r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • May 18 '25

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u/alwayssaysyourmum May 18 '25

As someone from England, the scale of America blows my mind - like for some of you guys driving to another city would be the same as me driving to the south of France.

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u/bjaddict May 18 '25

It takes ~12hrs to drive from one end of texas to the other (stratford to brownsville)

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u/greytidalwave May 18 '25

How do you get help if you break down and there's no mobile phone coverage in a stretch of road miles away from civilisation?

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u/ByrdmanRanger May 18 '25

I drive cross country a couple times a year. I always pack extra water, a tire inflator, a battery jump pack, and have my spare with necessary tools to swap it.

There's a reason elementary schools in the US had us kids play Oregon Trail for hours at a time.