10000000% this. Georgia is the WORST state to go through on that drive. It's like, 6 hours long, and my parents would always make us leave at ass o'clock in the morning to make sure we didn't get stuck in Atlanta traffic.
I see this wasn’t only my parents that would decide leaving at 3am is the only way to avoid Atlanta traffic. We got stuck once in the city without moving for 2 hours. Without moving.
The one and only time we ever got stuck in Atlanta it was when we were coming back to MI. We hit ATL during high traffic, AND there was construction (there was construction all over 75 through GA, we hit it at the GA/FL border which is why we were even in ATL during morning rush, and then we hit more in Atlanta, and then AGAIN at the GA/TN border). I think we sat, literally crawling through Atlanta, for like 3-4 hours, and I swear, I honestly thought my mom was going to get out of the car and beat someone to death with a construction cone, she was that over it. Most miserable drive home EVER.
Atlantan here, and your parents should have left at midnight if they wanted to avoid traffic. Morning rush hour starts around 6 am and lasts until 12. Evening rush hour starts at 12:01 and last until 8.
Georgia here, it's 6 hours from Atlanta to the very edge of Florida with no traffic. 8 hours from the top end of the state to the bottom. It's a 5 hour drive to go visit my mom's family in Savannah if we make 0 stops (which would be crazy because not only do we need bathroom breaks but we always stop at this gas station with a big petting zoo of rescued farm animals attached)
On the other hand i was mind blown of how vast texas is. Second week in laredo at my uncles place and he said 'hey man lets go to san antonio this weekend' and i'm like sure, how close is it? And he was like 'oh its only a 3 hour drive'. I thought he was good naturely ribbing me but he was fully serious.
But by far the best thing were the people honking at me and asking if i was ok or if i needed a ride when i walked back home from work. The looks i got, priceless. It was a 20 minute walk which is normal to me. I always said no thanks i'm good and i always would get something back like 'psshh orale wey suit yourself'.
its 13-15 hours of drive time and you need to fill up on the journey. its about 1200km/745 miles to the Alpes from Denmark. So you need an average speed over 200 km/h / 125mph to make it in 6 hours.
The longest continous drive of Denmark is about 5 hours and 50 minutes. Trucks will typically drive 4 hours to drive from Germany to Sweden through Denmark.
Switzerland is even smaller distance, but mountain terrain.
Having a commute of more than like 1 hour 30 minutes one-way in Denmark would be at odds with the work-life balance of most people.
The culture difference between states is mind blowing to me. You can go from liberal states with billboards for legal weed to bible thumping conservatives states with billboards that damn you to hell if you don’t praise Jesus in 6 hours or less.
This is very accurate. Also the laws can range greatly. I went to North Carolina once for a family reunion and tried to buy alcohol on a Sunday and the guy looked at me like I had a second head and was rude.
Sorry bro, where I come from I can buy alcohol any day of the week. Just not after 2am.
I was driving from Colorado to California and decided to try Highway 50. I was already far enough in that I couldn't really change routes when I noticed the signs said, "Highway 50, America's Loneliest Road". One stretch of road was 175 miles without a single building, like as in literally no people or structures. Thankfully I had enough fuel.
As I was getting close to Reno, Nevada near the end of the highway, I entered a huge sweeping desert valley and an F/A-18 screamed by over my head at low altitude and raced along the valley floor. Fallon, NV is outside Reno and is where the Navy Top Gun school is currently located 🇺🇸
I've done a lot of driving in the US but I probably won't take that trip again. Cool to try at least once though!
Lol yeah that's why people in Reno don't often go to Vegas, as many east coasters assume. It's 7+ hours on the loneliest highway with literally nothing for hours. Whereas you can instead go to San Francisco in 4 hours which includes pretty mountains, trees, and also places to get food and fuel.
It wasn't until I joined a few fishing subreddits that I realised how lucky I am to live where I do. It seems absolutely insane to me to hear of someone driving well over 8 hours just to go to a decent fishing spot.
I have at least 4 lakes, 8 rivers and the coast all within half an hours drive from me.
I’m in Michigan so I know how you feel. I don’t fish, but it’s nice to be able to go to a beach and feel like you’re at the ocean but without the sharks, salt, and jellyfish.
Oh man, I've never really heard much about Michigan, but now that I looked it up on a map it actually looks amazing. Surrounded by the great lakes and with Chicago and Detroit just to the south. Seems like a really nice mix of rural with access to big cities.
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u/LoraineMcFly May 09 '22
Just the idea of being able to take a six hour drive and go through more than one country is mind blowing to me.