I sadly see this all the time unironically. Met a German family who arrived in North Carolina with plans to go to Disney Land. Not World. Land
"Isn't California just on the other side of the country?"
Yeah it is
The way I try to communicate it is to ask them to imagine someone taking a vacation to the whole EU, because America is much closer in scale to that
Their transportation:
I had relatives over from wales visiting my grandmother in canberra. "Come, drive up for the day! "
Bitch i live in melbourne. The drive alone is longer than your entire "kingdom"
Ha, I had to drive 8 hours to get to the nearest airport when some one on site had a personal emergency
Shout out the 1 hour 45 minute drive from JFK to just over the bridge into Jersey
Why not just take the High Speed Rail and get there in 45 minutes instead?
US High Speed Rail:
Hey now, don't knock the Big Boy. He could reach 80mph, that's much faster than most of our rail in the US.
😂😂😂 They're in for a surprise. I can drive 2 hours and still be in my state.
I'd guess you could find a 2 hour straight line in any state without crossing a border, except maybe Rhode Island.
I had a car like that once.
I can drive 8 hours and still be in my shithole state and it's not even Texas.
A 2 hour drive in Miami will get you to…north Miami
And 50$ in tolls lol
We had family visit from the UK many years ago. They said after they visited Niagara Falls, they wanted to "pop over" to Prince Edward Island to see Anne of Green Gables. That is an 18h drive if you don't even stop to pee. They finally realized how big Canada really is when somebody showed them a map of England superimposed on a map of Canada.
I mean, it is also about how much time you have in the vacation and how much it feels like a "once in a lifetime" thing, where you take more hardships to check all the "highlights". Like, when we spend 2 weeks in Australia we drove crazy distances, because I don't know whether I will ever be there again. Same for US tourists in Europe, even in this thread "oh, we did Lissabon, London, Paris, Prague and Zagreb". No European would ever cram that into 4 weeks. But if you have the opportunity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
When backpacking in China we went from Shanghai to the border of Tibet. Crazy distances again, but we wanted to cover snow capped mountains and Shanghai, solely because of "well, while we're at it". I mean, it felt like we already travelled half-way back home, only to come back to Shanghai to take the return trip.
Anyway, TL;DR: I don't think it's underestimating the size, but a FOMO on a "once in a lifetime" vacation.
In America, 100 years is a long time
In Europe, 100 miles is a long distance
Tf is a mile, bruv? Don't come in 'ere with these nonsensical made up freedom units
Had a friend from SE Asia that wanted to visit me in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She found a flight to Canada alright. To VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA. She asked if I could come pick her up if I wasn't too busy.
Lol.
Sure, I'll be there in 3 days, you'll probably want to get some food while you wait.
Or just save being put in an ICE facility and go visit Canada and not be put in an ICE facility.
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Ah, a meme from a simpler time. Now the first thing I think of is how long the stay in Guantanamo Bay will be.
Out of curiosity, I put the route in Google Maps to see how long each leg would take. 20 hrs., 37 hrs., 5 hrs.
My brother went to college in upstate NY in the 80’s and made friends with a girl who was born & raised in Manhattan. One weekend, in all seriousness, she suggested taking the subway to the Grand Canyon.
Haha yes!
I remember travelling to family in Canada and asking if we could go to Disneyland. In Florida.
Disney Land is in California.
World is in Florida
When I was in college at Eastern New Mexico, which is about 45 minutes west of Amarillo Texas, a couple friends, both from New England, had the bright idea of driving down to the gulf over a 4 day weekend.
I cautioned them against the idea, trying to explain Texas was bigger than they could imagine. Three hours into the trip we got a motel room in some hole in the wall town and went back to school the next morning.
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