ooli3@sopuli.xyz to Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz · 1 day agoHow far can you get in 8 hours of driving starting from 5 European capitalsi.redd.itimagemessage-square84linkfedilinkarrow-up1285arrow-down110
arrow-up1275arrow-down1imageHow far can you get in 8 hours of driving starting from 5 European capitalsi.redd.itooli3@sopuli.xyz to Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz · 1 day agomessage-square84linkfedilink
minus-squareyetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 day agoLisbon to Helsinki takes 47 hours of driving btw. And you haven’t even reached far North yet, there’s still 1000+ km of Finland remaining.
minus-squareNoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 day agoYeah but nobody would even consider driving from Lisbon to Helsinki if the goal is just to get from A to B; you’d make that trip by plane.
minus-squareyetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 day agoYup, but hardly anyone in the US decides to do Atlantic to Pacific road trips either.
minus-squareTropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down2·1 day agoPlenty of people in the US do this.
minus-squareEntheoNaut@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-214 hours agoAs a teenager/college student to have the experience, yes. And then there’s families who do this, again for the experience. It’s an American Rite of Passage without question. But on the regular, LA to NY, ya gonna fly.
minus-squareantianarchist@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 day agoOnly because gas was probably cheaper than water, but that changed recently.
minus-squareTropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoYep. And because people in the US have a weird sense that their time has no value.
Lisbon to Helsinki takes 47 hours of driving btw.
And you haven’t even reached far North yet, there’s still 1000+ km of Finland remaining.
Yeah but nobody would even consider driving from Lisbon to Helsinki if the goal is just to get from A to B; you’d make that trip by plane.
Yup, but hardly anyone in the US decides to do Atlantic to Pacific road trips either.
Plenty of people in the US do this.
As a teenager/college student to have the experience, yes.
And then there’s families who do this, again for the experience. It’s an American Rite of Passage without question.
But on the regular, LA to NY, ya gonna fly.
Only because gas was probably cheaper than water, but that changed recently.
Yep. And because people in the US have a weird sense that their time has no value.