Calif Bill wrote:
> "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.
And if you end up managing 50 mph then you drive 8 hours and 20 minutes
a day instead of just 8 hours. Big deal.
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