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A 2 hour drive in Miami will get you to…north Miami
And 50$ in tolls lol
upvote for Gulf of Mexico
I sadly see this all the time unironically. Met a German family who arrived in North Carolina with plans to go to Disney Land. Not World. Land
“Isn’t California just on the other side of the country?”
Yeah it is
How do people not check driving times in this modern age?
America is pretty unique in size. If you’re used to shorter trips even overestimating wouldn’t be half the drive through america. Especially Europeans as a long drive is anything over 20m when its measured in hours they’re considering booking accommodations for sleep and such. The perception of time is incredibly different.
European here, although our countries are smaller. 20 mins is quite obviously a short drive.
UK is pretty small but it still takes 7 Hours to get from Glasgow to london and I can’t imagine anyone booking overnight accommodation for that drive. That’s two major cities with 100% motorway/freeway driving, I haven’t even brought up Cornwall.
I drive 5h for family within England on a monthly basis.
Your comment is naive.
My family that still lives there stay overnight for trips like that. Me on the other hand: drove across Canada and would drive 4 hours, nap for 20 minutes, repeat…because hotels were expensive and my plan of campsite tenting overnight was just too much setup and take down after the first day.
Canada is as wide… And in a sense longer because everything is so sparse.
The way I try to communicate it is to ask them to imagine someone taking a vacation to the whole EU, because America is much closer in scale to that
Had a friend from SE Asia that wanted to visit me in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She found a flight to Canada alright. To VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA. She asked if I could come pick her up if I wasn’t too busy.
Lol.
Sure, I’ll be there in 3 days, you’ll probably want to get some food while you wait.
3? I had a few crewmates cross the country in about 5 and they said that was a gruelling task that they should have slowed down for.
If you go through the US, Google Maps tells me about 56 hours, or 18-19 hours/day if you’re doing it in 3. If you go through Canada only, add about 3 hours. I think Google Maps estimates are a bit generous on time esp. if you’re comfortable exceeding the speed limit a bit, so maybe you could do it in 50 hours.
It’s doable in 3, but it wouldn’t be fun at all. I’ve done 14+ hours driving in a day (so 4 days?), and it sucks, so yeah, 5 might be a bit too much as well.
A family member went ottawa-vancouver in 54 hours of driving - and this was using i-90 in America. The time estimates can be a bit off.
I’m guessing it doesn’t count time at the border crossing or breaks, and assumes continuous driving.
The driver will need a nap at the end. I think it can be 72 hours if one doesn’t sleep.
According to Google Maps, it’s about 56 hours. Can’t quite squeeze it into two days, but you could get close. If you’re able to sustain 50% over the speed limit, you could maybe do it in 48 hours, with fuel refills.
You will need a cannonball run setup. But it’s been done outrageously faster than you would think.
Conversely, I, as an American who had the opportunity to spend a few months in Germany, was surprised at how close all the countries were.
Great culture in all the places I went (Brussels and Prague were my two standout favorites!) Traveling was hella cheap. The food was fire everywhere I went. The architecture was INCREDIBLE. And the knowledge that you could go to the hospital for less than $100 was nuts. Don’t even get me started on how legitimately cool it is to sit in a 1000 year old pub.
I didn’t want to come back. I nearly cried when I got the return flight info.
It still shocks me to tell people “Yeah, I lived in Germany for a bit and some weekends we would fuck off to France.”
The borders of European countries are great because there’s all this security infrastructure that they’ve built but then they don’t use any of it. There’s always just a bunch of ballads and you have to drive around little security checkpoints but there’s never anyone around.
My personal favourite is Geneva which is kind of just an extended bit of Switzerland because the city was already there, but really by any logical sense it should be in France. So they deal with that by basically just ignoring it, and people just pop to and fro all the time.
There are often crossings where the infrastructure is a road-side sign. Interstate crossings at state borders are often more significant.
I loved Prague too. Had a local guide that took me to cool places, I drank a lot. 👍
In America, 100 years is a long time
In Europe, 100 miles is a long distanceWhen I was in college at Eastern New Mexico, which is about 45 minutes west of Amarillo Texas, a couple friends, both from New England, had the bright idea of driving down to the gulf over a 4 day weekend.
I cautioned them against the idea, trying to explain Texas was bigger than they could imagine. Three hours into the trip we got a motel room in some hole in the wall town and went back to school the next morning.
What? It takes 24 hours to drive from the Canadian border to Mexico border. Texas is about 770 miles at its widest, that’s a breezy 10-12 hour drive doing the speed limit or just over.
Yeah so nearly half their weekend driving…through Texas. One of the most boring places to drive through.
24 hours out of 96. I’ve done worse.
And it can’t be worse than Saskatchewan.
The only place I’ve driven for multiple hours that was worse than Texas was Nevada. Even rural Indiana is a huge upgrade and that place stinks from soy bean processing (I think?)
Michigan and California are incredible.
Looking at Saskatchewan…I dunno man, looks really pretty to me!
Compared to the other provinces, it’s just flat farm fields. When the rapeseed (canola) is blooming it can look pretty, but it’s just yellow flowers for HOURS, no variety.
Edit, oh and for six months it’s white with snow, and the highway is dead straight, it’s hard to stay awake for the six hours.
