And then the Aussies show up.
Are talking countries or states?
8hrs on the road and you haven’t left your driveway
Shoulda started on the southern Maine border. You can touch 10 states in about 8 hours.
(ME NH MA RI CT NY NJ PA DE MD)Yeah, the east coast is great for just collecting states. Come out west, and some states can take 12 hours to cross – a mostly straight corridor.
Amatures.
Windsor to Sioux Lookout is similar if you stay in Ontario.
At least you have a road that reaches diagonally across WA. If Alaska did it would take a lot longer than that
Many of the roads across the interior are probably gravel. At least they were when I last journeyed there. The ones along the West Australian coast are paved though. They form what’s called Highway 1 (or at least it used to be).
Well… as there is no speed limit on german highways, you could theoretically visit every part of germany within ten minutes including one stop at a doener-man, to get a doener.
They both never leave the country
You can fly a passenger plane at full speed in a straight line for 10 hours and still be in France.
I assume this is referring to French Guiana. You can say you start in France and end in France. But I would say it’s unreasonable to say you’re still in France, you left France and stayed out of it for the majority of the trip
Not my fault France has shitty planes /s
Now seriously, airspace above international waters does not count
Meanwhile, Texas
That’s the joke. Americans say Europeans can travel 8 hours and touch x number of states but in America you don’t leave any.
Hop a train, and you’re in another country quick though.
California is pretty similar if you’re going north to South… if you avoid commute hours. Then you’re looking at. 16 hour drive.
You should check out Western Australia. Texas is tiny in comparison.
What’s with the dip down to Marfa? I mean, it would be dark by the time you go there, so I guess watch for the lights?
I think you can also drive in California in a straight line for 16 hours. I mapped it once during a slow work day lol
Yeah, I5 will take you from Mexico to Canada. And that drive across CA is long as shit when you’re going north to South.
And CA has some world-famous high-traffic spots around places like LA, which makes it even worse during commute hours.
San Diego to Oregon is, IMHO, better done as a 2 day drive. And both of those days are still going to suck.
If you’re on the road, it’s wise to hit peak outside of urban centers.
It’s kind of hard to avoid getting screwed around places like LA, the Bay Area, or Sacramento. You kind of have to go through them, and unfortunately, most of the side road shortcuts are no longer secrets. GPS has been offering up those shortcuts to drivers for a while now, and even the workarounds are slow.
Your best weapon is to avoid those areas during commute hours and to plan ahead.
Ok, and?
This makes Italy smaller than I thought it was tbh
Well:
And how many German “Länder” did that trip drive through? Drive for 8 hours, still in US; drive for 8 hours, still in Germany would be more correct.
Anyway, back to your regularly scheduled shitposts…
4 to 8.
Depending on the exact starting point and route.
In Europe, 200km is a long distance
In the US, 200 years is a long time
And I would rather be in Germany than any of those states.
I’d rather eat Detroit pizza than anything served in Germany.
You’ve never had pork knuckle
Hey, fuck you buddy!
I’m not your buddy, friend!
I’m not your friend, guy!
I’m not your guy, dude!
Fuck yeah lad.
Germany has the Autobahn system and thus relatively short travel times. I’m pretty sure even smaller countries like Latvia have two points separated by an 8+ hour drive!
🇱🇻 stronk!
Now I’m curious what speed these mapping sites assume for the autobahn when predicting travel time.
Idk about Google Maps but Mapy.cz allows buses to go hella fast
130 km/h as that is the “recommended” or “default” speed (Richtgeschwindigkeit in german)
A state is part of a country and comparing a state to a country in this context didn’t make sense. “Hey this subregion is smaller than your region”. In the same area you drive through at least 4 Germany states.
If you really want to play look at this.
22h without leaving a single Canadian province https://maps.app.goo.gl/2vWuVHRCt4F8ckSL8?g_st=ac
If Germany was a US state, it would be the fifth largest by land area, but its population of 83mil is more than the two most populous US-states combined (CA 39mil + TX 32mil ≈ 71mil). Its top three states, population-wise (NW 18mil, BY 13mil, BW 11mil) would individually make it into the top ten (with BW being #10, so it’d get pushed out if we also add the other two).
So, yeah, the comparison isn’t really fair.
Looks like Hamburg to Munich, the highlighted route goes through HH, NI, HE and BY, four states.
Or how about Sweden, more than 20h from top to bottom.
Yeah… the Swedes… turning every top into a bottom in less than a day…
I don’t get it. It’s this a “gay joke”?
Thanks for the laugh!
When you drive though Montana lengthwise, it just never seems to end. And sometime youre driving for hours and the only part of the scenery that changes is the position of the sun.
