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08/22/2004 Archived Entry: "River Lady and Atlantic City, NJ"

On Thursday I drove for a company tour first to the "River Lady," a paddlewheeler on Tom's River, NJ, where the group did a two-hour dinner cruise. I couldn't park near the dock except to drop off and pick up, so couldn't go along on the cruise, but they reported the food was great. Parking was in a small public lot (free) just across the inlet from the dock. Following the cruise we continued on about an hour south to Atlantic City for a drop off at the Trump Plaza. I parked at the AC Transportation Center, as usual. The NJ DOT was there doing bus inspections, but there were hundreds of buses there on Thursday and I wasn't picked -- just as well, as I had one of our brand new coaches there so they wouldn't have found anything anyway, I'm sure. I did notice, however, that the older buses likely to have problems didn't seem to be getting checked -- they were picking mostly nicer, newer buses -- made me wonder if they weren't really looking for buses that might involve too much paperwork. Maybe, maybe not -- just happened to see them checking some of the nicer coaches.