It’s a “fast food” version of the Odyssey compared to the original Michelin-starred meal.
Turn off highways and watch what happens.
Pretty sure you can still take Rt 13 and Rt 20 most of the way. Going through each town and hitting lights will add some time, sure, but we’re talking an hour, maybe 90 minutes. Odysseus has no excuse.
I did it by accident. It was interesting.
20 goes coast to coast still i think
Almost like he shouldn’t have pissed off Poseidon…
It was back in the days before cars
Also probably not in New York
Probably? Do you have proof it wasn’t?
New Amsterdam?
Reminds me of this
“Sam, you’re breaking the car!”
Ok I’ll throw in mine too, SHERP!
This is actually the correct answer. The journey to and within Mordor would be nothing for a SHERP!!
I am going to downboat you because I’m a Subaru fan not because you are incorrect in your choice of vehicle.
(I actually upboated you)
When I first saw Subaru impresa back in 1998 I was a child, but I could see how special the car was. In fact, during late 90s and 2000s we had some very special cars coming out of rally.
Most movies would end faster if the main character was driving a Lancer.
- Little Miss Sunshine
- Driving Mrs. Daisy
- The Brave Little Toaster
- Planes, Trains, & Automobiles
- Homeward Bound
- Speed…
The exorcist would be a VERY different movie though…
The new testament
When I see a rally car, I see a Lancer careening through a missed curve at high speed and flying off into the forest only to get wraped around several innocent trees.
Lol. Reminds me of Moses wondering the desert for 40 years to go like 400 miles.
One does not simply drive into Mordor…oh hell you have an Evo? Go on you’re good
I don’t know not sure there is usable road? And this isn’t quiet the nazgul would be waiting for them and an ambush would be easy to set up.
Idk, maybe one of those Dakar cars could take gnarlier shortcuts
Ohio’s is 35 mins
Don’t eat the lotuses in Schenectady.
That was the whole point, wasn’t it?
The Odyssey happened a long time ago. Before Google Maps. Those were the MapQuest days so things weren’t so accurate and they probably got lost
Also taking a boat overland takes forever, they don’t sail well on land
Troy was under flash flood warning yesterday, so I probably should have had a boat. It was very wet.
You’d need to print them out for reference on the journey.
Look at Mr. Moneybags with a printer.
My parents would make me copy down directions by hand.
Only the best navigators could hold the map quest printout up at dashboard height with one hand and simultaneously watch the road signs, the road, and the turn by turn instructions simultaneously. Many failed and simply drove off the face of the earth.
Oh God that anxiety when the printed directions tell you to turn right in 3.5 miles, and you feel like you’ve gone about 5 but you’re not sure, and maybe that slight split in the road counted as a right turn, and now you should be moving on to the next step but you’re not quite sure…
I used to have to do food deliveries in a van this way. Just thinking about this still elevates my heart rate.
and even then it was early MapQuest days and I’m sure Odysseus “knew a shortcut”.
Wait. France is the land of the dead?
Always was.
Looks like the good old “Didn’t took a right at the crossroads and continued forward instead and then kept on insisting ‘I know the way’” driving problem.
Most of the bad stuff happened in Italy
This guy was so bad at sailing, it’s astounding.
I mean, he was a victim of the wrath of Poseidon, not that much you can do about that when at sea.
Which sort of paints Poseidon as incompetent. You’d imagine that the God of the sea would be able to reliably kill people at sea.
Sounds intentional to have Odysseus suffer and long for home, instead of killing him off quickly. The gods want to be entertained as well.
Then why not sink his ship five minutes from his home?
Poseidon was pissed off, not a complete asshole. Like not 100% anus - a bit less.
Zeus wouldn’t let him. Odysseus was fated to return home eventually.
599/600 isn’t a terrible performance.
True, that’s a fair point.
Seems to be decent at the sailing part. Navigation doesn’t seem to be even a minor part of his bailiwick
Sailing with no navigation skills is a risky endeavour, as he amply demonstrated.
No argument there. I’m very glad to have had GPS whenever I’ve been on a boat/ship, but if I absolutely had to, the BSA taught me to use a compass and astrolabe with a current OSRS chart.
That’s… a creative attempt at the traveling salesman problem.
Rome and Syracuse causally chilling in there…
Were they stupid?
No, they were just drawing it out for the Odysseus Cinematic Universe.
They took a boat, clearly a detour
That explains it. No direct water route. The Erie canal hadn’t been dug yet.
They used Bing maps.
Honda Odyssey is a good choice for that type of trip, but I’m more partial to a Crystler Pacifica, my self.
I prefer the Christler Pacifica, personally
I have one of those I love that thing
I noticed when he finally stepped back on his land again, he brought milk, because he told Telemachus back then that he was stepping out to get some milk. /s
