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Safety Dance posted:If they're coming from Ireland, it will seem perfectly reasonable. Rural Irish drive like they're taking part in a rally stage... Single-track roads, no people and distance to get absolutely anywhere has inspired a devil may care attitude to road safety. loving terrifying. 
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I would suggest getting the most fuel efficient but more importantly, comfortable car if you plan on doing any sort of long distance driving in the US instead of a bike anyway. Depending on where you're going you might be in that car for 6 hours without anything more than a porta-potty at a roadworks spot in the middle of North Dakota, so you're going to want to make sure you have lots of food and entertainment plus piss bottles for the kids in the back. Also a change of underwear for your 5yo niece who is too afraid to pop a squat on the side of the road even though there hasn't been another car for the past 40 minutes. Although to be fair that was a lil sketchy to me too, how the gently caress are you gonna drive for almost an hour and not see a single other car?
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May 25, 2022 08:55
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My sons and I did 6200+ miles across 15 or so states last year and we didn’t even make it to the west coast - we took 80 west and then went south after Yellowstone. I’ve done a 9000 mile road trip in the US and only managed 21 states. In October we did Tail of the Dragon which was 1900 miles round trip, in essentially a long weekend. Next time I think we will go south to TN and take 40 west. I know there are big stretches of nothing there but it will at least be new. So yeah. USA BIG.
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May 25, 2022 11:30
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There's a incredible irony here somewhere that I have never ever been told "yes" in the US when asking if something is within walking distance, when 9 out of 10 times it turned out to be easily walkable.
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May 25, 2022 13:43
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I used to walk to where I had to hand in a rent check for my first apartment in the US because electronic funds transfers were clearly too futuristic for the company that owned the building. It was about 2 miles each way and people would react as if I was running a marathon to pay the rent every month.
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May 25, 2022 13:50
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Nidhg00670000 posted:There's a incredible irony here somewhere that I have never ever been told "yes" in the US when asking if something is within walking distance, when 9 out of 10 times it turned out to be easily walkable. People drive to the mailbox at the end of their driveway dude.
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May 25, 2022 14:07
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insta posted:People drive to the mailbox at the end of their driveway dude. I've seen rural places where the mailboxes are in clusters a mile or more from the houses they're for, so Americans driving to their mailbox isn't always because of laziness.
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May 25, 2022 14:25
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Large Testicles posted:You could do something like it, but the whole length would suck on a bike unless you're gonna take like a month to do it. I'd suggest going out west to like Colarado/Utah/Wyoming and renting one for a few day ride or something like that. Stop off and camp somewhere if that's something you're into. Shitload less traffic and much better scenery than the big coastal cities. That sounds like a lovely trip. Start somewhere just east of the Rockies like Denver and go through Colorado Utah Nevada and end up in SF or LA.
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May 25, 2022 15:18
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insta posted:People drive to the mailbox at the end of their driveway dude. I live in a pretty small neighborhood, without fail every afternoon there will be a row of SUVs idling for half an hour waiting for the school bus to drop their kids off, so they can drive them home. No single house in the entire neighborhood is more than 1/4 mile from the bus stop. It's absurd. Like maybe in the dead of winter sure but this goes on year round.
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May 25, 2022 15:42
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My street has community mailboxes. Like 9 houses in one unit. It's directly across from my driveway so I just walk but I see quite a few of my neighbors drive to it. And not always on the way to/from work or another place.
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May 25, 2022 16:00
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opengl128 posted:I live in a pretty small neighborhood, without fail every afternoon there will be a row of SUVs idling for half an hour waiting for the school bus to drop their kids off, so they can drive them home. No single house in the entire neighborhood is more than 1/4 mile from the bus stop. It's absurd. It is not unusual for schools to not allow kids to walk to or home from school. Not saying that’s the case there but it’s a thing.
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May 25, 2022 16:00
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Phanatic posted:It is not unusual for schools to not allow kids to walk to or home from school. The issue is the parents not walking to get their kids. Im really close to my kids school and i see it here too.
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May 25, 2022 16:13
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Soon you'll need to pick your kids up in an APC, them running from cover to cover with their heads down making for the hatch while you lay down suppressing fire and call in support from circling gunships. I'm only barely joking. 
