montreal.
Thank you!
I rode Greyhound Canada (out of business today) to Montreal from Detroit about 2 weeks before covid shut down. Departed Detroit at 1:30AM and got to Montreal at 6:30 PM. I was able to catch an earlier bus connection in Ottawa. Overall, not a bad trip. Way better than US Greyhound. Greyhound in the US today is a national disgrace.
This was the first greyhound I took ur videos actually inspired me to do a trip like this and it’s awesome seeing the same thing from ur perspective
That's fantastic, thank you!
I wish this bus stopped in Woburn, but if i ever take this bus i might drive from Woburn to Manchester Airport to park there
Last time I took an overnight bus back to Boston, the guy behind me was talking on the phone about disposing of a body.
I've taken this route between Boston and WRJ both directions. The route itself isn't bad, but the schedule for it sucks. I'm not sure if they've changed it but it used to only run twice a day in both directions at really inconvenient times. And its constantly listed as "Sold Out" despite almost never being filled to capacity. 🤷♂
I did this route during the day round trip this summer and was surprised at how pleasant it was. I went in with zero expectation of enjoyment but honestly it was really nice.
Best ad segway of all time
RIP to the manta mask
Miles often talks about being made to feel like a pariah as a foot passenger on a ferry. I took this very same bus to Boston this summer, my first time crossing into the states on a bus, and I don't think I've ever felt like more of a pariah at the border. In a car they ask you a couple of questions and you're on your way in most cases, but on the bus you have to get off and drag all your luggage with you into a crowded holding pen and then they eventually grill the heck out of you - and I saw multiple people have all their luggage emptied out onto a table. As with most things in North America, if you find yourself outside of a car society has determined that you've done something wrong and deserve everything that happens to you. Do not recommend 😳
We got the Greyhound version, now we just have to wait for the Boston to Montreal train.
Vermont rooooads, take me homeeee...
The us border agent checking my passport was sure interested of all the places stamped in my passport. He was asking me if I met any interesting people in Egypt, maybe seeing if I had some al qaeda ties or something
Fun video. Brought back memories of my mom and I traveling from Vancouver to Alberta every summer on the Greyhound.
25 minutes late on an international Greyhound trip is pretty good. And practically every intercity bus company is overzealous with the AC. During the summer, the AC on Megabus (RIP) was so high that it felt like I was in Antarctica.
What happened to Megabus?
@@Neville60001 They went bankrupt
3:14 CANADIAN DOLLARS!!!
Best bit
@@PatriotMann that & POOR BID are my favs
@@PiplupJames don't sleep on "DINER!"
@@PatriotMann BEACON OF LIFE, BEACON OF HOPE
I recently took a greyhound from Boston to New York wish I had this experience ~2-3 hours late departing Boston really wish I paid extra for the amtrak
Just had the thought "When is Miles gonna upload again" and there he is...
I upload every Wednesday, but last week's video flew under the radar!
@@MilesinTransit I havent been subschribed for that long so good to know!
Thanks so much for subscribing!
Ooo a day job!
OMG I remember that commerical. We used to take the bus to NC every year and we never took Greyhound always Trailways then Greyhound bought Trailways and suddenly our next trip was an "adventure". Fun fact, if the drivers are poorly trained enough your mom can talk them into dropping you off directly at grandma's house.
Some will do it just to be nice.
@@CatsPajamas23 True, but while my mother is still here I'm not adding details.
I once boarded a Greyhound bus where there was exactly one available seat. It was next to a man of size like myself, so I rode from Louisville to Columbus with one butt cheek hanging out in the aisle
3:48 The Five Roses sign is one of the reasons the new pro women's soccer team is taking the name Montreal Roses.
taking On my way! to a whole new level
Did the bus stop in my childhood hometown of St Albans?
It did!
Why did you want a particular seat though? Are some seats on Greyhound better than others?
No, the seats are all the same, but you benefit from being closer to the front on this trip because it gets you through immigration faster.
5:30 "Do you know Jordan Peterson?"
Now I can't get Kermit the Frog out of my head:
"Go clean up your room, Mister Miles! Don't take that commie cattle bus, mister! The Serpent DNA is afraid of the Greyhound!"
This is the transportation the USA should be improving.
Ii did it the other way at 16 on a whim to see my friend. Ended up staying for 4 months
I went greyhound round trip boston-montreal 35 years ago and it was miserable. Can't imagine doing it at 60. A year later I went round trip to Orlando! like $59 each way if i remember.
When was this filmed? Cause there is no greyhound in canada anymore I thought
Greyhound US still runs to Canada (Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver)
GO GREYHOUND!!
@00:24 is this an homage to geography now?
