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Why not just take the High Speed Rail and get there in 45 minutes instead?

A 2 hour drive in Miami will get you to…north Miami

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

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.

When 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.

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."

In America, 100 years is a long time
In Europe, 100 miles is a long distance

Shout out the 1 hour 45 minute drive from JFK to just over the bridge into Jersey

could have this if politicians didn't fight high speed rail so much

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.

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

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.

Or just save being put in an ICE facility and go visit Canada and not be put in an ICE facility.

Edit typo

I like everything about this except the "being in the USA" part.

I had relatives over from wales visiting my grandmother in canberra. "Come, drive up for the day! "

Bitch i live in melbourne. The drive alone is longer than your entire "kingdom"

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.

it's actually not as bad as I thought it would be

We had family visit from the UK many years ago. They said after they visited Niagara Falls, they wanted to "pop over" to Prince Edward Island to see Anne of Green Gables. That is an 18h drive if you don't even stop to pee. They finally realized how big Canada really is when somebody showed them a map of England superimposed on a map of Canada.

Whilst in all about road trips this fool better be driving at 1500mph to make these times

I would skip Florida. You won't miss much.

Europeans do be like that.