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May 25, 2022 16:39
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When I was growing up in super rural Northern Wisconsin, I had a two-mile walk down the dirt road to our house to get to the county road, then a sixteen-mile ride on the school bus to elementary school and junior high. Oneida County was pretty empty in the 60s and early 70s.
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May 25, 2022 17:27
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Phanatic posted:It is not unusual for schools to not allow kids to walk to or home from school. I'm talking about the (very short) walk from the bus stop to their house.
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May 25, 2022 18:03
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BigPaddy posted:I used to walk to where I had to hand in a rent check for my first apartment in the US because electronic funds transfers were clearly too futuristic for the company that owned the building. It was about 2 miles each way and people would react as if I was running a marathon to pay the rent every month.
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May 25, 2022 18:34
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Haifisch posted:I used to live a 10 minute walk from work in an area that has sidewalks(which isn't a given around here - where I live now, there's stuff that would be in walking distance except for the part where I'd be gambling on not getting murdered by cars going 50mph with no sidewalks to seperate us & no pedestrian signals for crossing said 50mph traffic) and some people acted like I was ultra brave for walking home at night. In the suburbs. I have no idea what they thought was going to happen. You might catch a chill!
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May 25, 2022 18:40
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Imperador do Brasil posted:My sons and I did 6200+ miles across 15 or so states last year and we didn’t even make it to the west coast - we took 80 west and then went south after Yellowstone. I’ve done a 9000 mile road trip in the US and only managed 21 states. 40 once you hit Texas is boring as gently caress but there's some cool views and stops before that. The only interesting stop in Texas is the steakhouse where you can try to do the 3lb steak eating challenge.
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May 25, 2022 19:30
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There is Cadillac Ranch outside Amarillo. Will be taking that route from Phoenix to Memphis in a few weeks to do power tour and I remember how dull it was doing it the other way last year coming from NH.
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May 25, 2022 19:51
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carry on then posted:Here in SE Minnesota there seems to be an unwritten rule about how to use a freeway onramp (straight ramps, not cloverleaf): That happens up here in NW Minnesota too. Drives me bonkers.
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May 25, 2022 22:04
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opengl128 posted:I live in a pretty small neighborhood, without fail every afternoon there will be a row of SUVs idling for half an hour waiting for the school bus to drop their kids off, so they can drive them home. No single house in the entire neighborhood is more than 1/4 mile from the bus stop. It's absurd. In the previous apartment I lived in, people would drive to the entrance and wait there for the bus to drop off their kids.
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May 25, 2022 23:16
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Large Testicles posted:40 once you hit Texas is boring as gently caress but there's some cool views and stops before that. The only interesting stop in Texas is the steakhouse where you can try to do the 3lb steak eating challenge. All of Texas is pretty poo poo if you're just driving through, but in my opinion OK is even worse. I'll say I kinda liked the 4 or 5 days I was in San Antonio for a trade show, probably 15 years ago or so. I live in MA and have done cross country a few times, one of which started in Northern Cali and I actually got to see a sign, Begin I-80. It's kind of demoralizing when you know you basically have to drive the whole length of it to get home. Going west from here it's like semi-interesting, except like I-80 in PA, until you hit Chicago and then after that you're in bore town. It's proof the Earth isn't flat because you can't actually see the Rockies from Chicago because there is nothing tall enough in the way to obscure the view. Oh and for America is big as poo poo talk, I've done the southern routes across as well and if you go I-20 or I-10 you can literally wake up in Texas, drive for 10 hours, stopping only for food and fuel, and still be in Texas.
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bigbillystyle posted:Oh and for America is big as poo poo talk, I've done the southern routes across as well and if you go I-20 or I-10 you can literally wake up in Texas, drive for 10 hours, stopping only for food and fuel, and still be in Texas. I drove a move from Southern California to New England. Day 1 was east of San Diego CA to Las Cruces NM (just short of El Paso) in ~10 hours. The second day was 10 hours just to get to Dallas. At least I didn't make the mistake I made when moving to California where I stopped a day 5 hours west of Dallas metro and was only in Big Spring Texas. My stay at a La Quinta cost me $219 a nice because it was so much in the middle of nowhere.
