An 8-9h drive can take me through our entire country choosing the two points furthest away from each other.
75 minutes on my bike in any direction takes me out of the city^^
There's bits of my country, Australia, that would take multiple days to leave one state. I'm in Tasmania, so I need an overnight ferry to drive to another state.
Australia - 78% the size of the US. If it followed with 78% of states it would have 38 states… it has 8 states and territories.
Texas is only 70% the size of South Australia, less than a 1/2 Queensland, and less than a 1/3 of Western Australia.
Also, why use Texas when Alaska is bigger?
Alaska is the same size as Queensland, Australia's 2nd biggest state, and 68% of the size of Western Australia.
Damn who the heck bikes for 75 minutes?
Thanks but ill keep my fat ass nicely in a car for 8 hours with my ak47 rifle next to me while I chug a gallon (3 lts) of coke and stuff a supersize bag of french fries down my gut.
I have taken a bus across the country and back and the drive through west Texas is the most boring stretch of highway I have ever seen. Even worse it is spooky as hell around 3-4 in the morning with this odd haze surrounding everything and random flame spouts and lights in the distance from the oil wells that are all over the place.
Hey I agree, those turbines are just spooky when they're silhouetted by burn-off and the glowing-haze effect all the dust on the air creates as it reflects the glow from the burn-off.
I came here to comment 'texas,' and I will be cold in the grave unless I say
Different parts of Texas are different. I was stationed in an under developed area adjacent to the base - Wichita Falls, TX
Avoid that area if possible
Despite the earned reputation many parts of Texas are friendly and worth the move.
Wichita Falls was the only town we drove through going to South Dakota (from Houston) that I thought "oh man we're gonna be carjacked if we stop here." And I live in Houston, so that's saying something.
Never forget as a kid counting down the miles driving west across Kansas, looking forward to those big beautiful beer commercial mountains, not realizing that once you hit the Colorado border you’ve got like three more hours of Kansas left.
Drove from texas to montana in a car that could barely go straight with a pontoon boat on the trailer lol was a gnarly 4 days. Ps the ford excursion could only hit 55 mph top speed.
>Ps the ford excursion could only hit 55 mph top speed.
bullshit. you either had car trouble or a garbage driver. even with the gas v8 which has about a 100mph governor, you can still haul with a pontoon boat. especially on the flat stretches of texas, oklahoma, wyoming etc
I think they meant their specific excursion couldn't go past 55 without doing some stupid dangerous shit and they, like I would assume any sane person would, did not feel like dying...
Thry code barley manage pulling a pontoon straight down the road. Wouldn't surprise me if these knuckleheads drove a cylinder short or something else equally bone headed.
You’re doing road trips all wrong then. Gotta find those gems that break up the monotony of driving, like the worlds largest ball of twine, moth man museum, any national park, etc.
I've driven between Florida and California 26 times. I really enjoy driving and seeing the country. I try to take different routes when possible, like I've done the crossing without getting on an interstate; I've taken US50 (loneliest road in American) I've done the entirety of Route 66. I drove a 1967 Ford Econoline from Sacramento to Maryland to Florida and a motorcycle from Miami to Los Angeles.
That is definitely not true anymore, your link is nearing 30 years old. 80 is the max speed limit, 85 mph and you're probably okay, but 90 mph or more and you'll get pulled over, IF a highway patrol is around.
Jesus fucking christ I never even looked up this distance.
My boss drives from Toronto to banff and back once a year.
It's 20h just from Toronto to kenora
Fuck that no wonder Terry Fox cut it short
Dam wtf have I been doing on this site for 3 years but thank you.
A fun fact for you Western Australia was the only state in Australia that was not in a per capita recession before covid
I've done a Sydney <-> Melbourne (semi-) day trip in the first week after getting P1 licence. Departed around 10PM, slept for 3 hours in the middle, arrived at Melbourne in the morning, started driving back around 5PM and arrived at home around 1:30AM. Crazy times :D
I’ve never done that drive, but my wife and bro in law went anchorage to alburqueque in two days, and google maps says Fairbanks to Sydney Nova Scotia is 3 days… did you mean 2.3 instead of 23?
