Greyhound, or an ethnography of lost souls

Abstract The Greyhound bus synthesizes mobility and stuckedness. In the play of travel and breakdown, I find a way to understand how the mobility of capital meets the stuckedness of people. In the process of being gutted by venture capitalists, the Greyhound company is an increasingly fragile place for travelers with few options to make their way through the United States. At the same time, the instability of this travel option makes it a voyeuristic portal into wandering souls. I draw from my experiences riding the Greyhound to understand how a soul wanders and waits, searching for home and finding itself free and alone.