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Lovebus
by John Mernick Sr.
The Lovebus Podcast The Green Tortoise Adventure Travel Experience Experience The Green Tortoise Adventure Travel Hippie Bus Before It's Gone! Told from the perspective of a passenger, listeners are taken on the ride of a lifetime aboard the "Bus with No Seats" on a 10 day cross-country bus trip rife with romance skiny-diping and wild dance parties aboard the world-famous "Hippie Greyhound." Based on true stories recounted by a veteran Green Tortoise Adventure Bus Driver, woven into an epic adventure that captures the true to life experience of being on the Green Tortoise, a trip like no other! Truly, "The Mother of All Reality TV Shows."** Listeners are taken on a personal journey of self-discovery into The Heart of Everything That Is. America’s National Parks and scenic byways set the stage for a series of life-changing events that affect the lives of twenty-six international backpackers. Young Johny is moving to San Francisco after
Episodes
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Chapter 19: The Return of Crazy Horse
Chapter 19: The Return of Crazy Horse
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Chapter 18: Wounded Knee
Chapter 18: Wounded Knee
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Chapter 17: Mud for Dessert
Chapter 17: Mud for Dessert In a remote corner of Badlands National Park, there is a little swimming hole hidden behind a clump of trees across the street from the White River Visitor Center. The bus passed through a small gate, down a dirt road, and parked in a field beneath two massive oaks.…
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Chapter 16: Champagne for Breakfast
Chapter 16: Champagne for Breakfast A whiff of campfire smoke awakened me from my astral slumber high atop Sheep Mountain Table, in the Badlands of South Dakota. I lay awake for several minutes, alone on the communal mattresses encircling the smoldering bonfire. The morning air was cool and...
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Chapter 15: American Prayer
Chapter 15: American Prayer [Whistle of wind, faint drums and Indians chanting.] Nature called me awake in the darkness before dawn on Sheep Mountain Table in the Badlands of South Dakota. I wiggled my way out of my sleeping bag and rose to my feet. I stretched my spine and took a deep breath.…
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Chapter 14: Sheep Mountain Table
Chapter 14: Sheep Mountain Table The moment I arrived at Sheep Mountain Table I was overcome by a profound sense of awe. Dozens of passengers from both buses staggered with me to the edge of the cliff overlooking the entirety of Badlands National Park. The light-colored sandstone reflected the...
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Chapter 13: Cuny Cafe
Chapter 13: Cuny Cafe Part of the magic and intensity of the Green Tortoise adventure travel experience in the Badlands involves eating dinner prepared by a pair of gregarious Lakota Sioux women at a place called Cuny Cafe. The cafe building doubles as their home on land that bears their family...
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Chapter 12: Scenic, South Dakota; Population:12
Chapter 12: Scenic, South Dakota; Population:12 The passengers on the front platform were sitting with their heads close to the open windows trying to get some relief from the heat. Guitar Johnny strummed and sang softly, putting in the least amount of effort possible. After a while he started...
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Chapter 11: Badlands National Park
Chapter 11: Badlands National Park In the darkness before dawn, the Green Tortoise Adventure Bus crawled to a halt along the curb of a dark empty parking lot in Badlands National Park. With the last breath of the engine came a profound silence. I arose from the back platform where British Sue and…
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Chapter 10: Party Across the Great Plains
Chapter 10: Party Across the Great Plains When I woke up, we were in the parking lot of a liquor store somewhere in the middle of the Great Plains. Other than the grocery store across the street, there really wasn’t anything else around for miles. Driver Chris stood up, holding the safety bar by...
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Chapter 9: Breakfast on the Mississippi
Chapter 9: Breakfast on the Mississippi I woke up a few minutes after sunrise. Little Josh had gotten up nice and early, making sure that his mother paid heavily for her night out drinking. She held her head as if it were a drippy eggshell. “Wake up mom, we’re crossing the Mississippi River!”...
