Naomi and Maggie win small.

Last weekend, Maggie Muldoon and Naomi Solomon won our Atlantic City guest-blogger contest and went on a freebie-filled overnight trip to Jersey’s most debauched city. Here’s what happened:

Friday afternoon, 2 p.m.: When we arrived at Port Authority, Greyhound, the trip’s sponsor, welcomed us onto their fancy new bus, complete with plush leather seats, extra leg room, wi-fi and power outlets, along with a slew of bloggers from Off Manhattan, Hipster Travel, Unapologetically Mundane, Scouting New York, Short & Sweet NYC and others.

We sat down directly behind the CEO and COO of Greyhound, whom we got to interview. Driving the bus was a man named Leon, the most decorated driver in Greyhound’s history. If we could compare the group of us onboard to a family road-trip then the two of us were definitely the proverbial dogs with our heads out the window, excitable and giddy amongst a very cool, collected group of adults, tweeting amongst each other and relaxing while we, the non-pro bloggers who are not used to getting cool free swag, bounced around, Naomi taking copious notes about EVERYTHING the whole way down. (more…)