Shocked British Guy reacts to "How America Makes Britain Look Like a Tiny Village"

[@MoreAdamCouser]

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[@JoeSchwartz-yx3jg]

When I was a traveling nurse I drove back and forth from Northern Wisconsin to Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania and back again. In less than a month about three weeks I put on over three thousand miles. Every three thousand miles an oil change. I believe in a matter of 3 and a half years I put on 100 thousand miles on my car

[@bobprivate8575]

Let's put this into perspective. Europe- the entire continent, not just the EU- is 3.9 million square miles. The US is 3.8 million square miles. The US is 97% the size of Europe.

[@marksmith4892]

Adam, UK is so widdle biddy! Hoochie coochie coo! :D

[@PunkIAm]

I just drove 1300 miles from Chicago to Florida

[@Bartskarts]

Should check out some Rodeo vids and racing vids from USA.... NASCAR....

[@Artaimus]

Driving from New England to Florida there is a section of highway where the GPS just says "continue for 800 miles".

[@grantharriman284]

My record is 400, going west out of Pittsburgh towards Terre Haute

[@RuffianTux]

That would be soul-crushing to hear during a drive.

[@texasforever7887]

There is a road sign in Texas showing El Paso is 857mi away

[@ojaimark]

I'd guess that would be taking the 95 S just after leaving DC.

[@esmooth919]

That sounds like i-95. Lol

[@Uncle_Sterfry]

In Texas if you ask us how far something is we answer in hours instead of miles, it’s just easier.

[@paulallen7401]

Same in Canada cities people use time country areas miles

[@cagal1066]

Same in California

[@tupelohoney622]

Especially in Texas' MMA. In Houston, a trip from the Galleria area to Hobby Airport, can take 20 minutes to 2 hours, depending if it's 2:00 a.m. or Friday afternoon at 4:30 p.m. Leaving work on time insured at least an hour commute or work until 6:00 p.m. and only have a 20 minute drive home.

[@scottw5253]

Yes, Americans in general indicate travel distance in number of hours, rather than miles/km. An American is much more likely to tell you a trip will take "x" number of hours, than tell you the mileage from memory.

[@4potslite169]

Always by hrs! We take traffic into account for you here!

[@JeffC-fs7mn]

Fun note: Lake Superior is approximately the same size as Scotland.

[@harryballsak1123]

Land area wise Scotland and South Carolina are about the same size and weirdly teh same population

[@robertkennett4622]

Land, parcels of land, such as cities and states, and water, bodies of water, such as oceans, seas, and lakes, are not comparable.

[@darcyperkins7041]

​@@robertkennett4622Why not?

[@lanmandragoran8337]

@@robertkennett4622 Sure they are, i just watched that guy compare them. Weird of you to just be out here lying like that. Specifically when its so easy to see the lie.

[@erickchristensen746]

@@robertkennett4622 Do you not understand the measurement of distance, width, and length? Lmao! We aren’t talking about the depth of the lake boyo

[@Kaycey777]

Canadian here. I went just shy of 1,200 km in one day to attend a funeral the following day and then the third day was another 1,200 km back home. that was a nightmare drive.

[@oxide9679]

I've had Europeans insult me for not knowing exactly what city is capital of what European country. I'm decent at world geography, but not stellar. But my reply is that it takes equal effort for Americans to just learn our own geography as it takes for any European to learn all of Europe's geography.

[@Ron-d2s]

50 States with 50 State Capitals and 50 State Flowers and 50 State Mammals... and 50 State Crops.... Corn, Potatoes, Maple Syrup.......... not to mention the rivers and mountains....... Next time show them a US map and ask them to point out "The Little Big Horn"!!!

[@matthewharrington9723]

That would be more impressive if more Americans did it. But most of us do not. I've seen British and Canadian people outperform Americans in state identification tests.

[@SpliffyHusk]

@@Ron-d2scan’t even ignore counties, because yes, coming from a certain county is the same as saying you’re from wales, or London. Like in Cali, are you from the bay? IE? LA? Central? That shit matters to Americans more than Europeans realize. It’s a massive culture shock going from LA to IE. But central also has Sac town, but then LA has insane distinction. South central, the valley, Compton etc. so there’s even more break down. One state alone has so much difference it’s practically its own country.

