{"id":1242,"date":"2018-03-21T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2018-03-20T14:38:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T21:38:22","slug":"overnight-bus-beds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/21\/overnight-bus-beds\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight bus with beds!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air travel is fast, but frustrating (I dislike the security checks + lack of leg room) and is particularly <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Environmental_impact_of_aviation\">bad for the environment<\/a>\u00a0when traveling short distances. Because of this, I like to take alternative modes of transportation when possible. The train is nice \ud83d\ude42 but can be slow and doesn&#8217;t offer a lot of different departure times; traditional long-distance buses (Megabus, Greyhound, BoltBus) can be just as cramped as planes.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is an alternative! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ridecabin.com\/\">Cabin<\/a> (previously SleepBus) is a bus service between LA and San Francisco that has beds on board, much like the Knight Bus in Harry Potter. The trip is about 7 hours overnight, just about the perfect length for this kind of venture. One-way tickets are $85-$120, so 4-5 times more expensive than other buses and 2 times more expensive than Amtrak for the same trip. Flight costs vary a lot (I just saw $29-$200), but are comparable on average or at the last minute.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m eager to try out this service! Until Amtrak has an overnight trip between the Bay Area and LA, this sounds like a great option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air travel is fast, but frustrating (I dislike the security checks + lack of leg room) and is particularly bad for the environment\u00a0when traveling short distances. Because of this, I like to take alternative modes of transportation when possible. The train is nice \ud83d\ude42 but can be slow and doesn&#8217;t offer a lot of different &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/21\/overnight-bus-beds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Overnight bus with beds!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1256,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions\/1256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}