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Pff, with traffic jams you can do that without ever leaving Brussels.
Drove from normandy through belgium to the netherlands. Can confirm. We saw traffic jams unlike ever before. Tried to take a shortcut, but ended up in Brussel’s airport. Later after some redirections, we almost ended up in antwerpen airport too. Nothing there makes sense. Not even the parking lots.
And I bet it was all filler content and shitty roaming monster encounters. Open world design has gone too far!
Just take the train…
Oh, sorry, my European mind did not realize that that option doesn’t exist over there…
We have trains, they’ll just take 2-3x as long.
And I’m not really exaggerating, to get from SLC to Denver would take 15 hours (and departs at 3:30AM; no other options), vs ~8 hours in a car. Oh, if you want a sleeper car with a bunkbed, that’ll be 2x the cost of a hotel room.
So yeah, it’s an option, just a really crappy one.
Took the train from Toronto to NYC in 01. No thanks. Never again. Will drive if I can.
Even if it was Europe it would be a train from nowhere to nowhere.
Alas!
Btw you can do it also in Germany more or less.
I believe it’s possible also in France .
Edit: don’t want to insult anyone, I was just curious, nothing else.
You can fly 10+ hours from France and still land in France 💀
Imagine the horror of not being able to escape France. Truly a fate worse than death
The sun never sets on the
BritishFrench empire!
In addition to the other comment about it being a single state within the US, we’re also talking about roughly 1500-1600 kilometers in the Texas map. It would mostly be 70-75mph (120kph) highways the whole way.
My question is how much of that is highway travel and/or straight? In the Texas map most of that travel will be highways at 80mph. I know Germany has the autobahn but living in Colombia has made me suspicious of long travel times which actually have short distances traveled since this country is very mountainous and I don’t think a straight road exists here.
1/3 to 1/2 of the Texas trip will be interstate highways. The rest is mixed bag of divided highways with at grade crossings and two lane highways.
Texas will still make their back roads 80mph lmao, even with grade crossings
For comparison, Bellingham, WA to Key West, FL. Same country, 2 days without stops.
I tried Brazil. Got 79h going East to West from Recife to Cruzeiro do Sul and 90h going South to North from Chuí to Oiapoque. Granted, our roads aren’t the best but you’re still looking at over 5000km of travel either way.
That’s a long ass road trip, thanks for sharing. I was trying to get directions from Alaska to southern Argentina but Google said nope
You can’t drive from north to south america! Look up Darien Gap
You’re comparing an entire country to the US’ 2nd largest state of fifty, though.
As stated in other comments I don’t care about dimensions, I wanted to share just a trivia and not spark a dumb contest (spoiler, it did not work)
Yes, those are countries, not single states within a country. Different things.
edit: ya’ll are acting so fucking weird in this comment thread. Jesus Christ I don’t even give a shit about the size of America or the US/EU pissing contest, I was merely and correctly pointing out the non-equivalence of the items being compared. Holy shit get a fucking life if you give two shits about the topic itself, goddamn. The hate boner some of you have for one country or another to the point of spite downvoting and intentionally misinterpreting shit is fucking ridiculous.
You are united states tho. Similiar to EU in 100 years.
Yes, how is this relevant? The point is they were comparing the length of time to cross a single American state to the time to cross an entire country, which are two different things. Driving through Texas isn’t equivalent to driving through Germany, it’s equivalent to driving through Bavaria.
The longest I can get for Bavaria is five hours.
Ok, edited it.
Ah, in that case, no, you’re still wrong and we are not anything like the EU, not really. The of autonomy and sovereignty each member of the EU has is vastly different, and mostly vastly greater, than that of each of the individual states of America. Again, the correct equivalence isn’t America = EU, it’s America = Germany and Texas = Bavaria. Hope that helps.
Better now?
You guys have funny gatekeeping. Oh well, to each his own, I guess
You guys get to make fun of the imperial system, and healthcare, and fahrenheit, and gun crime. Let us have one thing.
Fair enough
Ok but western Australia has everybody here beat
I was coming in with this cause it’s straighter haha.
Then see you WA post.
I’ve done both of these trips before too and them some to get where I’m actually going
Americans don’t really care about how big AUS is, we just can’t figure out how your wildlife is as deadly as our high school students
Yep, I cannot comprehend how there is so much space allocated to so few people and they still drown in one fucking housing crisis after another.