[@Ron-d2s]

@@SpliffyHusk I'm from Montana, there are the mountains and then there is West Dakota.

[@zwrulez185]

@@SpliffyHuskBoroughs in NY make a MAJOR difference too. And even _within_ boroughs - Harlem is completely different from the upper west side, but they’re both in Manhattan.

[@RyJsLn]

2:00 This question was interesting to me. Most Americans, when we talk about a drive, we refer to it in "hours" and not "miles". So when you asked that question, my answer was "I have no idea". I know that my family will do road trip vacations, and my limit is about 11 hours. I just looked it up, turns out it was about 675-700 miles. After that, I'm gonna fly. But my longest trip, for the record, was in college. Went on a spring break trip with friends, we drove 29 hours, one way.

[@GuardianOwl]

Which makes sense as miles can be deceptive. Depending on whether or not its back roads, highway, or interstate driving there is a vast difference in how much distance you can cover since there is such a difference in max speed limits on those 3 road types.

[@pokor5791]

I love to drive. I have driven STRAIGHT (without sleep) from Miami to Green Bay (1600m , 23h), Houston to GB (1250, 19:30), GB to Las Vegas and back (3 times, 1850m 27h).

[@Deadguy2322forreal]

When I was in high school, my family drove down to Anaheim, CA from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Three days and nights of driving.

[@RND_Gaming]

⁠​⁠@@GuardianOwlfor example supporting what you say Pittsburgh pa to Philadelphia pa is a 5 hour 305 mile drive. But Paris France to Amsterdam Netherlands is a 310 mile but 6 hour drive

[@mikesixx7655]

damn thats a good 1500 miles at least. that beats me by like 400

[@TommyBuskulic-u2k]

Adam, Consider this: The distance between New York & Los Angeles is longer than the distance between Lisbon & Moscow. Texas is larger than any European nation, except Russia.

[@helenwilliams7065]

Heck, I've seen Home Depot parking lots in Texas that are bigger than Lichtenstein.😂❤ Hook 'em Horns 🤘

[@brockelley09]

Isn’t Ukraine bigger too?

[@rmkarros]

nope, Ukraine is 33,000 square miles smaller than texas. ​@@brockelley09

[@TommyBuskulic-u2k]

​@@brockelley09 Surprisingly, no. According to the U.S. Census, the total area (land & water) of Texas is 695,662 square kilometers. According to the CIA World Factbook, the total area (land & water) of Ukraine is 603,550 square kilometers. I was surprised by that myself. www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/2010/geo/state-area.html www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/ukraine/#geography

[@rolkflameraven1483]

​@@brockelley09 Than Texas? No. Ukraine is ~233,000 sq miles. Texas is ~268,600.

[@wandagreen2688]

I am 74 years old and a woman. When I was 21 years old, I toured the United States and Canada with my then boyfriend. I will be forever grateful to him for taking me on this trip. It was the greatest adventure of my life, all the national parks amazed me. It was so awesome and beautiful. Thank you, Michael for taking me on this adventure. The best gift I ever had.

[@zombietech2010]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing that

[@venrisulven]

New england names are 45% england, 45% native american and 10% past presidents nothing else

[@justanonvegan]

I would guess at least 80% of new england is names after places in england

[@petalchild]

​@justanonvegan A lot are, but as the commenter mentioned there are also a lot of names from native american languages. The name Massachusetts itself is an example.

[@samanthas2280]

What about places that aren't England/UK? Peru, Paris, Mexico, Denmark, China, Belgrade, Smyrna, Calais, Lebanon, Lisbon, Stockholm, Troy, Sweden, Columbia, Corinth, Moscow, Vienna, Rome, Carmel.... And that's just Maine! Though I get it. I'm ruining the joke. Sorry. Yes a ton of places are the types you said.

[@gonkdroid4prez539]

you forgot biblical names. Tons of Canaans, Goshens, etc.

[@pocketnunu]

@@samanthas2280 I lived in ME for about 18 years and I never got to see that road sign with all the places on it. I lived in and around the Portland area, finally landing in Falmouth (yes, the original place is in the UK).

