Hatunen wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:00:00 -0400, "J. Clarke"
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Way back in my thirties I'd have jumped at a chance to do a long
> road trip, and I've driven straight through over distances like
> Tucson to DC, stopping only for fast food drive-ups and the
> occasional quick nap in a roadside rest area. But there comes an
> age when it gets a bit much. Back then I enjouyed the ologn
> drives, now I don't.
One doesn't have to drive straight through stopping only for fast food
drive-ups and the occasional quick nap in a roadside rest area to drive
2500 miles in 6 days. Geez.
>> 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.
>
> Long haul truckers are restricted by law to a certain a specified
> maximum of driving hours per day, and usually carry a partner to
> trade off with. Also, today the long haul tractors have rather
> comfy bunks for the non-driving partner.
10 hours on and 8 off, not the 8:20 on and 15:40 off that the 6 day trip
at 50 mph would require. A trucker following the rules exactly would do
the trip in well under 4 days.
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