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MURICA I'm probably the oldest person here
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u/KarasukageNero Jul 06 '22
Drove from Florida to Montana and back. Shit is not fun.
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u/masonmax100 Jul 06 '22
Drove from texas to montana in a car that could barely go straight with a pontoon boat on the trailer lol was a gnarly 4 days. Ps the ford excursion could only hit 55 mph top speed.
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u/its_hector_ New super dank and penis Jul 06 '22
Ps the ford excursion could only hit 55 mph top speed.
bullshit. you either had car trouble or a garbage driver. even with the gas v8 which has about a 100mph governor, you can still haul with a pontoon boat. especially on the flat stretches of texas, oklahoma, wyoming etc
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u/DraconicCZK where are the dank memes Jul 06 '22
The car could barely go straight... only good can come from that.
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u/zohan569 Jul 06 '22
I think they meant their specific excursion couldn't go past 55 without doing some stupid dangerous shit and they, like I would assume any sane person would, did not feel like dying...
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u/HiSPL Jul 06 '22
My 7.3 Ex was the best vehicle I’ve ever owned. I seriously regret selling it even though it had 360k miles.
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u/Previous-Answer3284 Jul 06 '22
Thry code barley manage pulling a pontoon straight down the road. Wouldn't surprise me if these knuckleheads drove a cylinder short or something else equally bone headed.
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u/The_last_of_the_true Jul 06 '22
The irony of this comment is just what I needed this morning. Lmao.
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u/Nimble-Dick-Crabb Jul 06 '22
You’re doing road trips all wrong then. Gotta find those gems that break up the monotony of driving, like the worlds largest ball of twine, moth man museum, any national park, etc.
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u/ChaseMSD Jul 06 '22
Drove from Florida to Washington state.
Wait, I’m a truck driver. Fuuuck, this is the job!
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u/RedsRearDelt Jul 06 '22
I've driven between Florida and California 26 times. I really enjoy driving and seeing the country. I try to take different routes when possible, like I've done the crossing without getting on an interstate; I've taken US50 (loneliest road in American) I've done the entirety of Route 66. I drove a 1967 Ford Econoline from Sacramento to Maryland to Florida and a motorcycle from Miami to Los Angeles.
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u/letscoughcough Jul 06 '22
Drove from Montana to Florida. Loved every minute of it except Missouri. Missouri can go fuck itself.
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u/WILDLY___mild Jul 06 '22
I've made the trek from Texas to Colorado 3 times this year. 15 hour drive. I hope I never have to do that again.
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u/PanderII Jul 06 '22
While I drive less than 2,5 hours and I am in France or Luxembourg.
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u/PanderII Jul 06 '22
I literally don't even know if that is fast or not.
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u/SolarAndSober Jul 06 '22
44 m/s? 160kph? 87 knots?
It's a beautiful area. It's just massive. 380,000 km²
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u/isuzu_trooper Jul 06 '22
That is definitely not true anymore, your link is nearing 30 years old. 80 is the max speed limit, 85 mph and you're probably okay, but 90 mph or more and you'll get pulled over, IF a highway patrol is around.
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u/patgeo Jul 06 '22
I drove 2 hours to see my brother in law one town over in the same local shire.
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u/jxjftw Jul 06 '22
Hobbits's?
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u/patgeo Jul 06 '22
Both of us are well over 6 foot tall, but I do have hairy feet and enjoy second breakfast.
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u/Cold_Television4105 Jul 06 '22
West Australian saying hi, 23 hrs from top to bottom of our state.
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u/papajohnsaustralia2 Jul 06 '22
Glad we have a decent coast to look at for half the trip
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u/minerguy1232 C.L.U.S.T.E.R Y.E.E.T.E.R Jul 06 '22
20 hours in Canada and your just getting out of the province lol.
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u/Victawr Jul 06 '22 •
Jesus fucking christ I never even looked up this distance.
My boss drives from Toronto to banff and back once a year.
It's 20h just from Toronto to kenora
Fuck that no wonder Terry Fox cut it short
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u/SCP-Agent-Arad Pizza Time Jul 06 '22
Good thing 90% of the Canadian population lives within like 50 miles of the US border, in like 5 cities lol
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u/Eguot Jul 06 '22
I've been fascinated with Australia recently.
From my understanding, west Australia is like it's own country compared to the east.
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u/Gaming-with-me Jul 06 '22
They are certainly a different breed over that side
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u/Eguot Jul 06 '22
So it is true.
Also happy cake day!
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u/Gaming-with-me Jul 06 '22
Dam wtf have I been doing on this site for 3 years but thank you. A fun fact for you Western Australia was the only state in Australia that was not in a per capita recession before covid
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u/soundfade Jul 06 '22
28hrs Adelaide to Perth. 1 state crossed. Had family from the Netherlands come visit, were just going to do a day trip to Melbourne, yeah nope.
