Takes 2 days to drive from Thunder Bay to Toronto. Still in Ontario.
And then the Aussies show up.
Are talking countries or states?
8hrs on the road and you haven’t left your driveway
Amatures.
Surely you can do better than that. NZ almost has you beat.
At least you have a road that reaches diagonally across WA. If Alaska did it would take a lot longer than that
Many of the roads across the interior are probably gravel. At least they were when I last journeyed there. The ones along the West Australian coast are paved though. They form what’s called Highway 1 (or at least it used to be).
Windsor to Sioux Lookout is similar if you stay in Ontario.
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In Europe, 200km is a long distance
In the US, 200 years is a long time
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)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.
Meanwhile, Texas
California is pretty similar if you’re going north to South… if you avoid commute hours. Then you’re looking at. 16 hour drive.
Ok, and?
This makes Italy smaller than I thought it was tbh
Well:
what’s the “highway speed” in Italy? Is it 90kph?
You should check out Western Australia. Texas is tiny in comparison.
Edit to add:
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.
If you’re on the road, it’s wise to hit peak outside of urban centers.
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.
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.
Hop a train, and you’re in another country quick though.
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
And I would rather be in Germany than any of those states.
I’d rather eat Detroit pizza than anything served in Germany.
Clearly never had good schnitzel.
You’ve never had pork knuckle
Or Maultaschen, or Käsespätzle, or Senfbraten…
Hey, fuck you buddy!
I’m not your buddy, friend!
I’m not your friend, guy!
I’m not your guy, dude!
Fuck yeah lad.
They both never leave the country
You can fly a passenger plane at full speed in a straight line for 10 hours and still be in France.
I assume this is referring to French Guiana. You can say you start in France and end in France. But I would say it’s unreasonable to say you’re still in France, you left France and stayed out of it for the majority of the trip
Not my fault France has shitty planes /s
Now seriously, airspace above international waters does not count
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
That’s because you also have an American car.
Badum tss…
Europeans were so insistant on getting freedom of movement in the EU just to not fucking use it.
We just take the train
Good for them dismantling an injustice on principle.
That’s true freedom
Does that say something about European travel, or European families?
probably
On the other hand, they would need to learn 5 languages in case they need to ask for directions on that travel.
Well… as there is no speed limit on german highways, you could theoretically visit every part of germany within ten minutes including one stop at a doener-man, to get a doener.
It’s also possible to drive through about ten countries in 8 hours in Central Europe.
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.
Well that’s about ten.
And at least 3 are Southern Europe.
Close enough.
The question is, how many states will you visit during that drive through Germany?
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
And at what speed (Autobahn!)
I count 7.
I only count one. Mostly because I only know of one and its location with certainty.
Germany is subdivided into Bundesländer = states.
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.
That’s fine, it’s the most important one anyway.
Signed, a totally not biased Bavarian
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
we should have pushed Bavaria to Austria… :)
– greetings from Hamburg
Agree, with love from Baden-Württemberg.
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.
Germany has the Autobahn system and thus relatively short travel times. I’m pretty sure even smaller countries like Latvia have two points separated by an 8+ hour drive!
🇱🇻 stronk!
Now I’m curious what speed these mapping sites assume for the autobahn when predicting travel time.
Idk about Google Maps but Mapy.cz allows buses to go hella fast
How?
You can see the real time, which means the 1 min is pulled from a timetable, from 2 stations actually very close together (and named similar, too). They imported OSM data wrong, one of the stops is at the nearest road segment to 50°N 10°E. It has been fixed since.
Edit: actually not quite!
https://mapy.com/en/turisticka?l=1&source=pubt&id=28582585&ds=1&x=10.0007124&y=50.0001362&z=17This time though, it’s the Z-M Gewerbegebiet stop and it has no timetables associated with it, unlike the real Z-M Gewerbegebiet in the shopping district of Zella-Mehlis. Planning a trip by public transport therefore falls back to an hour-long walk from the nearest stop in Arnstein, for a total travel time of about 5 hours (as opposed to 1 hour by car) from the real Zella-Mehlis.
130 km/h as that is the “recommended” or “default” speed (Richtgeschwindigkeit in german)
And how many German “Länder” did that trip drive through? Drive for 8 hours, still in US; drive for 8 hours, still in Germany would be more correct.
Anyway, back to your regularly scheduled shitposts…
4 to 8.
Depending on the exact starting point and route.
