• @[email protected]
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    102 years ago

    American here: I don’t get it. Is the traffic really bad? The weather? Why is a 13 hour drive so bad?

      • I'm Hiding 🇦🇺
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        22 years ago

        Drove from a few hours north of Melbourne to Brisbane a few years ago. 20 hours straight. You’re not wrong.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 years ago

        Well, like, that’s a bit far for a single day drive, but not out of bounds. Particularly if you have two drivers and can switch, it seems pretty normal?

        • @[email protected]
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          32 years ago

          Fair enough but after renting a car and paying for fuel you might as well just fly and then you don’t lose a whole day.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      32 years ago

      Driving capital city to capital city, Sydney to Canberra or melb to Canberra are the only semi reasonable distances. Everywhere else it’s a full day driving minimum even to an adjacent state. Ymmv tho.

      • @flucksy_bango
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        12 years ago

        Lol, y’all think Americans don’t know about road trips? My family drove from Florida to Canada in a day. And it sucked.

        Granted, it wasn’t the heat blasted hellscape that most of Australia is. But it still sucked

        You realize America is pretty large, right? And that we may visit people who don’t live in our towns? My mother lives in the same state as me and we’re almost 300 miles apart.