Uhh not intentionally, I'm not sure what you're referring to!
@MilesinTransit so it's another UA-cam channel, they have gone all 193 u.n. recognized countries in alphabetical order and have just finished their last Zimbabwe in their vids in the transition screens they have little explosions like that.
@@subparnaturedocumentary Ah, got it! I know of them but I haven't watched them too much!
@@MilesinTransit the timing was like impeccable since they had just released the Zimbabwe vid
They really should get the Boston to Montreal train going, or even bring back that old VIA service that ran across Maine, but actually make a stop (of course that would mean 2 border station stops though.)
The border crossing on the U.S. end has to be made better than what it is now for such a train from both cities to be feasible (the Toronto-Chicago train ended because of this long wait at the border.)
You really need to do NYC to LA. That's the widowmaker.
They did that with Nathan in "The Longest Bus Ride in America" posted in Jan 2020. Well...more like they tried....watch that one to find out.
Yeah, I've done it already!
it seems to be a recurring thing for miles to visit montreal when i leave it
Being from central MA and going to school in Montréal, I've done this bus ride dozens of time. You really captured the essence of my experience doing this trip over the years. In particular, the crossing from Canada into the US is always infuriating, just based on hearing the level of questioning that everyone is subject to, US citizens and non citizens alike. But overall, I agree, because of the border crossing and the high price, I think you tend to get a lot less of the trademark greyhound misery and crazyness.
I do have to mention though, that since the FlixBus merger, they added a nonstop trip which is a godsend. You waste so much time stopping on this trip for stops that basically no one uses (Montpelier, Burlington/Manchester airports, Hannover, Concord, I'm looking at you).
I think they just added the nonstop option this summer and it still detours to stop at Manchester Airport and Montpellier, which I really don't understand... I've ridden this trip for several times and never noticed a group larger than 5 in these two stops
Wow - nice job Miles-enjoyed our conversations in the train observation car - Hoped you enjoyed Joni Mitchell, best to you - Sharon
Sharon, it was great to meet you and your family on the train! I hope your rail pass adventure is going well!
can someone please explain to me what the "poor bid" thing is? it's in a lot of MiT's videos, but I think I missed the origin of this lore. Thank you!
It's the Amtrak upgrade system that lets you put in a bid for a higher class of service; if you do the lowest amount it calls it a "poor bid". But I made it the sponsor code because I thought it'd be funny.
@@MilesinTransit thank you!
Try Jacksonville, Florida to DC on an overnight Greyhound (16 hours😅💀)
I've crossed the country on Greyhound twice!
New miles in transit greyhound video? Posted literally RIGHT NOW? 🏃🏽♀️💨
You should do the 9am greyhound bus from new york to dc but unlike any other routes this one makes 8 stops
I did that trip back when it only went as far as Wilmington! ua-cam.com/video/hB-MjkloQBQ/v-deo.htmlsi=HuNZ_DCMXByHA-Wt
@@MilesinTransit oh ok
Dear Miles, I love these videos but I really would like to be able to read your Patreon credits. The font you chose is......uh.....hard to read. Could you perhaps paste a text comment in each video of the Patrons you include in the credits? Or maybe is there a website you could put a text file on?
It's a different font each week! So next week it'll likely be more readable.
6:06 What is this sounder from? I know I've heard it somewhere. Edjumacational programming on PBS, maybe?
I think it's from Reading Rainbow
To be honest, I stole it from another UA-camr long ago, so I've always wondered where it originally came from!
@MilesinTransit Haha nice. I think @mrtraveler01 may be right.
@MilesinTransit Haha nice. I think @Mrtraveler01 is right.
Total trip time on bus
I have done the exact trip back in 2008. I visited Providence RI through Boston. Great trip both ways.
"I'd like greyhound to enforce assigned seats" yea buddy have fun with that i'll take them not enforcing it, cause well, ain't no 20D on a greyhound bus, and i'm not riding in the bathroom back to NYC
I don't entirely understand what you're saying here
@@MilesinTransit greyhound overbooks and creates fake seats when they do so. so theres not 20 rows in most busses, but they might print 20D on your ticket instead of a real seat
Basically i'm happy they don't enforce seats otherwise i'd be stuck in Albany, NY overnight. One or two people didn't make the bus (arriving too late after doors closed) and all seats were full. and I ain't having it be me left in albany because I have a fake seat printed on my ticket. It's gunna be the folks arriving 2 minutes before the bus leaves and getting screwed.
@@af8312 Oh, I see. In fairness this is more an issue with how Greyhound handles overbooking than it is with the idea of enforcing assigned seats!
@@MilesinTransit well yes, but will greyhound ever *not* do this?