- FrChazzz@lemmus.orgEnglish6 hours
Oh yeah? Well where I live I can drive for a solid 24 hours and never leave my county.
Because I live on O’ahu and I’d be driving in circles (or sitting in rush hour traffic coming from Westside into town, yeah)
- ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish11 hours
Takes 2 days to drive from Thunder Bay to Toronto. Still in Ontario.
- notabot@piefed.socialEnglish4 hours
Google maps says that journey would currently take 14:45, presumably at a legal speed, and while that’s long enough to split over two days, you probably can do it in one go. It’s not speeding that’ll get you, but tiredness.
- 19 hours
In Europe, 200km is a long distance
In the US, 200 years is a long time
- 7 hours
You’re comparing a state to an entire country. Perth in western Australia to Cairns in Queensland is 49 hours of driving.
It’s also nowhere near as beautiful as the drive from Cape Reinga to Bluff
- 16 hours
At least you have a road that reaches diagonally across WA. If Alaska did it would take a lot longer than that
- NoForwadSlashS@piefed.socialEnglish19 hours
And I would rather be in Germany than any of those states.
- 22 hours
i constantly hear stories of Europeans who won’t visit family because the drive is too long. i ask how long and they’re like “20-30 minutes” lmao. it has taken me that long to get to the store in some places I have lived in the US lol
21 hoursEuropeans were so insistant on getting freedom of movement in the EU just to not fucking use it.
- 17 hours
Does that say something about European travel, or European families?
- 21 hours
On the other hand, they would need to learn 5 languages in case they need to ask for directions on that travel.
- Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish13 hours
You should check out Western Australia. Texas is tiny in comparison.
Edit to add:
- 8 hours
There’s a joke that if you wanna piss off a Texan tell them we should cut Alaska in half and make TX the 3rd biggest state. Western Australia is still bigger 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.
- THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.worldEnglish18 hours
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.
- 5 hours
Yeah,we did Vancouver BC to Tijuana and I think about half the drive time was going into and out of LA.
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.
- 17 hours
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?
Idk tbh. Not sure why this route detoured instead of staying on the highway, but it only shaves off like 45 minutes
- 16 hours
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.
- 22 hours
It’s also possible to drive through about ten countries in 8 hours in Central Europe.
- 17 hours
I think any definition of Central Europe that includes 10 countries is really stretching it. Anyway, Poland-Slovakia-Czechia-Austria-Hungary-Slovenia-Croatia-B&H (8) should be barely possible to visit in an 8-hour trip over much of one former big country.
- 16 hours
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)- 16 hours
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.
- 21 hours
The question is, how many states will you visit during that drive through Germany?
- 7 hours
The highlighted route is only four states compared to the six states, therefore Deutschland is bigger than USAland.
- Rothe@piefed.socialEnglish19 hours
Yeah, the creators of the meme kind of bungled the punchline by choosing another federation as the European example. Because you literally will drive through several German states as well.
They should have chosen France or Poland, or Sweden, I think most people underestimates how big Sweden is in an European perspective.
I mean, it is a shitpost in the shitposting community
Bungling the meme, if anything, is right on brand lol
- neidu4@piefed.socialEnglish20 hours
I only count one. Mostly because I only know of one and its location with certainty.
- neidu4@piefed.socialEnglish20 hours
I know. I just never bothered to learn them, on the account of being scandinavian.
But I picked up somewhere somehow at some point that Munchen is in Bayern.
- BlindPenguin@piefed.socialEnglish20 hours
That’s fine, it’s the most important one anyway.
Signed, a totally not biased Bavarian
- 19 hours
Right, it’s the one place you’ll want to avoid at any cost. The only sign that allows you to do a U-turn on the highway is “Willkommen in Bayern”.
Signed, a definitely biased Swabian
- 17 hours
Certainly not a Bavarian Swabian.
But tbh Bavaria should be split up anyway. Bavarian Swabia should go to BW, Franconia should be its own state and Old Bavaria should be split into occupation zones.
- neidu4@piefed.socialEnglish20 hours
Looking at the map, I think I’ve actually been to all of them except Brandenburg and Saarland.
EDIT: Unsure about Thüringen. And upon checking the autobahn map, I may have briefly been to Saarland.
ITT: bunch of amateurs
