The Good The Bad & The Indifferent

[CaptBeefheart]

I'm not going to win this competition. Seoul to Busan (i.e. Keijo to Fusan) is four hours in good traffic, which is admittedly rare. I did my honeymoon in Arizona and Nevada (Phoenix, Grand Canyon and Vegas) in a rental car and the missus, who is Korean, was pretty blown away by the distances and open spaces.

Have a great Memorial Day back there, and remember those who the holiday commemorates.

Cheers,
CC

[DW]

ORIGINAL: Smoky Stoker

ORIGINAL: Encircled

To us Brits, thats just an insane drive.

Thats from Lands End to John O'Groats, give or take a few miles

A lot of Uropeens have that problem. When I worked at a hotel in New York City, we had several cases of visitors missing important appointments because they failed to realize that Boston is as far from New York as Hamburg from Berlin. It's such a small distance on a map of the US!

That can work both ways.

A couple I know was vacationing in England, and they plotted out a driving tour of the lake district. Looking at the map, they thought the drive would take most of the day.

Yet, when they finished their route and arrived back at their hotel, it wasn't yet noon.

[Lokasenna]

...this is what map scales are for.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

ORIGINAL: HansBolter

From the tip of the peninsula to the tip of the panhandle is quite the drive in Florida as well.
The states are big!
Well most of em anyway...Rhode Island, New Jersey and Delaware really don't count.

I tried to dimension it for my Spanish opponent recently.

Minnesota is 86,943 sq miles.

Spain is 195,364 sq. miles.

Minnesota is not a particularly large state. Twelfth.

Alaska is 663,267 sq. miles.

Alaska just edges out Manitoba at 649,947 square miles. Of course if you deduct the area of our 80,000 lakes we have a lot less living space!

[Encircled]

Yet, when they finished their route and arrived back at their hotel, it wasn't yet noon.

If they try that on a lovely day, it will take all day!

Live less than an hour away from the Lakes, and when we go there, we go early, or you can't park and get stuck in massive traffic jams. Well worth it though!

[AcePylut]

If i drive from my home in Columbia, SC, to my parents in North Central Illinois, I can do it alone in 12 hours. [:)] If I take my wife and 2 kids, it's 20 hours and an overnight stay at a hotel. [:@]

[paullus99]

Had to drive from Nashville to Naples, FL one time...and I thought Georgia was a freakishly long state. Once we hit the Florida state line, we thought we were home free.....then 16 hours later, we arrive.

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: Commander Cody

I'm not going to win this competition. Seoul to Busan (i.e. Keijo to Fusan) is four hours in good traffic, which is admittedly rare. I did my honeymoon in Arizona and Nevada (Phoenix, Grand Canyon and Vegas) in a rental car and the missus, who is Korean, was pretty blown away by the distances and open spaces.

Have a great Memorial Day back there, and remember those who the holiday commemorates.

Cheers,
CC

CC, have you caught the last train to Busan?[:)]

[Bif1961]

I drove from Phenix City, AL to Caseville, MI 1,000 miles in 16 hours, 3 gas and pit stops.

[MakeeLearn]

As a kid, we use to walk through the woods down to the "Old Road" where around 10 old cars and trucks had been left. We would each pick a vehicle get in it and drive all over the world.

[Bif1961]

Good gas mileage that way.

[MakeeLearn]

ORIGINAL: Bif1961

Good gas mileage that way.

And still be home before dark.... most times.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn

ORIGINAL: Bif1961

Good gas mileage that way.

And still be home before dark.... most times.

And when not at least they knew where to find you. [:)]

[CaptBeefheart]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

ORIGINAL: Commander Cody

I'm not going to win this competition. Seoul to Busan (i.e. Keijo to Fusan) is four hours in good traffic, which is admittedly rare. I did my honeymoon in Arizona and Nevada (Phoenix, Grand Canyon and Vegas) in a rental car and the missus, who is Korean, was pretty blown away by the distances and open spaces.

Have a great Memorial Day back there, and remember those who the holiday commemorates.