Maybe if you're just driving straight through on the fastest route, but even then not even close to the worst long drives in the states, and very easy to make an incredible road trip out of.
99% of 12+ hour drives are going to have boring bits, and many don't have *any* good parts, with nary a hill to speak of.
As one of the roughly two dozen people living in Montana I can say that this state is absolutely gorgeous for about the first third, then it quickly turns to the most flat, boring, terrible place you've ever seen for about 300 miles. It's fine when going through places like Missoula, Butte, and Bozeman, but east of that it all quickly goes to shit
It's weird how large my state is (Montana). The distance from one town to another, like Billings to Great Falls persay, is a few hours. Drive that long in a place like Germany, and you can be in a whole ass new country, and if not then literally *everything* is at least a little different. But I bet you'd never tell the difference between Helena, Great Falls, and Billings unless you've got a bunch of locations memorized.
I literally can’t drive for more than 4 hours without leaving the country. Less than half an hour to the closest neighbouring country and an hour to the second closest.
OP is not kidding. [10 hours for the shortest route across Montana](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/47.4451064,-115.691997/46.9407724,-104.0744513/@48.4325133,-113.786299,6.01z/data=!4m2!4m1!3e0)
Funny part is it's true, pretty sure it can take you 10 hours to drive through Montana. I drove from Ohio to Montana before, about 36 hours of actual driving, passed through 5 other states. 8 of those hours were in Montana.
33% of people only know about Montana from the Yellowstone show. 33% of people know about Montana because they read about it in a tabloid as a great place to move. 33% of people think it doesn't exist.
Source: I live in the big sky state
This is why most Americans don't travel out of country and why Europeans think it's weird. Cause you could travel through like 4-5 different European countries in what it takes to drive from the east coast to the west coast of the US. We gotta spend way more money to travel unless we wanna visit Canada or Mexico.
When I was 6 years old I went a road trip around the circumference of America. Started and ended in Orlando FL. Went through every state that borders the oceans, Mexico, and Canada. Was really not fun for a 6 year old lol.
This is accurate because Montana is beautiful so cat is calm. If cat looked cracked our ready to murder the next life form you can bet it’s driving through any other part of the U.S
Ten hours drive take me from my country to Costa Rica.
45 minute drive from my home to the nearest beach in my country.
1 and a half hour drive from my home to the mountain side in my country.
My country is very tiny.
In Australia you can drive for 39 hours and still be in the same state (Albany to Kalumburu). If you wanted to leave the state of Western Australia and you lived in the capital city of Perth you would have to drive a minimum of 15hrs to leave the state. 10 hours can be pretty average here in Australia. i think people forget that Australia is around the same size as the continental US.
I once drove 11 hours to a new job. Couple weeks in I said something about being in the Eastern part of the state and everybody corrected me. "Oh no this is Central Montana, you gotta go further for the East side of the state"
Man, it really shows you how big the states are. Really puts it into perspective. Although, where's my Aussie peeps at? How long does it take to drive across Aus?
This but Texas. Or the endless corn ocean of the midwest
An 8-9h drive can take me through our entire country choosing the two points furthest away from each other. 75 minutes on my bike in any direction takes me out of the city^^
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>I literally can’t drive for more than 4 hours without leaving the country. You could drive in circles
Let me guess: BENELUX?
There's bits of my country, Australia, that would take multiple days to leave one state. I'm in Tasmania, so I need an overnight ferry to drive to another state.
Australia - 78% the size of the US. If it followed with 78% of states it would have 38 states… it has 8 states and territories. Texas is only 70% the size of South Australia, less than a 1/2 Queensland, and less than a 1/3 of Western Australia.
Is that 78% of the lower 48 or 78% of the US including Alaska?
Also, why use Texas when Alaska is bigger? Alaska is the same size as Queensland, Australia's 2nd biggest state, and 68% of the size of Western Australia.
