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Originally Posted by Andrew Schuetze
Howdy all and NEMO types,
I'd appreciate some suggestions in regards to curfew and such for 18 hour bus rides. This year's trip to Atlanta will be via bus and will be 18 hours in transit. My thoughts are to treat it like a hotel situation and have a 'curfew' at XX:xx PM with seat checks. At curfew each set of seats will be same sex. I'm even thinking that I need to section off the bus a bit and have a female and male section???
What kinds of meals do you typically serve en route? We are leaving @ 7:00 PM so I am asking students to have eaten dinner before boarding and then having snacks for them in the evening. My plan is to then have breakfast items for the AM, Sam's club stuff. We would then stop at a pizza buffet somewhere for lunch and then do dinner in Atlanta.
Besides having a collection of G and PG movies, do you provide any other type of entertainment/amusement? Are there standard bus games that teams play?
Any comments and suggestions are more than appreciated,
Thanks,
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I have yet to have to supervise a bus trip (probably a good thing), but I recently tagged along with one on the way to the Florida Regional (about ten hours on the road, daytime one way and overnight the other).
Unless you have a policy that says otherwise, keeping each pair of seats to one gender during sleeping hours should be plenty. Meals are really dependent on your schedule--if you're leaving right around a meal time, it shouldn't be too hard to tell the kids to come either hungry or full. (Of course, full might mean an early pit stop somewhere. I'm sure you're aware of the unwritten rule that bus bathrooms are for absolute emergencies only.)
Other than movies (might wanna get a copy of the school policy to have handy in case the kids are demanding Terrifying Slashers From Heck VI), everyone pretty much keeps themselves entertained. It's not too hard now--if you pack an iPod and a Game Boy, you're pretty much set for whatever until your juice runs out. (Might want to encourage team members to go halfsies on a big pack of batteries nonetheless.)
If nothing else, there's always 100 Bottles of
Beer Non-Alcoholic Beverage on the Wall.
Happy driving!