sharx35 wrote:
> "J. Clarke" wrote in message
> news:f4g0ho0eb9@news2.newsguy.com...
>> JamesStep@gmail.com wrote:
>>>> Say you drive 13 hours - that's about 68 miles per
>>>> hour average. Extremely ambitious.
>>>
>>> Ambitious indeed, especially when you factor in stops for food, gas,
>>> rest rooms, and delays due to accidents, construction, etc.
>>>
>>> AAA suggests that 50 miles per hour of driving is a realistic
>>> average on long trips when you factor in the things mentioned above.
>>
>> This is ridiculous.
>>
>> Cannonball Baker drove a loaded 2 ton truck from NYC to Los Angeles,
>> a longer distance, on much, much worse roads, in 5 days, 17 hours,
>> and 30 minutes in _1926_, and that wasn't even his fastest run. The
>> current record is 32 hours, 51 minutes.
>>
>> There is a motorcycle club called the "Iron Butt Association", the
>> qualification for joining which is that one has ridden a motorcycle
>> 1000 miles in 24 hours. Numerous members of that club have ridden
>> across the US in 50 hours or less, from Halifax to Vancouver in 90
>> or less, and visited all of the "lower 48" states in 10 days. Some
>> have ridden across the US and _back_ in under 100 hours.
>>
>> Hell, my mother drove from Norfolk to San Diego or vice versa in less
>> than a week several times in the early '60s, and that included time
>> out to see a few tourist attractions.
>>
>> Driving 2500 miles in a car on four lane controlled-access highways
>> in six days just plain isn't any kind of big deal.
>
> Still an endurance contest. SOME of us like driving one day, then
> taking the next day off from driving.
For a lot of people, driving a car or truck or bus 8 hours a day for 5
days is just a typical week on the job, hardly an "endurance contest".
And a lot of those people are dealing with city traffic the _whole_
time, not just passing through on an Interstate.
Now it may be that driving is so exhausting for _you_ that you need a
full day's rest after 8 hours on the road, but that makes you atypical.
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