I met someone from Kansas and they talked about how it wasn't so bad and that they still can vacation to see cool places.
Then they talked about their 12 hour road trips to Wisconsin and Southern Texas and it made me feel kinda sad for them!
Road trips beat commercial flights though imo
There is a certain minimum threshold before bothering to take a flight becomes viable, and that's if your flight is about 3 hours long or more. Otherwise you may as well drive if you can, because the amount of time you spend getting to the airport, getting fondled by the TSA, checking in, waiting to board, standing around in lines, waiting for your bags to show up, renting a car at your destination, etc. all adds up to be the same as just driving. It's not actually any faster to fly when it still takes all damn day.
And then you can bring all your knives or weed or liquid bottles more than two ounces or whatever it is you're into without getting thrown into Gitmo and when you arrive you already have your car (or motorcycle).
Hard disagree, driving from Bilbao to Seville is like 8 hours, the flight is below 2. Accounting for airports and commutes, the plane method is still about 4h, that's half the time and you can sleep.
I need to travel from the east coast to Denver and the only reason I’m flying is because work wouldn’t let me file a mileage expense for a couple thousand dollars.
If it takes 4 hours to drive, I rather take a plane
After 12 hours of driving a car you're exhausted and could've gotten in an accident
If the plane tickets were cheap enough, I wouldn't even think twice.
Everything is driving distance and simultaneously, America is "too big" for high speed rail
High speed rail would make such a difference. If you tried to make the same trip as pictured with Amtrak, you'd probably be looking at double the travel time at least.
25 hours from what I can tell. And you can't take the full trip with Amtrak or at least they don't give an itinerary for it. You have to take a bus somewhere to hit the train.
And due to how Amtrak's scheduling works (because freight rail is prioritized over everyone else), you're likely getting that train at a bad time days before the game. If I wanted to catch a train from my home to Chicago, my only option is Thursday at 4AM. Outside the Northeast, you're lucky to get one passenger train a week from your major metro, if at all.
Then people see this and go "see no one uses the train so why should my tax dollars go to fund it"
Imagine if we let drivers have 1 day per week to use the highway, suddenly they might not think their taxs are worth it for the service they are getting.
I once drove that long to get to a convention.
Never. Again.
Just because you can drive for 12+ hours, doesn't mean you should. Next time I'm either planning two full days for that sort of driving, or taking a plane.
Midwesterners don't just drive 12 hours for a weekend trip. 8 hours is the max for that
"Possibility," in that you can get from one to the other before the next game starts, and even sleep a bit, sure.
"Legitimate," I dunno. Assuming the series goes to seven games, that is almost 3,000 miles to put on your car in a month. There's nothing "legitimate" about that.
Are these the same people that defined "nearby" for linkedin? Because I keep getting emails about openings "nearby". The daily commute may be 8hrs, but that's nearby, apparently
If you say you're willing to relocate it basically starts giving you job listings on the opposite side of the planet. Usually in a country where the national language doesn't even use the same alphabet.
Well there aren't any flights.
I can confirm I'm from Missouri. Though to be fair where I live the closest major city is more than a hour drive away. Excessive driving is just an unfortunate part of life in the Midwest shit hole.
The Midwest is so flat, it's basically gagging for some tracks all over it.
I imagine the main concern was if there's enough population to use it effectively but that's surely not an issue now.
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