If you are going to gobble up that much space for yourselves on this planet that we all share, stop fucking around and put it to good use!
Best I can do is another McMansion.
The housing crisis has zero to do with available space, except that in the hubs of industry, like silicon valley, there are more people wanting to live there than there’s space. That’s not true across the country.
But no one is going to build a house in the middle of nowhere to help with housing because (a) hardly anyone wants to live in the middle of nowhere, away from all the jobs, and (b) the people building housing are motivated to get as much money as they can.
We as a society could 100% solve the housing crisis, but it involves socialism, not capitalism, which a lot of Americans still have a problem with. The solution isn’t constrained by space, which the US has tons of.
I’m all for the socialism, but could we also get the homestead act back? Free land and a grant to build a house if we’re willing to go rural as fuck and grow our own food. Maybe combine with eco friendly stuff. Have to build a cob house, must use ecologically safe farming techniques.
Euros: Why didn’t Americans go to other countries?
Americans: there’s only three countries on our entire damned continent, and ours is in the middle. Without needing to fly we have literally two choices. It we could drive for a thousand miles and still be in America.
All of continental Europe is smaller than our country and we mostly all speak the same language, more or less. It’s debatable if Louisianans speak English.
America has more than 3 countries, if i remember well from my geography class
Everything south to Panama and the whole Caribbean is part of North America.
Continental Europe is about 10 M km^2 (I subtracted the UK and Iceland for you) Th US is about 9,5 M km^2
So about the same, which is impressive, but it doesn’t hold you captive. You can still go to other countries on holiday.
Also there are a ton of native languages within the US plus settler languages like Tejano and Pennsylvanian Dutch. So if one wanted to have a cultural vacation, it would be possible.
Here in the UK I could spend 13 hours on the M25 and would have only gone four junctions. The American mind cannot comprehend this.
You can do the same thing a few different ways on I-40. For real along a stretch in New Mexico and Texas, there’s very little between Santa Rosa and Amarillo. You can also do it here on the east coast, if you do about 40 laps of Raleigh, 25 if one of those hours is between 5 and 6 pm.
Welcome to Finland.
Fastest route from south of Norway to north of Norway would be through Sweden and take you 1 day and 6 hours, if you want to stay in Norway for the whole route it would take you 1 day and 11 hours. Driving to Rome would be faster.
Damn, i was like " how slow are you travelling in norway? New zealand guy also posted ca 2500 km and it just took him 29 hours. How can he do it in less than a day when you need almost two days"
Norway is basically just mountains and fjords so the roads are seldom straight.
This is the landscape you will be mostly driving through
And the further north you get the worse the road conditions will be, not to mention parts of the “highway” up there goes through the towns with lower speed limit. People up north likes to joke about the infrastructure being bad up there just to slow down Russia if they ever decide to invade.
On the plus side, it’s a beautiful road trip to make. Much more enjoyable than driving down south near the capital where it’s less mountainous but better highway.
I’d also like to point out that 29 hours is 1 day and 5 hours, so not that far off from the fastest route if you go through Sweden.
I’d also like to point out that 29 hours is 1 day and 5 hours, so not that far off from the fastest route if you go through Sweden.< Yeah thats my point. It took me too long to realize that it is only 6 hours more. 35 hours vs 29 hours or 1d5h and 1d1hh. Conversion problem. When everything else is metric, you can get it wrong some times, my bad.
A lot of you guys sharing pictures of your whole country as a 15 hour drive are missing the point here.
We’re just optimistic federalists
Tbf you drive super slow on your lonely highways. If that Was an Autobahn you could easily cut that time in half.
My european mind can very well comprehend this. And a few hours more
Why is fuel called gas
Like so many things we Americans get bitched at for saying, it’s because that’s what the Brits used to call it.
A British man named John Cassell sold a brand of petroleum-based fuel trademarked as Cazeline. This eventually became Gazeline and then genericized as gasoline, shortened to “gas.”
One could ask why only “gasoline” is called “petrol” elsewhere in the world when several other fuels such as kerosene and diesel are also petroleum-based. Why isn’t diesel also called “petrol?”
The problem with “gas” is, that it’s a state of matter. Usually the word gas is used for natural gas that you’d use in a gas stove. Some vehicles are even upgraded with an actual gas tank, making it double confusing.
Not even the longest route within one state by a long shot:
As usual, California beats Texas
This blew my European mind. Not because of the length of the road, but because it’s only 7$… Where I live highways are bloody expensive!
