My wife took a Greyhound from central Minnesota to Pensacola FLA a few years back ( roundtrip)
First off, she had tickets on an Express bus that would leave at 10 at night ( eastbound)
The bus stop was at a McDonalds and we saw only west bound busses.
At about 11, we asked the McDonalds workers if they knew "what was up" and they didn't.
The west bound bus pulled in so I asked him. He stated there would be no eastbound bus til the next night cuz hers was broke down in North Dakota
He signed something and told us she should get on a bus on a different hwy heading east at 8 the next morning.
He stated her ticket would get sraightened out in Minneapolis. ( it wasn't)
She met some nice people on the bus, but some were
nuts !
One young man sat behind the driver and harrassed him til the driver ordered him to get off and pointed to the side of his head giving the "crazy sign"
Another older man talked non stop about UFO's. He said he was released from an area mental hospital and was going to Michigan to visit his sister.
On the return trip, a very young woman with a 2 month old baby, had left her boyfriend in Florida and going home to her folks in Idaho.( all the way on a bus )
My wife and a few other women took turns helping her with the baby.
At Chicago, the young woman said a "nice man" had suggested her,him, and the baby get a motel room for a couple of nights to "unwind" ( the other women explained that wasn't a good idea) She asked--"why not" ?
To sum it up, yes, my wife met many "characters" but got so sick of McDonalds food as that seemed to be the only short stops they made.
A year later she took the same trip on Amtrak.
The year after that,she drove alone to Pensacola and back.
I would still like to take a bus trip and meet some of those--"characters"