This leads to plenty of rocking-and-rolling during the 10-hour passage, with many passengers confined to their bunks.
The boys' and girls' bunks, completed in March, recently slept 12 over spring break.
"We had tuna in the galley and tuna in the bunks, " he says.
Lulled by the rocking, we fell asleep in our bunks, though not before wedging a backpack against the door.
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We stopped at an old photo -- men and boys lying in their wooden bunks, barely more than skeletons.
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Socially-shunned wife Ruth bunks with relatives in Florida and drives a 14-year-old clunker, according to the New York Post.
One idea seat manufacturers have been showing airlines: horizontal flat beds that stack vertically, perhaps like bunks on a train.
The Sheriff and one of his men hurried down the narrow passage between the bunks and out the other side.
There were two new passengers on the bunks below who had got on in the middle of the night, somewhere west of Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
Rather, it was a warning to those engaged in hanky-panky to end their trysts and jump back into their own bunks.
The final step is just metaphorically lying on our bunks divergently turning everything over and over in our minds until something pops.
Up to 24 inmates are crowded into a single cell, living behind metal bars on steel bunks, sharing a single shower and two toilets.
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The state corrections system now has more than 11, 000 empty bunks.
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Prisoners in striped outfits lay on bunks, watching us approach.
Research by the American-Statesman shows that nearly two dozen county and private lockups are now vacant or almost so, as are thousands of bunks in state adult and juvenile prisons.
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Far from being bland and medicinal, the interior of the bus features a flat-screen TV, a lounge area and four private bunks to get a few more minutes of shut-eye.
"We have a general problem of overcrowding but we have learned to live with it, " said Gerber, adding that extra bunks have been added to make sure all remand prisoners have a bed.
Then, as soon as plastic trays and silver foil have been spirited off to kitchen quarters unknown, our attendant transforms our chairs into two neat - if narrow - bunks, fitted with crisp white sheets and jaunty tartan blankets.
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