Truly a once in a life time experience. We will never travel with Greyhound again.

The first part of the trip was mediocre at best. We met some very interesting people on those buses, but for the most part everyone was quite.

That was about all the good for the trip.

The buses kept getting nastier as we transferred. The seats were uncomfortable too. I think they were made the opposite of human anatomy.

The terminals were mortifyingly filthy. I have been in my fair share of dirty places and bad bathrooms, but these were new levels of suffering.

The terminals themselves were unclean, and the benches were not sturdy at all. It was so loose, I thought it was a rocking bench at first.

The terminal bathroom was out of toilet paper, had stinky soap, and only one working sink out of four. One of the broken sinks was full of a delectible grey goo mold substance. The bathrooms smelled like pee and crack. The smell was so bad it made my eyes water.

Well, we made it to our destination on time, so the first part of the ride really wasn't that bad, except for the possible diseases we may have caught from the grey goo terminal.

The next week, we began traveling back home. This was the worst part of the trip.

We caught the first bus, traveled to our transfer location. The bus arrived a few minutes late, but we made it well before the time to get on our next bus. We returned to Grey Goo Terminal and 1:35 AM comes about, we and many other people got a notification that the bus has been delayed. Not by a few minutes. Not an hour. But FOUR hours! We waited all morning until 5:35 AM came about, and guess what. They delay it by four hours again!

By this time, we already got a car ready to rent, but we had to pick it up in the next city. Because of the unruly delays, we were not going to make our transfer at the next major city and none of us wanted to sort that out.

So we waited. And waited. And waited. We tried calling the customer service three times. First, they just picked up and said nothing. Second time, the guy picked up, acted like he was going to help us, then hung up on us! The third time we got someone who told us that it was delayed. No way! Like we didn't notice it was delayed after we just waited four hours. She said we would automatically be put on the next bus.

So we found a desk with a lady at it in the terminal. This lady is amazing at her job! She was completely unhelpful! She was DEDICATED to being unhelpful. She even had the "Oh no you didn't" kinda smirk with every customer she didn't help.

When we approached the lady, we asked about the bus being late.

She said, "I don't know, let's get you a new one."

So we asked how to do that.

She was like "We can do that right now."

She then helped us get a new bus that got cancelled.

We asked for a refund and she told us to ask customer service. We left her because obviously her job was not customer service, it was being unhelpful.

We continued to wait to hop on the next bus. We tried asking a bus driver that walked by us, and he completely ignored us.

There were lots of sketchy people around us. There were people with all kinds of drugs: people smoking things in the building. We watched two people trade new cigarettes with each other. There was one guy who's snore sounded like he was channeling a demon with bellows that were reminiscent of Leviathan's mouth; when it opened you could hear all the screams of the Damned.

Finally, we got an Uber to the car pickup. That was one of the best decisions we ever made. The Uber guy was really nice.

In short, this experience is a once in a lifetime trip; that is, once you do it once you'll never want to do it again. I would rather walk than use Greyhound. If you do happen to use their service and your bus gets delayed for a few hours, don't waste your time. Find an Uber or car rental and leave them far, far behind.

After this trip, I have a new understanding of what people on the Oregon Trail had to go through. I don't think I will ever complain about an airplane again.

Those of you who are taking a Greyhound bus, I wish you the best of luck and send you my condolences.