The Bus from Zone 5

From TheLongestTrip.com
Sometimes, the shortest trips can reveal the most.


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This wasn’t meant to be a ‘trip’ of any real kind. I was simply dropping my car off for repairs and needed to get to work. My nephew Scott and his buddy Damien work on cars. Rebuilding, repairing customizing and racing Hondas to be more specific.

So I felt completely confident about leaving my 1996 Civic’s repair needs–oil, plugs and (gasp) front/rear axle replacement–in their hands.

It’s been a while since I’ve taken a bus to NYC. A couple of months at least. It’s been a whole lot longer since I’ve taken the bus from way up in this neck of Bergen County, NJ.

Twenty five years in fact.

NJ Transit’s less-than-logical zoning practices places this area in Zone 5. All that means to me is it will cost $5.25 to get to NYC and will probably take about an hour. I planted myself in the first seat so I’d have a good view. Of what, I wasn’t sure.

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