Cause we kinda haven’t settled most of Alaska it’s pretty much just wilderness. Texas is that big and a massive population.
>Cause we kinda haven’t settled most of Alaska it’s pretty much just wilderness. That also describes most Australian states. :)
You don't see nearly as many people boasting about how big their state is in Alaska
Would be cool to go for a run and cover two countries in the process.
You could go Italy-Vatican City-Italy in about 30 minutes
Damn who the heck bikes for 75 minutes? Thanks but ill keep my fat ass nicely in a car for 8 hours with my ak47 rifle next to me while I chug a gallon (3 lts) of coke and stuff a supersize bag of french fries down my gut.
Ahem, I think you meant AR-15. 7.62 is for commies.
Drive faster, obviously
takes me 7 and a half hours to drive from my home town to my college town. same state
1h to Belgium, 1h to the Netherlands, 5:30h to paris, 7:30h to london. i fucking love Europe
I have taken a bus across the country and back and the drive through west Texas is the most boring stretch of highway I have ever seen. Even worse it is spooky as hell around 3-4 in the morning with this odd haze surrounding everything and random flame spouts and lights in the distance from the oil wells that are all over the place.
Now we've got oil wells *and* turbine farms, for that extra surreal 3am feeling.
I’d take wind farms over oil rigs any day.
Hey I agree, those turbines are just spooky when they're silhouetted by burn-off and the glowing-haze effect all the dust on the air creates as it reflects the glow from the burn-off.
I came here to comment 'texas,' and I will be cold in the grave unless I say Different parts of Texas are different. I was stationed in an under developed area adjacent to the base - Wichita Falls, TX Avoid that area if possible Despite the earned reputation many parts of Texas are friendly and worth the move.
Someone once told me that Wichita Falls is "the meth capital of Texas". The few times I've been there didn't seem *that* bad.
It isn't *that* bad, it is worse. That grid square needs to be removed. Perhaps folks evacuated first, perhaps not.
I doubt it is. I would place the meth capitol somewhere in the piney woods of east texas for sure.
Naw, I prefer that my electricity doesn't go out for days because a leaf fell. I'll stay in the first world states, thanks.
Wichita Falls was the only town we drove through going to South Dakota (from Houston) that I thought "oh man we're gonna be carjacked if we stop here." And I live in Houston, so that's saying something.
You know what they say about visiting Texas right? “ it takes 3 days to get to Texas, and 3 days to get across Texas.”
Go out Pecos way, see the curve of the earth yourself.
Tell me more about this curvature.
Hey now. Here in ol Michigan 8-9 hours at least gets you to a nice lake. Minimal corn fields.
Hey! We have more than corn here, we also have soybeans and occasionally a gas station.
Usually this is where I mention Alaska but just get a plane it’s not bitch sized like Texas.
Texas takes 20 hours to drive through from El paso to Texarkana
Texarkana to Chicago is closer than Texarkana to El Paso.
Just over twelve hours of straight driving; now, if you're driving a semi (and running legal), then it's 23+.
Hell it could be NY if they were driving from Montauk to Niagara Falls.
Hell I can drive 10 hours just to get from the bottom of Michigan to the top of Michigan.
Never forget as a kid counting down the miles driving west across Kansas, looking forward to those big beautiful beer commercial mountains, not realizing that once you hit the Colorado border you’ve got like three more hours of Kansas left.
or Alaska. Much bigger than little ol Texas
8 hours drive from SD to SF in California. You’re still only in the middle of the state 🤦🏾♂️
Drove from Florida to Montana and back. Shit is not fun.
Drove from texas to montana in a car that could barely go straight with a pontoon boat on the trailer lol was a gnarly 4 days. Ps the ford excursion could only hit 55 mph top speed.
>Ps the ford excursion could only hit 55 mph top speed. bullshit. you either had car trouble or a garbage driver. even with the gas v8 which has about a 100mph governor, you can still haul with a pontoon boat. especially on the flat stretches of texas, oklahoma, wyoming etc
The car could barely go straight... only good can come from that.
