Short and sweet day, in the essence of that we got talking to some Australian’s travellers before leaving the hostel.
Strange how you get talking to people just as you are leaving, maybe it’s down to familiarity and not just confidence.

A twenty block walk arrived us at the bus depo. Not a good first impression for GreyHound.
Running 20 minutes late, no on-board restroom, topped off with a passenger vs driver spat, which resulted in the passenger being forced to get a later coach.

But, the mix of passengers aren’t anything as the horror stories suggested. Or at least, not on this journey !

As we booked late, we decided to stay outside of Philadelphia, but to try and avoid the outskirts, which were said to be rougher than usual. Mount Laurel, it wasn’t stated that this was on a Highway – though, this is our first experience outside of New York, so I’ll try not to be too negative!

Currently staying at a Howard Johnson on Highway 73. A short walk down and across from the GreyHound depo, though we walked a mile and a half the wrong direction first, before returning to the Greyhound to then get a taxi.

Brian, our taxi driver for the five minute journey to the hotel / motel, was definitely a character. More a racist and extreme-fascist than a character. After asking whether we were came from and what our purpose of our trip was, the conversation then turned to why America was better than the UK – obviously the reason was for the “right of to bear arms”.

Then we were asked whether we wanted to make lots of money, and whether we were communists…
Followed by a couple of slaggy remarks to Obama, against his policy regarding the health service and how they will vote him out just like we did with Tony Blairrrrrrrr.
What we thought of Cameron,… I decided that I shouldn’t admit that I voted for him.
A question arose of, ‘What were the Muslims like in our end?’ … wow.

I know that Mount Laurel is slightly south of New York, but I didn’t realise we were in the deep South.

The Knight’s Inn isn’t actually that bad and as it was outside of Philadelphia it was pretty cheap too! The massive downside is that is it on a six-land highway of which has patches of no sidewalks… so we were literally just walking with the traffic.

Mexican – ‘On the Border’ ! Amazing food and not that badly priced. Good old Shaggy!

New Jersey – isn’t anything like Jersey shore so far!