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WCDT: 2372-2376 (28 January - 1 February 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Bluesummers:
I drove up to the white mountains, just on the New Hampshire side of the border, for my first anniversary, at the end of January a few years ago. There's a wonderful B&B up there in Bethlehem, NH, and we drove back in a blinding snowstorm so intense that D.O.T crews weren't even coming out. Not once did I ever catch a glimpse of a moose. I was so sad...
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: Border Reiver on 31 Jan 2013, 04:37 ---Americans are cute with their "big states-little states" thing. Most Canadian Provinces are bigger than two or three states combined...except that Alaska place. We gauge travel time in hours on the highway (for instance, my folks are a 10 hour drive away, no big deal).
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I live in New Jersey and am moving either to Boston or New Hampshire this summer. It's a four or five hour drive, depending on which one I move to. To my cousin in Montana, that's nothing. To me? I'm probably going to only make it once a month, because four hours is a significant journey.
pwhodges:
I'm a little puzzled by those who say that a ten-hour drive is a mere nothing - do they really have so little else to occupy their time that ten hours is so readily available?
bhtooefr:
It's more that, in those areas, a ten hour drive is routine, due to the distances at play.
Myself, I find a 1 hour drive fairly normal (despite my commute being 10 minutes), a 3 hour drive not bad, a 6 hour drive moderate, and a 10+ hour drive long. 13 hours is about the most I can do in one sitting (although sometimes that 13 includes a couple ~15 minute nap stops).
TimO:
LOL, I find these sort of distances to be cute in the other direction. With the USA you have a country (and states) so big that you're barely bothering to use much of it. :-D
I could get from Lands End to John O'Groats in around fourteen hours in a car, and the record for cycling it is well under fifty hours (depending on whether you count a recumbent as a cycle or not, which the Road Records Association doesn't).
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