Would you take a greyhound bus to see your team?

A fun question to ask your local hustle bro, "Would you get on a greyhound bus to go see your team?"

I bet you 95% of them would say, NO you use your credit card points from your dads credit card.

Would you stay up all night in the Montreal Airport, to catch your greyhound back home in the morning? No? You ain't gonna make it, buddy.

Some of this is tongue and cheek. But the story starts off. April of 2024. We are a 1 car family. I'm not making my wife load 3 kids in the car at 4am to drive up to the Montreal Airport, deal with the border and what not so I can make a flight.

Its the night before my big adventure. I go to sleep, I'm all packed ready to go. Set my alarm for 4am. I have about a 2mile walk to the bus station (a parking lot in a gas station).

A ping on my phone at 2am, Bus cancelled. Shoot, basically my trip up to Montreal ruined. I'm able to schedule an earlier bus, I get my stuff start walking (its like 32 degrees and lightly raining) to the bus stop. 4:30am bus. EARLY. Never shows up. 6:30am bus shows up. Not my bus, but I beg and plead with the bus driver show him the ticket and the cancelled bus emails. He lets me on. Sweet we are on the bus!

Now before this whole adventure started, I needed a ride from the bus station in Montreal to the Airport. Sure, easy! I didn't look up public transit I went straight to Twitter.

My biggest boldest move was I Tweeted at Harley Finkelstein (yes, President of Shopify)and asked him if he would give me a ride. Its always a No if you don't ask. The timing was bad, and he couldn't do it.

But luckily, My wonderful friend from Twitter Marcos came to the rescue. Make friends people!!! It was great to finally meet him in person, and get a well needed ride to the airport. Made the flight everything as smooth.

The team retreat was amazing. I was tired after basically 24 hours of travel but being with the team made it worth it.

On the way back from the team retreat my flight got in at 10:30pm. My bus back home was at like 6am. I decided to stay in the airport an write and people watch. As somebody who doesn't travel a lot and rarely leaves the house these days. A fun experiment to sit and deal with some discomfort.

Ya could I have spent a bunch of money to make sure this trip was a bit comfortable. Dealt with a rental car, or hotel for 4 hours (not worth it).

Ask yourself the question, would you take a greyhound bus for your team? You should try it sometime.