"J. Clarke" wrote in message
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> sharx35 wrote:
>> "J. Clarke" wrote in message
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>>> 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.
>
FOAD, asshole. Perhaps Type A personalities like you, like to go, go, go.
NORMAL people like to ENJOY the sights along the way.
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