This will be my tenth year riding Chinatown buses back and forth between Boston and New York. In the beginning, I was living in Boston and dating a beautiful New York Poet and so was breaking my budget going back and forth on the Greyhound to make kissy faces. A pal said, "Why don't you just take one of those Chinatown buses? Just go down to Chinatown and start walking around and you'll find a cheap bus to Boston." I was skeptical. It took me a little longer to work up the courage to find the small bakery in Boston's Chinatown where a woman was selling tickets to New [...]