Sideshadowing Teacher Response

Abstract

Like anything else, traveling by bus has advantages and drawbacks. First the advantages. [He lists two, then continues.] But undoubtably the gem of my 300 hours of Greyhound experience was a beefy spoonful of an entirely different reality than I had been accustomed to and more importantly a reshuffling of ideas that I have about my growth process. [He describes then how he'd expected to encounter in bus stations an urban reality of pimps, hustlers, and societal dregs unknown to him as a rural Vermonter.] At this time this conception of a bus station struck me as ... something taken from a Ginsberg poem... an infallible recipe for a radical transformation of my sheltered racial and economic ideologies. In retrospect, I see my first four cross country trips as a desperate attempt to escape, not to grow. . ... I was anxious whenever I wasn't high, terrified of the people that surrounded me, but was unable to act any differently. I spent the majority of my cross-country trips alone, depressed and afraid. I had begun to sense that the road life I was leading would have been a failure in Kerouac's eyes. Another major pitfall of bus travel ...

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