Riding in Style

We've been contemplating a jaunt to the old NYC all summer (mainly to see this geekalicious exhibit and have some chocolate), and back before the humidity fried all neural pathways we looked into how, exactly, we would get there. We're not fried too much to remember we’re on a tighter than usual budget, and when did a train ticket get that exorbitant? We resigned ourselves to bussing it, and were delighted, if a bit hesitant, to check out the challengers to the standard Chinatown Bus, which promised (reliable) A/C and Wi-Fi among other amenities, including hard-to-believe $1 fares. Luckily Sulina Gabale over at City Paper took the plunge for us, subjecting herself to four roundtrips to see if the newcomers lived up to her usual chariot, the 2000 New Century Travel Chinatown Bus. The take-away: the newbies deliver, and strange food odors are absent to boot. Excuse us, we're grabbing the laptop so's we can blog our way to the Met.