In a message to Al Thompson  Lee Waun wrote:
LW>  I am taking the bus to C'ville VA this summer and I want to take the
LW>  acoustic with me. Will my regular hardshell case be up to the trip.
LW>  I'll be on the bus 3 days there and I am just wondering if the guitar
LW>  will survive a journey that long. I am buying a Norman B20 with
LW>  cherrywood backs and sides. So the price of it isn't that high. Any
LW>  suggestions.
Well, bus travel isn't USUALLY as hard on guitars as plane travel.  You can 
usually "supervise" the loading of your guitar, and it won't be loaded by the 
automated luggage-mangler, and more often than not, doesn't get dropped 20 
feet onto the pavement.
ATA cases for acoustic guitars are ghastly expensive, and heavy.  If it's 
only a bus trip, I'd gamble.  
 
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