Yeah, I remember flying off to Europe from Sydney. First leg was like 14 hours or something, stopping in Qatar, but the first 7 or so was just clearing Oz, going NW. You see the plane finally exit the west coastline to the Indian Ocean and you realise you’re halfway to the middle east. It’s huge and such a tiny population.
Going further south, to Red Rocks or even to Island Bay, makes the cape 14 hrs away. Basically the longest trip on “nice” roads in the North Island. Could make it 14 1/2 hrs if you take it to Cape Palliser; but that is basically the limit in NZ.
Does your daughter have a lead foot? 2000 miles is way over 24 hours of driving and that assumes no extended breaks or heavy traffic. Simple math says to drive 2000 miles in 24 hours you need to average over 83 miles an hour?
I would guess that a more likely average speed for a drive that long, assuming multiple drivers trading off and not stopping for more than fuel and bathroom breaks, would be about 60mph average. That would take a bit over 33 hours.
Does your daughter have a lead foot? 2000 miles is way over 24 hours of driving
As I said, it is over 24 hours of driving. I did not realize I needed to specify exactly how long the trip took her, or how much non-driving time was spent.
According to my map app it is 27 hours of driving, that is over 24 hours of driving as my original post stated.
Man its easy to forget how fucking microscopic Europe is.
You can drive for 8 hours in North America and still have no healthcare.
Depends on how close you are to the Mexican border.
Yeah, it means we can get anything we want in just a half hour drive.
I live in Florida and could just about make it to Miami in 8 hours.
I drove from Cairns to Brisbane in one hit when I was in Australia. 21 hours of open highway. Only half the state covered.
I drove with a friend 13 hours across Oz to the coast; looked at map was a tiny little bit of the bottom part…FFS Oz is huge.
Drive 13hrs in NZ and you would go from Wellington to somewhere in Northland; or the whole length of the South Island.
Yeah, I remember flying off to Europe from Sydney. First leg was like 14 hours or something, stopping in Qatar, but the first 7 or so was just clearing Oz, going NW. You see the plane finally exit the west coastline to the Indian Ocean and you realise you’re halfway to the middle east. It’s huge and such a tiny population.
13 hours would get you from the Wellington CBD to Cape Reinga, which is as far north as you can get on public roads. 8 would get you past Auckland.
Indeed.
Going further south, to Red Rocks or even to Island Bay, makes the cape 14 hrs away. Basically the longest trip on “nice” roads in the North Island. Could make it 14 1/2 hrs if you take it to Cape Palliser; but that is basically the limit in NZ.
I’ll say it again, FFS Oz is huge.
My daughter just came to visit me in New Mexico from Maryland. 2,000 miles / 3218 km, it is over 24 hours of driving.
Does your daughter have a lead foot? 2000 miles is way over 24 hours of driving and that assumes no extended breaks or heavy traffic. Simple math says to drive 2000 miles in 24 hours you need to average over 83 miles an hour?
I would guess that a more likely average speed for a drive that long, assuming multiple drivers trading off and not stopping for more than fuel and bathroom breaks, would be about 60mph average. That would take a bit over 33 hours.
As I said, it is over 24 hours of driving. I did not realize I needed to specify exactly how long the trip took her, or how much non-driving time was spent.
According to my map app it is 27 hours of driving, that is over 24 hours of driving as my original post stated.
That, and the crazy good infrastructure. Travelling 1000km in Poland is a completely different story than travelling the same distance in the Balkans
The new map projection from the UN is like a memento mori for it
I mean not really? It’s actually really big for a peninsula. I’m not sure why you’d expect it to be bigger.