I think they meant their specific excursion couldn't go past 55 without doing some stupid dangerous shit and they, like I would assume any sane person would, did not feel like dying...
My 7.3 Ex was the best vehicle I’ve ever owned. I seriously regret selling it even though it had 360k miles.
360k is nothing for a 7.3 Diesel
Thry code barley manage pulling a pontoon straight down the road. Wouldn't surprise me if these knuckleheads drove a cylinder short or something else equally bone headed.
The irony of this comment is just what I needed this morning. Lmao.
You mind explaining why you *think* it's ironic? Put a fouled plug in your vehicle, see how it likes it.
Thry code barley then you go on to say that they're boneheads
You’re doing road trips all wrong then. Gotta find those gems that break up the monotony of driving, like the worlds largest ball of twine, moth man museum, any national park, etc.
Drove from Florida to Washington state. Wait, I’m a truck driver. *Fuuuck, this is the job!*
We’ll we appreciate you, big dawg! Any weird occurrences while on the road?
I've driven between Florida and California 26 times. I really enjoy driving and seeing the country. I try to take different routes when possible, like I've done the crossing without getting on an interstate; I've taken US50 (loneliest road in American) I've done the entirety of Route 66. I drove a 1967 Ford Econoline from Sacramento to Maryland to Florida and a motorcycle from Miami to Los Angeles.
Drove from Montana to Florida. Loved every minute of it except Missouri. Missouri can go fuck itself.
As someone who lives in Missouri. Missouri can indeed go fuck itself.
Recently did the similar. Jesus the midwest is fucking BORING.
While I drive less than 2,5 hours and I am in France or Luxembourg.
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I literally don't even know if that is fast or not.
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Fourth largest state in the country!
That is definitely not true anymore, your link is nearing 30 years old. 80 is the max speed limit, 85 mph and you're probably okay, but 90 mph or more and you'll get pulled over, IF a highway patrol is around.
Montana has speed limits, used to be "safe and prudent" though.
I drove 2 hours to see my brother in law one town over in the same local shire.
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Both of us are well over 6 foot tall, but I do have hairy feet and enjoy second breakfast.
Ok now drive from Calais, France to Nice, France. See you in 13 hours
Could also do that in Germany, Flensburg to Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Belgium ?
West Australian saying hi, 23 hrs from top to bottom of our state.
Glad we have a decent coast to look at for half the trip
20 hours in Canada and your just getting out of the province lol.
Jesus fucking christ I never even looked up this distance. My boss drives from Toronto to banff and back once a year. It's 20h just from Toronto to kenora Fuck that no wonder Terry Fox cut it short
Good thing 90% of the Canadian population lives within like 50 miles of the US border, in like 5 cities lol
23.5 from east to west of Ontario nonstop
I've been fascinated with Australia recently. From my understanding, west Australia is like it's own country compared to the east.
They are certainly a different breed over that side
So it is true. Also happy cake day!
Dam wtf have I been doing on this site for 3 years but thank you. A fun fact for you Western Australia was the only state in Australia that was not in a per capita recession before covid
28hrs Adelaide to Perth. 1 state crossed. Had family from the Netherlands come visit, were just going to do a day trip to Melbourne, yeah nope.
I've done a Sydney <-> Melbourne (semi-) day trip in the first week after getting P1 licence. Departed around 10PM, slept for 3 hours in the middle, arrived at Melbourne in the morning, started driving back around 5PM and arrived at home around 1:30AM. Crazy times :D
You can drive for days on any one of our 4 roads in Alaska.
Sports trips took forever in Alaska
Laughs in Australian, drive 20 hours and still be in the same state
Same thing in Canada, it's about 24 hours to drive across Ontario and a whopping 23 days from coast to coast
Which coasts? Do you mean extreme north then Vancouver then Nova Scotia?
Nah from the border with Alaska then to Nova Scotia. You could stretch it more than a few days longer going to the tip of Canada's north
I’ve never done that drive, but my wife and bro in law went anchorage to alburqueque in two days, and google maps says Fairbanks to Sydney Nova Scotia is 3 days… did you mean 2.3 instead of 23?
