So does everyone else. It has a great view and seems a little roomier, like exit rows in planes. The bus is actually quite comfortable, except the seats are tiny and if you're taller than five-six, you have to sit with your knees to the side. Fortunately, I've never had to share my two-wide seats, so if I scrunch sideways, I'm close to comfortable. The bus is always clean, the temperature just right, and always punctual.
People sleep on buses.
I try to read my papers, which is a challenge because the seats in front of you are in your face. Somehow I manage and then offer them to a young fellow across the aisle. Older black ladies often strike me as quite capable and pleasant, able to carry the woes of Job and still smile. We stop in Joliet, then along I-80 to Ottawa and LaSalle. We would make it to my stop in Princeton sooner, but there is a scheduled 15-minute breakfast break at the McDonald's in LaSalle.