[@SharkyShocker]

If there's ever a question of why Americans seem to love cars so much, it's all about distance. For a lot of Americans outside of dense cities, it's not uncommon for the nearest grocery store to be 6-8 kilometers away. That combined with the fact that a majority of the journey between has no side walks and no public transport, cars are the only option.

[@zamboughnuts]

If you're only 6-8 km from a grocery store you live "in town".

[@ellee2685]

The grocery store nearest to my parent's home is 73km A store 6-8km away is nothing

[@SharkyShocker]

@@zamboughnuts Correct. You're not going to find a majority of Americans in the middle of nowhere, they'll be "close enough" to civilization.

[@Darkmagi92]

The nearest town to me with a store is 15 miles away

[@margiemachado4951]

I can get to a grocery store in 8 miles one way. Doctor 30 miles round trip. Rode my bicycle from Oregon to Maine in 2013. Took 69 days. Clocked in 3,600 miles (went into Canada for a bit from Michigan and back in the USA in NY after a couple of days at Niagara Falls.).

[@jlocklear88]

I'll never forget when I drove to Texas, took me 21 hours, and once you get into Texas it's goes on forever.

[@rayalevesque]

i10 two days, El Paso to Louisiana. i40 two hours.Right across the panhandle and into Oklahoma or New Mexico depending on east west or west east.

[@chanmi1957]

It took me 17 hours to go from El Paso to Houston. I drove through mountains, desert, plains, cities and small towns. It took me 19 hours to drive from southwestern Ohio to Houston. That shows just how big Texas really is.

[@Nowhereman-dk6ew]

I thought you said "once you get into Texas it's gone forever" lmao

[@mizztab3677]

Oh god yes, drove from Houston to Indianapolis Indiana and I had to stop before we got out of Tx. Took two days for me

[@charles6952]

First mileage marker I saw when I came in from Louisiana was 983 miles, give or take. Used to think PA was long.

[@Happymars24]

At highway speeds with NO STOPS, it takes 41 hours to drive from Los Angeles to New York. 20 hours to drive from New York to Miami. Something to think about next time you hear Euro-bros talk about our lack of high speed rail and public transport. You can take an Amtrack train from Chicago to Miami, but the trip last 5 DAYS.

[@apostateCourier]

That's because our trains and railways are shit and wildly outdated

[@hurrricaneaudrey]

sad to see amtrak outside of the northeast is almost always very considerably delayed, very expensive, and runs on (crappy and freight-prioritized) rail lines. hsr and better public transit would definitely help but if amtrak costs more and takes longer than just renting a car or flying, nobody will seriously take it

[@georgetsokanis3542]

Drove from Sacramento California to Albany ny in 1986,speed limit of 55mph,3400 miles in 60 hours.

[@endymonyt4268]

china is bigger with a robust rail network. it has nothing to do with size.

[@xqueenfrostine]

@@apostateCouriereven if we had a better rail system, it would still take a long time to cross the country by train. China currently has the long route of high speed rail in the world, the Beijing-Guangzhou route, which at 1390 miles is roughly half the distance between NYC and LA. It can take anywhere from 8 to 11 hours to travel the whole route. So at minimum, a NY-LA train would take 16-22 hours, but I think it would actually be much longer than that as a route through the Rocky Mountains would likely slow the progress of the train. I would expect the route to take at least 26 hours.

[@Art930]

I live in Minneapolis. On a whim one Friday morning I decided to drive to Mexico. Highway 35 goes straight through: 1400 miles one way. Stopped overnight twice, walked across the bridge to Mexico, had lunch, turned around and drove 1400 miles back.

[@stubbystudios9811]

As a fellow person some Minneapolis I feel that

[@charles6952]

Awesome. I've done 5 day round robins to NE from NJ. same 1400 miles. Coffee and tunes, King Bisk Biscuit, Dr. Demento for the hours of corn on a road in Iowa.

[@thebug410]

@@charles6952 holy crap doctor demento? is that still on the air?

[@RiverRatWA57]

On my return trip home from a factory school in Beloit WI, I visited family in Michigan, on Tuesday morning I woke up leaving Iron Mountain MI on my GoldWing, camped overnight in Glendive MT and hit the road Wednesday morning I bedded down in my own bed in Bremerton that night. That's running close to the speed limit.

