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Nothing like driving for 10 hours and still not leaving California or Texas!
Grew up in South Texas. Going to visit family in Missouri, we would start driving at 5 in the morning, only braking for food and bathrooms, and still have to stop for the night at the Arkansas border.
You only slow down for food and bathrroms>
What about red lights?
Traffic?
We have these crazy things called Interstates over here that don't have traffic lights and range from 2-20 lanes to avoid even the appearance of traffic. Terms and conditions apply to the latter.
Nope, everyone in Texas drives like we're playing Burnout: Revenge
For people wondering, this is true. When you cross the Texas border they automatically attach a small device to your car that allows you to survive any wreck and reset your car to being brand-new!
or at the very least, people here drive like they think this is true.
I didn't wanna say, but I've been to Dallas. You have too many lanes to be coming into mine.
Except for the construction areas of 35, where five lanes will suddenly become two
Here's a crazy alternative: railway.
Oh right. You guys don't have that.
We're trying, it just keeps getting fucked by corruption and NIMBYs. Like everything else in this cursed state.
Even with rails it can be slow ass fuck. I took the train from LA Union station to Seattle and that took I want to say a day and a half. Standard stop and go maybe it couldve been faster if ot was more direct but even then at most youd probably only shave off maybe 4 hours at max. Its an 18 hr drive.
So take a train at night and get some sleep? That's usually how rest of the world deals with long distance travel. Plus, not driving for 18 hours sounds a much better alternative in any scenario.
Dude I left at fucking 8 in the morning from LA and didnt get to seattle till like 5 in the afternoon the nex day. The problem for me though is that I had nothing to focus on, I dont have such problems driving. Also the train only left in the morning, so yeah. 34 hour trip is fucking horrible.
Nah. Just take like 4 Ambien and sleep for that entire 34 hour train ride.
I drove Seattle to LA over the summer. Did it over two days. It wasn't pleasant per se. But I got to sleep in a real bed. Took an impromptu trip to San Jose (Winchester house). Found some good taco trucks. And still got there in half the time a train would. The train just doesn't make sense for us, not on long trips at least.
Yeah without some major improvements they just trains are only viable for say Redlands to LA. People seem to forget just how fucken big the US is, California alone is larger the Britain FFS.
Also I wish I could take sleeping pills, but between the Autism and my bodies resistences they just make me pissy.
Drive for like 200 hours and never leave Hawaii