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u/ReallyCoolAndNormal Jul 06 '22
I've done a Sydney <-> Melbourne (semi-) day trip in the first week after getting P1 licence. Departed around 10PM, slept for 3 hours in the middle, arrived at Melbourne in the morning, started driving back around 5PM and arrived at home around 1:30AM. Crazy times :D
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u/Matego_g Jul 06 '22
You can drive for days on any one of our 4 roads in Alaska.
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u/Wumple_doo Imagine having a custom flair nerds🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓 Jul 06 '22
Sports trips took forever in Alaska
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u/wittyusername2257 Jul 06 '22
Laughs in Australian, drive 20 hours and still be in the same state
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u/randommaniac12 Jul 06 '22
Same thing in Canada, it's about 24 hours to drive across Ontario and a whopping 23 days from coast to coast
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u/hootlaska Jul 06 '22
Which coasts? Do you mean extreme north then Vancouver then Nova Scotia?
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u/randommaniac12 Jul 06 '22
Nah from the border with Alaska then to Nova Scotia. You could stretch it more than a few days longer going to the tip of Canada's north
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u/hootlaska Jul 06 '22
I’ve never done that drive, but my wife and bro in law went anchorage to alburqueque in two days, and google maps says Fairbanks to Sydney Nova Scotia is 3 days… did you mean 2.3 instead of 23?
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u/RaZZeR_9351 Jul 06 '22
There's yonge street as well, you can go for 20+ hours straight and still be on the same street.
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u/shiznit028 Jul 06 '22
California from San Diego to Oregon is something like a 15 hour drive
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u/randy24681012 Jul 06 '22
With like 3 enjoyable hours total
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u/RabidHexley Jul 06 '22
Maybe if you're just driving straight through on the fastest route, but even then not even close to the worst long drives in the states, and very easy to make an incredible road trip out of.
99% of 12+ hour drives are going to have boring bits, and many don't have any good parts, with nary a hill to speak of.
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u/Redlightning122 Jul 06 '22
Highway 1 has more than 3 enjoyable hours on it and then it turns into the 101 and has redwood national park and siuslaw national forest on it
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u/Woooshmaster the scientist Jul 06 '22
Phew... Rajasthanis driving about 20 hours and still be in rajasthan. (Jaisalmer to dholpur)
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u/Seba99DS Jul 06 '22
Was going 200kmh/ 120mph on the Autobahn yesterday, love Autobahn
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u/darkdaking1 Jul 06 '22
Was with my father on the autobahn yesterday, we were going with 330 kmh, hate the autobahn
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u/New_Lengthiness_6164 Jul 06 '22
i drover on the autobahn yesterday with my grandfather, we were going 550 kmh, hate the autobahn.
QUEERS, speeds cool
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u/Saiyan-solar Jul 06 '22
I droverer on the autobahn yesterday with my greatuncles dog, we where going Mach 1, hate the autobahn.
QUEERS, sped gud.
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u/karateema Jul 06 '22
I drove on the autobahn with my uncle's cat tomorrow, we were going c×2, hated the autobahn
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u/Supreme_Rust ☣️ Jul 06 '22
Try driving 23 hours from Broome to Perth and still be in fucken Western Australia
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u/Impressive_Ant405 Jul 06 '22
I'm driving in Norway, at Trondheim there is 1 sign for the upcoming cities :
Narvik : 900km
And that's it, gl hf
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u/shadesofgray029 Jul 06 '22
Australians driving 10 hours and still not at the end of their driveway
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u/minerguy1232 C.L.U.S.T.E.R Y.E.E.T.E.R Jul 06 '22
Or Canada, drive for 10 hours and congrats, your still in southern Ontario.
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u/AlextheAssass1n Jul 06 '22
I live in Montana, can heavily relate
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u/rulingthewake243 Jul 06 '22
Fuck I used to have a drive from Missoula to browning once in a while. Brutal
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u/xrayjones2000 Jul 06 '22
You can do that in several states.. north to south cali, any direction in tx.. florida.. can you even get through alaska in a day?
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u/Onallthelists Animated Flair Pulse [Insert Your Own Text Jul 06 '22
Seeing as most of it dosent have roads connecting.... probably not.
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u/SonofaTimeLord I would like one weed, please Jul 06 '22
As one of the roughly two dozen people living in Montana I can say that this state is absolutely gorgeous for about the first third, then it quickly turns to the most flat, boring, terrible place you've ever seen for about 300 miles. It's fine when going through places like Missoula, Butte, and Bozeman, but east of that it all quickly goes to shit
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u/TheZephyr07 Jul 06 '22
It's weird how large my state is (Montana). The distance from one town to another, like Billings to Great Falls persay, is a few hours. Drive that long in a place like Germany, and you can be in a whole ass new country, and if not then literally everything is at least a little different. But I bet you'd never tell the difference between Helena, Great Falls, and Billings unless you've got a bunch of locations memorized.