[@seraphwithatank6535]

This is someone who really needed a break. 😂

[@THE_Fables1]

Fun fact you can split Alaska in half and Texas becomes the third biggest state

[@Dichotious]

HAHAHA That's so funny

[@gagejoseph91]

I live in Connecticut. My friend lives in Scotland. She once said that when she visits, she also wants to go to Disney World. I told her that's on the other side of the country and she said "Bit of a drive, yeh, but it'll be fun!" I had to explain to her that Disney is roughly 1000 miles away, and driving there would be like her driving to Italy lol "YOUR COUNTRY IS ENORMOUS!!"

[@lanmandragoran8337]

Shouldn't have told her, and just said "Yeah, we should do it" and then 10 hours in be like "Oh yeah, we're almost halfway there, no problem at all!" =)

[@DarthCiliatus]

Disney Land is the one on the opposite side of the country. World is still on the east coast (about 1.1k miles from Connecticut still) Connecticut to Disneyland is about 2.8k miles. For scale driving from Glasgow to Rome is about 1.5k miles.

[@gagejoseph91]

@DarthCiliatus Connecticut is far north, Disney World is far south. It's still the opposite side of the country moving vertically instead of horizontally.

[@lanmandragoran8337]

@@gagejoseph91 Shh, don't go ruining his argument with facts.

[@pigs18]

Twenty hours from the Hartford area and only if you have a bit of a lead foot, a strong bladder, plenty of snacks, and don't stop until you need gas.

[@AlexSadof]

My longest road trip: I grew up in Boston, Massachusetts and moved to Los Angeles in 1995 when I was 21. In 3 weeks, I drove from Boston, MA, to Nashville, Tennessee (1,101 miles) to pick up my friend. We then drove to Miami, Florida (908 miles) to spend a week at our grandparents condos. Then I drove him back to Nashville (908 miles), and from there drove to Durham, North Carolina (527 miles), where I met my girlfriend's sister. I picked her up, and from North Carolina, we drove to Los Angeles (2,530 miles) via South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana (stopped off in New Orleans), Texas (stopped off in San Antonio) New Mexico, Arizona (stopped off at the Grand Canyon), and then finally to Los Angeles. 5,974 miles in 3 weeks.

[@Annalore-cn2hk]

As someone who lives in America (Texas specifically), we say distance in time, usually hours. It just makes more sense and gives you a better idea of when you’ll get there and what you should do to prepare. For instance, if someone asked how far my mom’s job is from her house, I would say 2 hours, not the mileage.

[@slythewicked9403]

Same here in Montana

[@sheriffbart616]

We do that in MI too.

[@Annalore-cn2hk]

@MurdogYT Usually. It's kinda far, and the area I live has high traffic when she goes to/ leaves work, so it's roughly 2 hours.

[@quincyking010]

wait is that actually an american thing. i just thought everyone did that i mean when they think a 34 minute drive is "far" that is honestly more of a nearby here. i mean going from where i live in ohio to columbus is about 1 hour and 30ish minutes if no traffic problems and im not even far from columbus

[@MattSaysYes]

We do that in Michigan too

[@pndb2016]

Two guys I knew in college didn't have any spring break plans, so they decided to drive from their home down near New York City, all the way to San Francisco. They drove in shifts, stopping for meals and bathroom breaks. They somehow convinced a motel along the way to let them use a room's shower for $10. By the time they reached San Francisco, they had just enough time to go visit the piers east of Telegraph Hill and take a couple of pictures, before climbing back in their car for the drive back home. Their spring break week was basically spent driving across the country and back.

[@SongOfEire]

It’s worth it to spend an hour in San Francisco.

[@soyentak5076]

we did this in college in 1999 on Summer Holiday. but From Vancouver BC to Halifax NS in Canada. took us 7 days one way

[@CorsetGrace]

"The coldest winter I've ever spent was a summer in San Franciso." - Mark Twain For those not in the United States, the shortest route between New York (on the east coast of America) and San Francisco (on the west coast of America) is 2902 miles (4670 km.)

[@bassage13]

@@SongOfEire It used to be. The place is a disgusting nightmare now.

[@timothy098-b4f]

@@bassage13No it isn’t. Stop listening to Trump’s nonsense.