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bigbillystyle posted:Oh and for America is big as poo poo talk, I've done the southern routes across as well and if you go I-20 or I-10 you can literally wake up in Texas, drive for 10 hours, stopping only for food and fuel, and still be in Texas. My favorite Texas metric is that you can drive from Marshall, Texas (which is on the East side near Louisiana) to El Paso, Texas. Then, when you get to El Paso, you're closer to Los Angeles than you are to Marshall, Texas.
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bigbillystyle posted:if you go I-20 or I-10 you can literally wake up in Texas, drive for 10 hours, stopping only for food and fuel, and still be in Texas. I live in Mass as well and I've owned cars like that before.
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meatpimp posted:My favorite Texas metric is that you can drive from Marshall, Texas (which is on the East side near Louisiana) to El Paso, Texas. Then, when you get to El Paso, you're closer to Los Angeles than you are to Marshall, Texas. Bristol, TN is closer to Windsor, ON (397 miles) than Memphis, TN (446 miles).
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Driving from New York to Detroit is faster than driving Detroit to the northern tip of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
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Zero One posted:Driving from New York to Detroit is faster than driving Detroit to the northern tip of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. But in fairness Wisconsin should have invaded and annexed that poo poo a long time ago.
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May 26, 2022 01:20
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I’ve done the Kilgore, Tx to Las Cruces trip a few times. Yeah, it’s pretty long.
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bigbillystyle posted:Oh and for America is big as poo poo talk, I've done the southern routes across as well and if you go I-20 or I-10 you can literally wake up in Texas, drive for 10 hours, stopping only for food and fuel, and still be in Texas. That sounds like a nightmare
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Phanatic posted:But in fairness Wisconsin should have invaded and annexed that poo poo a long time ago. You think we want Iron Mountain? Are you insane?
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May 26, 2022 02:18
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Someday all the Midwest will be Greater Michigan.
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Phanatic posted:But in fairness Wisconsin should have invaded and annexed that poo poo a long time ago. Hey, we won it fair and square in our war with Ohio!
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mobby_6kl posted:That sounds like a nightmare While I was driving across west Texas on I-20, I was passing a car and saw the tread separate from one of their tires. Had to just keep driving. So much tire debris that you just have to deal with avoiding.
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Deteriorata posted:Bristol, TN is closer to Windsor, ON (397 miles) than Memphis, TN (446 miles). I live near Bristol, and a few months ago there were a couple of out of town industrial workers at my local watering hole. One of them asked if we were near Memphis and the whole drat bar started laughing. TN borders 8 states with 3 others pretty close. It doesn’t have much girth but it does have some length. empty baggie fucked around with this message at 05:04 on May 26, 2022 |
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May 26, 2022 03:59
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And if you live in Trelleborg, Swedens southernmost city, you live closer to Rome, Italy, than Swedens northernmost town, Karesuando.
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Salami Surgeon posted:In the previous apartment I lived in, people would drive to the entrance and wait there for the bus to drop off their kids. That poo poo drove me insane. You basically couldn't enter or leave my complex anywhere near bus time because the parents would block the exit and then do u-turns into the entrance. I could squeak by with a bike before the kids were dropped off, but there was too much of a risk of getting hit until they completely cleared out once the kids were around. All those folks trying to protect their kids were literally causing the risk!
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I had someone at a gas station pull forward to the hood of my car while I was pumping gas, making me have to reverse to leave. Thats lovely. If a station is busy and you have to wait drive your car around until you're facing the same direction as the person in front of you. 
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May 26, 2022 12:37
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Cage posted:I had someone at a gas station pull forward to the hood of my car while I was pumping gas, making me have to reverse to leave. Its not me, thats lovely right? If a station is busy and you have to wait drive your car around until you're facing the same direction as the person in front of you. I don't really consider a normal gas station to be directional since you can generally enter from multiple sides. Maybe a highway rest stop where literally all traffic is coming from the same entrance and leaving through the same exit, but IMO a normal city gas station is just a series of parking spaces wrapped around islands. Being able to pull through is common but not a guarantee. Also was there another space the person could have gone to where they wouldn't have been "in the way" or are you saying they should have waited to fuel up until you were done just to let you pull through?
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I saw someone trying to enter a Costco gas station from the exit one time and get into an argument with the attendants. So nothing is off the table when it comes to human shittiness.
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