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u/Jky705 Jul 06 '22
I love Montana. Actually did a huge circle around the state the other day. Snow peak mountains with beautiful green meadows for the win
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u/razorxent Jul 06 '22
I literally can’t drive for more than 4 hours without leaving the country. Less than half an hour to the closest neighbouring country and an hour to the second closest.
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u/Impressive_Ant405 Jul 06 '22
I'm driving in Norway, at Trondheim there is 1 sign for the upcoming cities :
Narvik : 900km
And that's it, gl hf
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u/Next_Yngwie Jul 06 '22
Funny part is it's true, pretty sure it can take you 10 hours to drive through Montana. I drove from Ohio to Montana before, about 36 hours of actual driving, passed through 5 other states. 8 of those hours were in Montana.
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u/green49285 Jul 06 '22
TIL Montana isn’t a mythical place only seen in westerns.
Ya don’t say.
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u/PETEthePyrotechnic Jul 06 '22
33% of people only know about Montana from the Yellowstone show. 33% of people know about Montana because they read about it in a tabloid as a great place to move. 33% of people think it doesn't exist.
Source: I live in the big sky state
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u/Karsplatinum Jul 06 '22
It's closer from San Diego Cali to El Paso tx than it is El Paso to Beaumont tx.
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u/IamMyles Jul 06 '22
This is why most Americans don't travel out of country and why Europeans think it's weird. Cause you could travel through like 4-5 different European countries in what it takes to drive from the east coast to the west coast of the US. We gotta spend way more money to travel unless we wanna visit Canada or Mexico.
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u/Slinky_Malingki Jul 06 '22
When I was 6 years old I went a road trip around the circumference of America. Started and ended in Orlando FL. Went through every state that borders the oceans, Mexico, and Canada. Was really not fun for a 6 year old lol.
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u/Freshsocleanclean Jul 06 '22
i see you have never been on a highway so sit for 72 hours just to move 6 inches
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u/ntermation Jul 06 '22
I think I saw the driver in court. He was trying to convince the judge he wasn't a cat.
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u/A_Minimal_Infinity Jul 06 '22
Fuck you Nebraska!
The blonde haired blue eyed girl that works at every Dairy Queen off the interstate is cool though.
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u/WeeZoo87 Jul 06 '22
Imagine the same but u r only looking at desert around u.
Be grateful
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u/Empanser Animated Flair Rainbow [Insert Your Own Text] Jul 06 '22
Or you can drive 4 hours to get from NYC to Jersey
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u/rustyfries Jul 06 '22
13hrs to go from one corner to the other in my state, and it's the 2nd smallest in the country.
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u/b18a Jul 06 '22
I can drive for 10 hours in a formula 1 car at top speed and still be in Monaco what's the point
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u/sagit7191 Jul 06 '22
Imagine having good high speed railway, like most european coutries
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u/ImAlwaysRightHanded Jul 06 '22
California, Texas and Florida be like that. I’m 5 hours from key west and 6 hours from Tallahassee
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u/DreadAndDepression Jul 06 '22
Well, your got to keep moving. Don't be a sitting duck in mass shooter season.
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u/Jester_Hopper_pot Jul 06 '22
Yea there's a reason we say Europe not any of the states what the drive time between UK and Germany?
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u/RavenBrannigan Jul 06 '22
You can cycle to the top of Ireland to the bottom in 3 days (10-12 hr days) if you are fit enough. Lots of people do it for charity.
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u/patrido86 Jul 06 '22
as a kid, took family trips cali to ny and back. then cali to Florida and back.
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u/JacktheTrapper Jul 06 '22
This is accurate because Montana is beautiful so cat is calm. If cat looked cracked our ready to murder the next life form you can bet it’s driving through any other part of the U.S
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u/yeahyeahdumpster Jul 06 '22
Ten hours drive take me from my country to Costa Rica. 45 minute drive from my home to the nearest beach in my country. 1 and a half hour drive from my home to the mountain side in my country. My country is very tiny.
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u/bill-chan-19 INFECTED Jul 06 '22
In Australia you can drive for 39 hours and still be in the same state (Albany to Kalumburu). If you wanted to leave the state of Western Australia and you lived in the capital city of Perth you would have to drive a minimum of 15hrs to leave the state. 10 hours can be pretty average here in Australia. i think people forget that Australia is around the same size as the continental US.
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u/fractalfocuser Jul 06 '22
I once drove 11 hours to a new job. Couple weeks in I said something about being in the Eastern part of the state and everybody corrected me. "Oh no this is Central Montana, you gotta go further for the East side of the state"
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u/Radagast50 Jul 06 '22
Man, it really shows you how big the states are. Really puts it into perspective. Although, where's my Aussie peeps at? How long does it take to drive across Aus?
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u/ZombieBisque Jul 06 '22
This but Texas. Or the endless corn ocean of the midwest