Cheers,
CC

CC, have you caught the last train to Busan?[:)]

Good one. I have not seen that movie.

Cheers,
CC

[Jellicoe]

I shan't moan quite so much about driving from Kent to Cornwall this summer having read some of the above posts,however the pain of the A303 past Stonehenge has to be experienced to be believed.

Mitigation will be the opportunity to stop off at the fleet Air Arm museum at Yeovil which is always worth a trip. Last time I was there they were building a barracuda using a combination of original spares and replicas as no original airframe still exists.

[Canoerebel]

I have returned! 10.5 hours and 763 miles after leaving Homestead, Florida, I arrived at my house in Georgia exactly at midnight. I'll be here 36 hours before departing for Louisville, Kentucky.

I enjoy driving a lot - especially solo or with my immediate family. Today was solo. That provided lot of opportunity to think - especially since I don't have a cell phone or smart phone to distract or interrupt my train of thought. I don't have XM, but I traveled with about eight music CDs, including a few with my own selection. I listen mostly to 70s/80s classic rock (do the Carpenters really count as rock?), classical, and Christians hymns/praise. Traffic ranged from light to moderate all day, and the weather was good, so it was a relaxing trip.

I'll run the turn tomorrow and then check back in. Y'all have a good night.

[Dirtnap86]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

I have returned! 10.5 hours and 763 miles after leaving Homestead, Florida, I arrived at my house in Georgia exactly at midnight. I'll be here 36 hours before departing for Louisville, Kentucky.

I enjoy driving a lot - especially solo or with my immediate family. Today was solo. That provided lot of opportunity to think - especially since I don't have a cell phone or smart phone to distract or interrupt my train of thought. I don't have XM, but I traveled with about eight music CDs, including a few with my own selection. I listen mostly to 70s/80s classic rock (do the Carpenters really count as rock?), classical, and Christians hymns/praise. Traffic ranged from light to moderate all day, and the weather was good, so it was a relaxing trip.

I'll run the turn tomorrow and then check back in. Y'all have a good night.

Glad you had a good trip. It's about to storm something fierce here, I think it already passed by your neck of the woods.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

I have returned! 10.5 hours and 763 miles after leaving Homestead, Florida, I arrived at my house in Georgia exactly at midnight. I'll be here 36 hours before departing for Louisville, Kentucky.

I enjoy driving a lot - especially solo or with my immediate family. Today was solo. That provided lot of opportunity to think - especially since I don't have a cell phone or smart phone to distract or interrupt my train of thought. I don't have XM, but I traveled with about eight music CDs, including a few with my own selection. I listen mostly to 70s/80s classic rock (do the Carpenters really count as rock?), classical, and Christians hymns/praise. Traffic ranged from light to moderate all day, and the weather was good, so it was a relaxing trip.

I'll run the turn tomorrow and then check back in. Y'all have a good night.

I would count the Carpenters as "Easy Listening" - I could listen to Karen Carpenter's voice all day and feel the mellow. Had a huge crush on her back in the day, before anorexia took her before she really started her life.

[ny59giants]

For girl crushes in 70s it was Heart and Fleetwood Mac.

Watching MTV in mid-80s had me fall in love with this video and black leather.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpNw7jYkbVc

[Canoerebel]

I agree - the Carpenters are "easy listening." Ya can't put them in the same "rock 'n roll" category as, say, Deff Leopard.

But, back in the day, the Carpenters would be played on Rock stations while Easy Listening stations might play Frank and Nancy' Sinatra's "Something Stupid." There was a line dividing the two - perhaps somewhat random but definite.

There was 70s and 80s rock that I couldn't stand - loud, crashing stuff; but so much of what came out in that era had distinct piano and horns and strings - and vocals - that it was quite lovely. Chicago, ELO, Styxx and dozens of others come to mind.

I suppose our parents easily distinguished between Ray Coniff or Frank Sinatra, on the one hand, and Foreigner or the Doobie Brothers on the other. But I can listen to all of that and find them relaxing. Just don't put me in the vicinity of hard, mashing, loud, cacophonous stuff like AC/DC, Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, and the Greatful Dead.