[@Faesharlyn]

That's why people in europe think that americans aren't well traveled, because you can drive for twenty minutes and be in France and then drive for another twenty minutes and be in Germany and then drive for another twenty minutes and be in Switzerland I can drive for three hours and not even leave my state of Massachusetts

[@cslewisster]

Depending where you're at in PA you can drive for 7 hours and still be in PA.

[@Faesharlyn]

@cslewisster Sometimes it takes seven hours to get from one side of Boston to the other lol

[@imagromlin]

I could probably drive for 10 hours and still be in California

[@Faesharlyn]

@imagromlin it's 900 miles top to bottom, takes about 15 hours

[@teuast]

one time i heard a parody of hey there delilah that went "hey there delilah, what's it like in houston, texas? i'm six hundred miles away and yet somehow i'm still in texas"

[@Jdietz43]

I have a unique perspective on this because I was a line-haul truck driver (semi trucks) for a few years, so even by "American standards" I have a high tolerance for long road trips now. But our family routinely makes the trip between Milwaukee Wisconsin to Minneapolis Minnesota in the neighboring state about two to three times a year to see the rest of the extended family who live out that way. It's a 350 mile trip and takes on average 5h30m to 6h to get there one-way. That's ONE state over. ONE. That's about as far as my family will drive before we consider it a trip that needs a plane ticket, though I know of families who will do extended road trips over several days with planned stops, or have shift-drives switching between family members instead. As for when I was a trucker, my nightly route was from Milwaukee to the edge of Ohio and was just over 500 miles round trip. More than that and it's a long-haul route that requires a sleeper cab because you can no longer make a return trip in one shift as you can't legally drive longer than 14 hours in a usual day before you're a massive road hazard and unfit to continue driving without sleep. The US's transport industry is utterly MASSIVE (and rightfully expensive) for this exact reason. To get something just one state away requires a dedicated team of professionals working around the clock on your behalf and there's FIFTY states worth of goods to move.

[@dalbyadventure]

Oh man, 18 years ago I drove to new jersey from nevada for my girlfriend, then drove back a month later. total of 4,000 miles 😂 - all solo too. you eventually enter a semi meditative state. at first you're listening to music etc, then you turn off the music/audio books and have nothing playing, and you're just staring at the road and landscape go by, and hours and miles go past you and eventually you're thousands of miles into the trip. on the weekends it's not too far fetched to drive 300+ miles to hang out with some friends for a day or two - at least in the western US. thanks for the vid - super interesting to watch!

[@MENTALTAKEDOWN]

You’re crazy for driving in silence, I always have a few podcasts or videos to keep me company for the next 9+ hours

[@MrTrethurane]

That's road hypnosis and it really messes with reaction time.

[@wookieenookiee6696]

I recall chatting with someone from Rotterdam, Netherlands once about a concert I went to that was 6 hours away. Mind you, I never left the state I lived in the entire drive. His response was, "I'd never drive to France for a concert!" Geography is so cool when you have it in excess.

[@bmoore117]

You live in Florida or California lol

[@ElitheDryeena]

@@bmoore117 or texas, or wyoming, or colorado, or alaska, or montana.. western states are big man.

[@rodrigovelasquez9854]

@@bmoore117 CA is especially hard to leave because of the Sierra Nevadas.

[@derago99]

In the US, when we talk about distance we don't say "this is however many miles from that" we say "this is so many hours from that" because everything is so spread out that it's just easier to talk about the time it takes to get from one place to another rather than the actual distance. This should be a pretty good hint about how big the US is.

[@NorthShoreDad]

Yep, we totally do that. Boston to New York? About 5 hours away. Boston to DC? About 10 hours away.

[@autisticwitch7581]

It's also more practical. I live in California. If my drive takes me through Los Angeles, the same drive can take anywhere from 30 minutes to 4 hours.

[@drakenguard95]

trueee. at a certain point saying anything over like 10 miles it starts to meld together in my head. i cant visualize 10 miles on a map but i can visualize time as distance lmao

[@tspawn35]

Yeah, Due to living in Texas it's so much easier to say Dallas is 4.5h from me. Houston is 3h, Austin is 1.5h and El Paso is 8h. When I moved to Texas from Phoenix having never been in it before I got to the Texas - New Mexico boarder and went sweet almost there. Ha I wasn't even close. I was only half way done with the drive. The other half was all in Texas.

