Info on bus from Rome to Fara San Martino, Italy?

Question

traveling in May, 2008. Does anyone know the easiest way to get from Rome to Fara San Martino, Italy without driving.

Answer 1

You can do this on ARPA, the Abruzzo bus line, but it involves a number of stops....

Take the ARPA bus from Roma Stazione Tiburtina to Pescara.  Then a bus from Pescara to Guardiagrele, then a final bus to Fara S. Martino.

You can check the schedules at www.arpaonline.it (only in Italian).  Click on "Orari delle corse", then "Consulta Orari".  Get the schedule for Roma-Staz. Tiburtina to Pescara-p.le Repubblica, then Pescara-p.le Repubblica to Fara S. Martino.  For some reason, the online scheduler is not smart enough to plan the entire trip in one search.

I've taken the ARPA bus from Roma to Pescara before and it was very clean, fast (only 2.5 hours vs 4 hours for the train), and inexpensive (€15 each way).