"J. Clarke" wrote in message
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> sharx35 wrote:
>> "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.
>
> 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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>
I have driven a lot of long trips. And most of the time 50 mph is about
what the average speed is. You have to stop for gas, food and removal of
used food. Only time I averaged over 60 mph for a long trip was from
Biloxi, MS to Oakland, CA. in 1965. Averaged 63.9 mph. And we drove
across Texas at about 100 mph at night. Never got over 110 mph. But that
is a rare trip for high average speed for a long trip. We drive 500 miles
to the kids in SoCal. Even setting the cruise control on 82 mph, you still
get slowed down by traffic. And food stops and filling up before I hit the
LA traffic.
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