[@EricaGonzaSquad]

@@tspawn35I’m in/near San Antonio and the farthest I’ve driven was from SA to Chicago. It took 24 hrs but I remember thinking how “quick” it felt when we kept crossing over the different state lines because we were FINALLY out of Texas haha

[@kennethjohnson3442]

I once had to haul a 13 foot wide (almost 4 meters) semi load from Wisconsin to Arizona. Started driving on Sunday, arrived to my destination on Wednesday, made a stop in Missouri to pick up something to take back on Thursday, and made it home on Friday. 3400 miles in 60 hours of driving for 6 days. I loved every minute of it

[@angryginger791]

Earlier this year, my dad gave me an awesome deal on his truck. The only catch was that it was in Florida and I live in Connecticut. So I flew down on a Friday and drove it home over the weekend. It was a little over 1200 miles and took around 20 hours of actual driving time. By Sunday evening, I was home with a near-mint condition Tacoma for something like $10k under bluebook value.

[@AtheNiify]

Dang that's a steal, and I bet the road trip was at least a little fun

[@timothyharshaw2347]

I'm an American - ive driven from Howell, New Jersey to Atlanta, Georgia in 12 hours. It's around 840 miles distance. I did it in one day and night. It took me 14 hours to get back, also one single drive. No sleeping

[@steven-eb8zw]

I'm from howell too! Done the 360 mile drive to Pittsburgh a handful of times! 5 hours one road, very fun

[@businessbunni8423]

ive done 1300 in a day no sleeping alone at 17, wisconsin to colorado

[@firemonkey1015]

I drove from Phoenix Arizona to eureka Montana which is over 1,300 miles. One go and no sleep. It’s about 24 hours

[@idrather7953]

Me and two buddies drove from Wisconsin to Washington state and it took 24 hours we just rotated driver every empty tank

[@arquebusx]

I used to do the Philly-Atlanta trip a lot. Grew up in Philly, lived in Atlanta. Visiting my folks was a 14 hour drive each way.

[@omegaprime223]

As part of getting through my dad's bucket list after he was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease we did the Park service's Coast to Coast, 4383 miles officially, though we did sneak in the Redwood Forest which added in a few hundred extra miles. It was almost twenty days of misery, beauty, and amazement in equal measures. I could never do it again, but it was probably the single best trip I've ever been on, I highly recommend it to anyone that's outdoorsy and has the time to do it.

[@RyAnneFultz]

@@omegaprime223 When my father retired, he did a road trip I'm envious of. He drove from the Oregon coast to the tip of Washington to Acadia National Park in Maine to the Florida Keys to San Diego and back to where he lived on the Oregon coast. I have no idea how many miles that is, but it's got to be a hell of a lot, especially staying in a campground in his tent every night.

[@zmartieq]

I’m sorry to hear about your father. My boyfriend is facing a potential ALS diagnosis and we’re thinking of things like a bucket list also

[@CoachChef]

And the money

[@omegaprime223]

@@zmartieq If it's positive, do everything strenuous first, and try to get as much done in the first two years as you can, year 3 and 4 you can usually do things that they can sit and do a tiny bit of walking for. By year 5 they'll basically be immobile, and people don't usually get a year 6 unfortunately. Rushing through the list sucks, but the memories will stay with you forever. And get as many photos as you can.

[@endymonyt4268]

Alaska is mostly empty space, but most of it has a climate pretty similar to north/central Europe

[@grimmace6671]

I received a brand new truck for work in April. It's now September. In those 5 months, I have driven the truck over 42,000 miles (about 67,600km). The truck has not left the states of Washington and Oregon. This is considered a local driving job - I'm back home every night. Long-haul drivers run even more miles (I've been there, done that). In addition, I drive my personal pickup about 25 miles each way going to and from work. I believe I'm near 3 million accident free miles driven in commercial trucks.

[@lanmandragoran8337]

Nice.