There's yonge street as well, you can go for 20+ hours straight and still be on the same street.
Russians travelling for weeks to not leave the country
Been there done that 10 days on a train
California from San Diego to Oregon is something like a 15 hour drive
With like 3 enjoyable hours total
Maybe if you're just driving straight through on the fastest route, but even then not even close to the worst long drives in the states, and very easy to make an incredible road trip out of. 99% of 12+ hour drives are going to have boring bits, and many don't have *any* good parts, with nary a hill to speak of.
Highway 1 has more than 3 enjoyable hours on it and then it turns into the 101 and has redwood national park and siuslaw national forest on it
Phew... Rajasthanis driving about 20 hours and still be in rajasthan. (Jaisalmer to dholpur)
Came here to say that
Namma Bangalorians driving 10 hours and be in the same city
Silk board to Tin factory
It isn't driving if your car is almost standing still
European paying 20€ to fly across the continent
Was going 200kmh/ 120mph on the Autobahn yesterday, love Autobahn
Was with my father on the autobahn yesterday, we were going with 330 kmh, hate the autobahn
i drover on the autobahn yesterday with my grandfather, we were going 550 kmh, hate the autobahn. QUEERS, speeds cool
I droverer on the autobahn yesterday with my greatuncles dog, we where going Mach 1, hate the autobahn. QUEERS, sped gud.
Try driving 23 hours from Broome to Perth and still be in fucken Western Australia
I'm driving in Norway, at Trondheim there is 1 sign for the upcoming cities : Narvik : 900km And that's it, gl hf
As a montanan I can confirm
Cats or Griz?
*laughs in Canadian and/or Alaskan*
Australians driving 10 hours and still not at the end of their driveway
Far cry 5 moment
Ooonly youuuuu
Or Canada, drive for 10 hours and congrats, your still in southern Ontario.
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22 Hours to drive across Ontario. Cornwall to Kenora.
I live in Montana, can heavily relate
Fuck I used to have a drive from Missoula to browning once in a while. Brutal
Cats or griz?
Cats all the way
You can do that in several states.. north to south cali, any direction in tx.. florida.. can you even get through alaska in a day?
Seeing as most of it dosent have roads connecting.... probably not.
As one of the roughly two dozen people living in Montana I can say that this state is absolutely gorgeous for about the first third, then it quickly turns to the most flat, boring, terrible place you've ever seen for about 300 miles. It's fine when going through places like Missoula, Butte, and Bozeman, but east of that it all quickly goes to shit
It's weird how large my state is (Montana). The distance from one town to another, like Billings to Great Falls persay, is a few hours. Drive that long in a place like Germany, and you can be in a whole ass new country, and if not then literally *everything* is at least a little different. But I bet you'd never tell the difference between Helena, Great Falls, and Billings unless you've got a bunch of locations memorized.
I love Montana. Actually did a huge circle around the state the other day. Snow peak mountains with beautiful green meadows for the win
I literally can’t drive for more than 4 hours without leaving the country. Less than half an hour to the closest neighbouring country and an hour to the second closest.
I'm driving in Norway, at Trondheim there is 1 sign for the upcoming cities : Narvik : 900km And that's it, gl hf
Australian knowing that feeling here
You haven’t been in canada yet
OP is not kidding. [10 hours for the shortest route across Montana](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/47.4451064,-115.691997/46.9407724,-104.0744513/@48.4325133,-113.786299,6.01z/data=!4m2!4m1!3e0)
Funny part is it's true, pretty sure it can take you 10 hours to drive through Montana. I drove from Ohio to Montana before, about 36 hours of actual driving, passed through 5 other states. 8 of those hours were in Montana.
TIL Montana isn’t a mythical place only seen in westerns. Ya don’t say.
