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A Rural Public Transit Odyssey
Across New York's North Country by Rural Transit Bus
Our driver fell silent; the rain and wind whipped the bus all over the road, and though the awful driving conditions made me rather nervous, I felt myself slipping into a kind of “liminal state” one only ever finds on empty buses speeding through the pouring, blustering, flash-flooding depths of grey and aimless northern infinity. Then, the bus’s arrival in Potsdam shocked me awake — and we walked through the soaking, fog-wrapped streets of that sandstone city, shambling about with our raincoat hoods hanging like monastic garments, drifting toward the light of the Stewart’s gas station like lost moths pulled to neon by instinctual magnetism. Like a scene from a harebrained sequel to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, our driver turned a drive that normally takes just thirty minutes into a high-flying, county-wide odyssey of unprecedented proportions; an hour-and-forty-five-minute fever dream involving practically every road, paved and unpaved, of southern Lewis County.
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