The Green Tortoise is a bus tour company founded by Gardner Kent in 1974 '' and based in San Francisco, California that hosts tours in North America, mostly within the United States. It operates a bus line and two hostels (in Seattle and San Francisco). They cater particularly to backpackers: generally young adults, and many foreigners, particularly Europeans.
Famous quotes containing the words green and/or tortoise:
“There was an old man lived out in the wood,
His trade was a-cutting of Broom, green Broom;
He had but one son without thrift, without good,
Who lay in his bed till ‘twas noon, bright noon.”
—Unknown. Broom, Green Broom (l. 1–4)
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—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)