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The Green Tortoise is a self-described adventure travel company based in San Francisco, California that hosts tours mostly within the United States. It operates a bus line and two hostels (in Seattle and San Francisco).

The Green Tortoise buses are customized so that all of the passengers are able to sleep on bunk beds while the bus is moving. Most meals are cooked communally and are often vegetarian.[1] The social environment is more communal than other carriers, such as Greyhound or Amtrak. Parts of some trips are reportedly clothing-optional. [2] Trips are operated to a number of destinations in the USA, Mexico, and Costa Rica and one coast-to-coast trip is offered as well. The travel destinations are often outdoors in nature. Special trips are also arranged to popular festivals every year, including the Oregon Country Fair and Burning Man, where they also operate a shuttle bus from the event into nearby Gerlach and Empire, NV.

[edit] Hostels

[edit] San Francisco

The San Francisco hostel shares its space with the bus line headquarters.

[edit] Seattle

The Seattle, Washington hostel is one of only two hostels within the city of Seattle (the other is associated with Hostelling International). It is located on 2nd Avenue between Pike and Pine, one block from the famous Pike Place Market. The hostel has roughly 150 beds and operates 365 days a year. Visitors include both foreigners and Americans. Individuals involved in the Alaskan fishing industry frequently stay before or after expeditions. Free dinners and beer are common for guests on a few nights a week. The hostel is known for its Wednesday night open microphone and entertainment showcase.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ↑  b  c  Official Green Tortoise website
  2. ↑  "Field Research for Boneheads: From Naïveté to Insight on the Green Tortoise" - Sociological commentary in another Journal by another author

[edit] External links

  • [4] "Slow, but steady: with the Green Tortoise Bus line, getting there is half the fun - adventure tours bus line" An article posted on E: The Environmental Magazine, May-June, 1998 by Steve Wilson
  • [5] Wanna Go for a Ride? by Jordan Marshall July 31-Aug. 6, 1997 / Vol. 6, Ed. 30 an article in the Anchorage press.

[edit] Further reading

  1. It was, like, real; Green Tortoise tours delivers intimate views -- of your fellow travelers. (Travel) Kelly Wilkinson. The Washington Post, June 21, 1998 pE01
  2. Slow, but steady: with the Green Tortoise Bus line, getting there is half the fun. (adventure tours bus line) Steve Wilson. E, May-June 1998 v9 n3 p46(2)
  3. Tortoise on a desert run: relive the days when getting there was half the fun. (Green Tortoise bus tours) T. Kelly Rossiter. Vegetarian Times, Sept 1995 n217 p92(3)
  4. A 1990's road trip worthy of Kerouac. (Green Tortoise bus tours) Lynda Edwards. The New York Times, Nov 14, 1993 v143 s9 pV8(L) col 1 (43 col in)
  5. A day camp on the road. (Green Tortoise offers travel and living in a bus) Eric Hubler. The New York Times, March 8, 1992 v141 s5 pXX41(N) pXX41(L) col 1 (27 col in)
  6. Trip on the Tortoise can be hair-raising if you aren't hip; rolling remnant of the 1960s, a bus unlike Greyhound, still plies the West Coast. (Green Tortoise a gypsy bus line) Bill Richards. The Wall Street Journal Western Edition, Jan 14, 1991 pA1(W) pA1(E) col 4 (29 col in)
  7. Touring with Green Tortoise; this California-based company offers the ultimate in adventure travel by motorcoach. (Green Tortoise Tours) (Focus: Group Travel) Susan O'Gorman. Travel Weekly, March 31, 1987 v46 p54(3)
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