#minisota

It was an emotional time when we dropped off the car. Not because we were saying goodbye to the Jetta but because when I booked the car online I must of done something but we were supposed to drop it off in some nowhere in North Dakota, some 300 miles away.

As per usual, it all worked out in the end. Instead of a $500 relocation fee, it was only $325. Not the worst mistake I’ve ever made, but the cost of the whole thing was considerably more than what we had planned. Do you know what, I’d do it again in a heartbeat. I’d gladly pay double what we did for the Pacific Coast Highway alone and the freedom to come and go as we pleased. Anyone thinking of doing anything like this has to do it by car. A bus may be cheaper, but you don't get to see half as much.

As soon as our mobile home was taken away from us, everything went to pot. Our couch surfing hosts had seemingly fallen off the face of the planet and we had nowhere to stay or go. There was a over night bus to Chicago leaving in a few hours and my mind was made.

Not only did we ditch the Jetta in Minneapolis, I also cleared a sizeable chunk of dead weight from my bag. Anything that hadn’t been used in the last 3 months or hadn’t been bought for a specific purpose was trashed. Leaving me with a much more manageable load. Still a ridiculous amount of stuff, but manageable.

Once we got ourselves into the city centre, we found the Greyhound terminal and set up camp. We don't have the money to afford the Greyhound, but we are cheap enough to sit in their lobby, use their free wifi and book ourselves onto a Megabus.

After looking like complete scabs for long enough, we took our mass of luggage a few blocks over to the car park where the Megabus would pick us up. Luckily we did as we saw some commotion concerning a passengers luggage. It turns out that each passenger is allowed one piece under the bus and one as carry on. Me and Jim had 3 pieces each.

Jimmy's main bag was half empty so we managed to cram one of his bags into the other. All of my shit was overflowing as it was and there was no chance of cramming anything into anywhere. And the bus conductor was being a real dick, the sort of guy that has been given a shred of power and he was going to use every once of it on the unsuspecting public.