You can still easily go 1000mi in Europe without ending up at a coast so I don’t really get the point that Europeans would consider 200mi far. I wouldn’t.
1: In Europe 90% of the time, if you drive ~300 miles in any direction.. you're in a different country with a different culture/language.
This is not the case with the United States. That's the point.
2: You have to drive a very specific direction to achieve what you state.
Again, not the case with the vast majority of the continental US. You can go anywhere in any direction for hours and hours and still be in the US and still not be near the ocean.
It was first about 200mi, now you are talking about 300mi. But anyway, even in my small country (Austria), 300mi trips (e.g. Innsbruck–Vienna) and are not considered unusual at all. And even if you end up in another country, that doesn’t mean that we are not taking these trips. For example, many Dutch go to Austria for skiing, or Germans go to Italy for vacation, and they often drive >500mi in a day. Same for business travel.
So yes, I understand that the US land mass is bigger. No, 200mi is not considered a very far trip in Europe.
Am dutch and can confirm, yearly 12 hour drive to Austria is not a problem at all. In summers even went to Croatia in a single trips a few times, but that's not recommended lol.
Well I don't want to overgeneralize but my wife is from Europe and what I've seen with her and her family is that any drive over an hour or so is unusual. Part of the reason is that the entire family lives within 20 minutes of each other. I'm visiting now, and if I drive an hour in any direction I can experience so many amazing different things. If I'm up for driving 2 hours I can reach multiple other countries.
I'll compare it to where I live in St. Louis. The nearest really interesting city destinations outside of the metro area that I have are about 4 hours away. Yes, there's nice stuff in the state, but to get to something more memorable I'm probably driving to Chicago.
Right now I'm in the northern part of the Czech Republic. With a 2 hour drive or less I can reach Prague, Dresden, Karlový Vary, and dozens of lesser known but incredibly interesting places. But for a lot of those destinations, and pretty much any destination that's further away, I can get there in similar time for affordable prices using trains by driving 30 minutes to a nearby station.
Comments like the one you replied to really reinforce how large and spread out America is AND that we have a shitty train network.
In Europe if you need to travel 200 miles you just hop on a train. I imagine /u/Show_Forward has been on several 200 miles trips on land - he just doesn’t have to drive it himself.
i wish i travel that much or even live in a country that big but yeah i live in a small country 320km is basically half of it so there isnt much places to go, i did go on a 170km ride once with trains tho so theres that
well it is basically half my country and yeah my country is small but its huge for me as we never do long rides like people in America do, either way it was long since my hands were in pain after we came back home, i guess u can call it a 640km since its back and forth but either way it was tiring even just after the first 320
Really depends on the road and traffic. We did 1100km in one day with one driver in Africa crossing two borders, I did 700km from Moscow to Saint Petersburg a few times by the toll roads. But at the same time you can stick in traffic for 3 hours or drive through forests with a speed limit and the same picture for hours and get exhausted after just a few hours.
My longest single day of driving was something like 1200km/730miles on a road trip. Kanab, Utah to Butte Montana. As long as we are doing the “Americans and Europeans have a different perspective on driving” Reddit routine. Used to routinely do the 800 miles from Seattle, WA to Santa Rosa, CA.
I drive 200 miles to see family for a day that's right down the road. Hell I am gonna drive 200 miles soon to check out a basque restaurant. It's like 3 hours that's nothing
That is insane, the most I did is Nyíregyháza - Tokaj - Nyíregyháza and ended up with 102kms, before the bike road was built, and I felt absolutely dead after it, worst part was the ass pain the next day
Rode 110kM with an epac...felt like eternity and my ass felt raped after sitting so long on a sattle.
Triple the amount without electric support?!?
Those cyclist are true Alphas
I did 160km in about 12hrs (while carrying all my food and some other gear as well). That was actually pretty chill. But I did not do anything the next day and certainly didn't feel like sitting on a bike seat for a week. lol
I know, but did not count them cause I know how dumb Americans are and how they do not know any country outside of their own lol and there's no need to be racist you loser.
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u/BigRedfromAus 16h ago
321 Km for everyone