Sounds like huge swaths of the Midwest US. My friend got into a wreck for the same reason you described (thankfully no one was hurt)
Northern Nevada sucks, but southern Nevada near Vegas is fine since it has cool rock structures and whatnot, provided you avoid rush hour.
I hate most of California because traffic is so awful, but north of SF is pretty.
Coming from a place with no desert or “beaches”, the sand is a cool difference from the rest of the drive down from Canada.
Wait, you’re driving south through Nevada? Do yourself a favor and go east to I-15 or west to I-5, both are orders of magnitude better than going north/south through Nevada…
The only time I drive through Nevada is either from SLC to Lake Tahoe (northern Nevada) or SLC to Vegas/LA (southern tip of Nevada) because the alternative takes way longer.
I went on a cross Canada car drive in the early 2000s. We left from Sudbury Ontario to make it to the west coast in BC. We took our time, sight seeing and making many stops along the way. Ten days later we made it to Vancouver.
The best part was that on our sixth day, we ran into a friend in Medicine Hat, Alberta. He had left Kapuskasing, Ontario the day before and was expecting to make it to Vancouver in about 60 hours with non stop driving. His eyes were so blood shot and he was literally shaking from all the caffeine drinks, pills and coffee he had been taking. He had some strangers with him that he had picked up as hitch hikers and he said they were keeping him awake.
We worried about him the whole time but he called us two days later to say he made it. We caught up with him three days later.
I live in Arkansas and went on vacation to South Padre Island a few years ago. It’s a 16 hour drive one way.
I grew up near Seattle and now live near Salt Lake City. The drive is 14 hours one way and I’ve done that trip at least a dozen times.
Shout out the 1 hour 45 minute drive from JFK to just over the bridge into Jersey
Lmao cycling is faster according to Google
There’s a reason why New Yorkers are much fitter than the average American lol.
Coming into the city through the tunnel was wild. Huge contrast in the amount of traffic.
I walked around Jersey City for Pokemon Go fest, and it was a ghost town. It was so surreal lol. Right off the PATH train there’s no one.
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In OP’s image they “land” in NYC and drive to Miami. You would drive the route I posted to leave NYC.
“Would you like to try this alternate route that saves you negative 13 minutes and negative $5.44?”
Ah, a meme from a simpler time. Now the first thing I think of is how long the stay in Guantanamo Bay will be.
Out of curiosity, I put the route in Google Maps to see how long each leg would take. 20 hrs., 37 hrs., 5 hrs.
You really can’t experience everything if has to offer in just one day. I wish tourists could better understand.
If they make it all the way noon, I’d be surprised. Make a stop in Alligator Auschwitz.
My brother went to college in upstate NY in the 80’s and made friends with a girl who was born & raised in Manhattan. One weekend, in all seriousness, she suggested taking the subway to the Grand Canyon.
80’s
'80s
in the 80’s what?
Their transportation:
This is actually pretty similar to what some coworkers visiting from EU wanted to do.
They were here on a two week work trip and I asked them what they were doing for their weekend. It was something like “We rented a car and are going to go to New Orleans, then to Nashville, up to New York City, over to the Grand canyon, and maybe San Francisco if we have time before we head back to the office”
I had to explain that the state we were in was larger than their country and they couldn’t cover that much ground in two days even if they only drove and didn’t stop once.
We had a good laugh and then just did a hike on Saturday :)
Edit : “in Europe 100km is a long distance and in the US 100 years is a long time”. Forget where I heard that but it seems accurate
I once saw a post from an American guy visiting family in Germany. They borrowed him a car so he could visit other family about 400KM away.
The family that owned the car spend an entire day getting it checked out by a mechanic, making sure all the fluids where fine, getting the tire pressure just right, etc.
He thought it was pretty funny because he drove double that distance every week just to go to work.
Or just save being put in an ICE facility and go visit Canada and not be put in an ICE facility.
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I like everything about this except the “being in the USA” part.
So, back in 2009, I lived in a tour bus touring with big acts like Linkin Park, Pearl Jam and guys like that. Well, we did a little stint with Madonna and we went from LA, straight to NYC, down to Miami and straight back to LA in I think about a week. It was one of the most brutal on road experiences I’ve ever had to endure for 4 shows. I was on a really sweet fully decked out tour bus too, so it was the best case scenario. It gave me a new appreciation for how motherfucking vast my country is. However, I would NOT recommend the experience.
I did get to meet Spike Lee and Chris Cornell in Miami tho and even had birthday cake with Justin Timberlake while in NYC. It was his birthday and he was doing a music thing inside our bus. He sat right next to me at the front of the bus and we talked about Pink Floyd. Super nice guy. It was a pretty wild week.
You have had an interesting life.
It’s true. Im 40 now but i never had kids and chased my dreams from 14 to 35. I dont tell any stories irl very much anymore because some people think I’m showing out or making shit up. Examples:
- Had coffee with Pierce Broznan… at his house in Malibu. Wild story.
- Avengers Endgame spoiler crew sound guy. Wild story.
- I was at Derek Rose’s house, doing an interview when he got traded from the Bulls the first time. Wild story. And so much other random shit like that.
Seattle’s music scene had to invent its own heroes because nobody bothered crossing the Rockies for less than Los Angeles.