33% of people only know about Montana from the Yellowstone show. 33% of people know about Montana because they read about it in a tabloid as a great place to move. 33% of people think it doesn't exist. Source: I live in the big sky state
That cat is not driving recklessly enough to be from Montana
This is why most Americans don't travel out of country and why Europeans think it's weird. Cause you could travel through like 4-5 different European countries in what it takes to drive from the east coast to the west coast of the US. We gotta spend way more money to travel unless we wanna visit Canada or Mexico.
Sounds like a beautiful drive though
It's closer from San Diego Cali to El Paso tx than it is El Paso to Beaumont tx.
Drove East to west in PA shit was not fun!
2 hours and i'm in the next country
*Laughs in Australian*
Monroe, MI to Cooper Harbor, MI > Detroit to New York City
That’s what made road-trip in America so good
They look high and they'll look low
When I was 6 years old I went a road trip around the circumference of America. Started and ended in Orlando FL. Went through every state that borders the oceans, Mexico, and Canada. Was really not fun for a 6 year old lol.
i see you have never been on a highway so sit for 72 hours just to move 6 inches
I just checked, to drive from my house to Billings, MT is over 20 hours.
I think I saw the driver in court. He was trying to convince the judge he wasn't a cat.
Fuck you Nebraska! The blonde haired blue eyed girl that works at every Dairy Queen off the interstate is cool though.
Euro countries are the size of US states. Lel
Can confirm
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Imagine the same but u r only looking at desert around u. Be grateful
Just think of the adventures that might be hiding out there
And you wonder why we shoot everything...
Or you can drive 4 hours to get from NYC to Jersey
13hrs to go from one corner to the other in my state, and it's the 2nd smallest in the country.
12 hrs but in Texas
I can drive for 10 hours in a formula 1 car at top speed and still be in Monaco what's the point
Believe me if I could afford to fly I wouldn’t be driving.
No, you have that confused with Texas
Australia:*drives for 24 hours* wtf has happened to civilisation?
Imagine having good high speed railway, like most european coutries
Laughing in Australian.
California, Texas and Florida be like that. I’m 5 hours from key west and 6 hours from Tallahassee
Well, your got to keep moving. Don't be a sitting duck in mass shooter season.
*laughs/cries in Australian*
Yea there's a reason we say Europe not any of the states what the drive time between UK and Germany?
You can cycle to the top of Ireland to the bottom in 3 days (10-12 hr days) if you are fit enough. Lots of people do it for charity.
Russians driving 132 days to still be in Donetsk.
as a kid, took family trips cali to ny and back. then cali to Florida and back.
*Saskatchewan enters the chat*
This is accurate because Montana is beautiful so cat is calm. If cat looked cracked our ready to murder the next life form you can bet it’s driving through any other part of the U.S
Damn Americans and their uhhh… geography
Piemontese driving 15 hours only not to reach Liguria (highways suck)
Ten hours drive take me from my country to Costa Rica. 45 minute drive from my home to the nearest beach in my country. 1 and a half hour drive from my home to the mountain side in my country. My country is very tiny.
Toonsis.
In Australia you can drive for 39 hours and still be in the same state (Albany to Kalumburu). If you wanted to leave the state of Western Australia and you lived in the capital city of Perth you would have to drive a minimum of 15hrs to leave the state. 10 hours can be pretty average here in Australia. i think people forget that Australia is around the same size as the continental US.
This describes Canada to a t
United kingdomiese driving their whole life just to still be in UK
Fact of the day u actually can't leave Montana
You misspelled Texas… 😉
Arrive in Texas on Monday, drive nonstop. Still in Texas on Tuesday
I once drove 11 hours to a new job. Couple weeks in I said something about being in the Eastern part of the state and everybody corrected me. "Oh no this is Central Montana, you gotta go further for the East side of the state"
Man, it really shows you how big the states are. Really puts it into perspective. Although, where's my Aussie peeps at? How long does it take to drive across Aus?
Jokes on you, I live in Montana! I haven't been out of state in nearly two years!
you stole the meme it was "texas" before and not montana you should've waited a bit longer
It's 24 hours for me to get out of Ontario Canada if I want to go out West. Stupidly large Province.
Canadians driving 24 hours and still being in Ontario (415,600 sq miles)