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Chapter 8: The Chicago Blues
Chapter 8: The Chicago Blues At some point on the two-hour drive into Chicago I had drank enough beer to necessitate the use of the pee funnel for the first time. After the laughter ebbed, I stood up in the stairwell and scowled at the Chicago skyline to the west. It all seemed grey to me, the…
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Chapter 7: Indiana Dunes
Chapter 7: Indiana Dunes While the rest of us used the bathrooms one last time, Driver Brian went to sleep in the driver’s cabin and Driver Chris changed into a pair of red lifeguard shorts and a stained grey t-shirt with the words, ‘I am Made of Meat’ half hidden behind his copious facial hair....
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Chapter 6: The Driver’s Apprentice
Chapter 6: The Driver’s Apprentice The engine was silent when I woke up, but I could feel the bus swaying slightly as passengers moved around below. I felt well-rested despite the bumpy roads and being kept awake by British Sue’s wind-blown hair touching my face. The dinette table had been...
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Chapter 5: The Moon Over Manhattan
Chapter 5: The Moon Over Manhattan When the Green Tortoise bus rolled down Broadway the citizens of New York took notice. As the antique bus maneuvered through traffic, horns beeped, and arms waved enthusiastically through open car windows. Cabbies leaned out waving and truckers blew air-horns....
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Chapter 4: Skinny-Dipping in Connecticut
Chapter 4: Skinny-Dipping in Connecticut About fifteen minutes after the rest stop, the bus pulled off the highway onto a two-lane country road lined with tall pine trees somewhere west of Hartford. Less than a mile later at a nondescript break in the tree-line we turned onto a primitive...
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Chapter 3: Buddy Check
Chapter 3: Buddy Check While driving west of Boston through the woodland hills of Massachusetts, I sat behind Driver Brian listening to him speak with the soccer player from Boston. “Where did you live when you were a kid?” she asked him earnestly. “In a cooperative,” he informed her. “Is that…
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Chapter 2: The Art of Adventure Travel
Chapter 2: The Art of Adventure Travel Inside the bus, Driver Chris had taken off his shirt and he was sitting at the dinette table reading from a business ledger. An incredibly attractive girl with flowing brown hair sat on the mattress close behind him massaging his shoulders. His red-bearded...
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Chapter 1: The Renaissance of Wonder
Chapter 1: The Renaissance of Wonder Clouds coated the Boston sky like cataracts in the eyes of an insane old dog. The wonderful blue that had once shined behind the clouds seemed lost forever on the hounded features of the city. As my father fifty-fived his Oldsmobile up Route 93 toward the…
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Welcome to the LOVEBUS!
Welcome to the Lovebus Podcast! What lays in store for you in this podcast is epic! For those of you who aren't in the know, there exists a real-life Hippie Adventure Bus called the Green Tortoise. The legendary "Hippie Greyhound," has a "Shuffle Your Feet Lose Your Seat Policy," with no reserved...
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Teaser: Welcome to the Lovebus - a celebration of the the Legendary Hippie Greyhound - The Green Tortoise Adventure Travel Bus
Welcome to the Lovebus Podcast! I'm your Host Johnny Lovebus. our intention for this podcast is to celebrate our love for Adventure Travel Aboard the Historic Green Tortoise Adventure Bus. Here at Lovebus Studios, For those of you who aren't in the know, there exists a real life Hippie Adventure...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Lovebus Podcast
The Green Tortoise Adventure Travel Experience
Experience The Green Tortoise Adventure Travel Hippie Bus Before It's Gone!
Told from the perspective of a passenger, listeners are taken on the ride of a lifetime aboard the "Bus with No Seats" on a 10 day cross-country bus trip rife with romance skiny-diping and wild dance parties aboard the world-famous "Hippie Greyhound."
Based on true stories recounted by a veteran Green Tortoise Adventure Bus Driver, woven into an epic adventure that captures the true to life experience of being on the Green Tortoise, a trip like no other! Truly, "The Mother of All Reality TV Shows."**
Listeners are taken on a personal journey of self-discovery into The Heart of Everything That Is. America’s National Parks and scenic byways set the stage for a series of life-changing events that affect the lives of twenty-six international backpackers. Young Johny is moving to San Francisco after
HOSTED BY
John Mernick Sr.
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