Todd Michel McComb wrote:
> In article ,
> J. Clarke wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Well, there was never any reason for the invective, but I've been
> across the US more than a few times. Maybe the people you cited
> genuinely enjoyed those trips you mentioned. I won't say they
> didn't. At the least, pushing yourself is something you can say
> you did. For me, trying to relax and have a decent time of it,
> sightseeing or no, is just a more enjoyable choice. An inexperienced
> driver, especially, shouldn't be feeling pressure to make time.
Who said anything about "enjoying"? Most people don't enjoy their jobs,
but they still do them 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for decades at a
time, and a lot of those jobs are _far_ more taxing than sitting behind
a steering wheel. If the guy's got 6 days to make the trip he's got 6
days.
That's the other thing I'm seeing, the assumption that he's taking a
vacation. He's going one-way with a fixed time limit and no stated
plans to return. That sounds like he's relocating, not taking a
vacation, and in relocations the schedule isn't always set by the
traveler, and it doesn't matter if it's "fun", only that one gets from
one end to the other in one piece.
Anybody who thinks that back to back 8 hour days in a car make for an
"ambitious" drive and constitutes "pushing" just isn't in touch with the
world of long-haul truckers and taxi drivers and the like.
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