sharx35 wrote:
> "J. Clarke" wrote in message
> news:f4gudl01d4c@news2.newsguy.com...
>> 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.
>>
>
> FOAD, asshole. Perhaps Type A personalities like you, like to go, go,
> go. NORMAL people like to ENJOY the sights along the way.
Me, type A? ROF,L.
Did anybody say that this was supposed to be a sightseeing vacation?
The OP certainly didn't.
I'm getting the impression that all the naysayers are people who have
never actually travelled any distance by car, just read about it in a
book.
And you get really pissed off when somebody who has actually done some
of it tells you that your naysaying is bullshit.
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