[@mikesixx7655]

damn well done, nice to see a CDL A that drives safe

[@starlitee]

Insurance rates go crazy for you huh

[@CoachChef]

That's Impressive

[@grit1679]

I grew up in Alaska, spent 30 years there, but some of my ancestors were from Cornwall and Ireland. There's actually not that much ice in Alaska--it's more rock and tundra--but it is huge.

[@lieutenantmeatball5590]

Yeah if you want the ice you gotta go north or come here in winter

[@ruthlafler5622]

LOL! My English cousin once floated the idea of cycling from Vermont to California. Now, you can do that, but not without a lot of planning! There are a couple of mountain ranges more than 3 times bigger than anything in the UK and a few hundred miles of desert. Or you can bypass the deserts by adding a few hundred more miles and some more mountains. There are places in Wyoming with road signs warning you that the next exit is more than 50 miles. On the other hand, I've driven in the UK, and it always astonishes me how long it takes to drive what I think is a relatively short distance. I used to work in a tourist area in San Francisco (California). I was chatting with a man from Germany who had just driven across the US (shortest route is roughly 3,000 miles [or 5,000 km]). He remarked that now he understood why most Americans don't speak a foreign language: you can drive for days and still be in the same country.

[@ItsDaKoolaidDude]

That and a lot of the roads through Californian mountains (such as from Julian to Ramona or Borrego Springs to Poway) don't have a safe space for cyclists to separate themselves from the cars. You're sharing the road with them until you leave those mountains.

[@SeralthSparro]

Americans dont need different languages. We have like 5 types of english just here in the country! Some of our dialects get wild.

[@ItsDaKoolaidDude]

@@SeralthSparro li'e th' Su'thrns

[@camillesamples8790]

My friends cycled from San Diego to St. Augustine, FL. Southern route.

[@akbrooks70]

That’s like going from driving in Texas to driving in a state like Virginia where they just paved over horse cart paths from the 1600’s. Everything in Texas is pretty much a straight shot with the highway system (except in the hill country west of Austin). It’s so frustrating to me when I go east and a 20 mile trip takes an hour.

[@halfgingertweak]

I drove from Seattle to Maine, about 3200 miles. One of the best ways to give an idea of how big the US is would be to say that the reason most Americans only speak English is because in most of America, you can drive 60 mph for 12 hours in most directions and still be in America. Edit: I had to update the number as it's been a while, and i was underestimating the distance.

[@josephbroadus7458]

Seattle to Maine 3284 miles 48 hrs

[@StormIamthe]

My longest single road trip was Los Angeles to New York which is around 2,700 miles, but i have also driven from Seattle to Orlando Florida.. 2600 miles. I have made MANY "smaller" road trips of 1,000+ miles. America is incredibly diverse, and deserves exploration by ALL Americans!! Do it, and create lasting memories!

[@daytonaflyer]

Seattle to Orlando is well over 3,000 miles.

[@StormIamthe]

@@daytonaflyer It does depend on your route i suppose, and possibly i am remembering it wrong.. but I seem to remember trip reading being between 2600 & 2700 miles. I won't quibble.

[@xtlm]

You sound like me lol. I've done Philly to San Diego a couple times actually taking different routes. Then with the Family we went to Florida/South Carolina/Indiana a lot. One day I'll get to the rest of the west coast hopefully. The weird part though is that I've never been to NYC hahaha.

[@tye829]

So true. One of my favorite things about America is its natural beauty and how diverse it is. There are deserts, massive snowy mountains, cold rainforests, hot swamps, grassy plains, all sorts of different biomes. It is a gorgeous country. The only country comparable in terms of its diversity is China, which is nearly the same exact size as the US and sits at roughly the same latitudes.

[@bryanbeattie3381]

I've done the drive from Philadelphia to San Diego twice. Took about 4 days.

[@rhov-anion]

My longest drive was a trip to Grandma's house, something Brits would probably hardly think about. Every 3-4 years, my parents would load up the van with camping gear and we'd go visit my grandparents. The SHORT route was 1,800 miles, but my dad hated that route. No, he kept going on side trips the entire way there. We got to see Vegas, the Grand Canyon, Carlsbad Caverns, the Alamo, Houston NASA Space Center, Cherokee Nation, Memphis to see where Elvis lived, once he took us to Ciudad Juárez purely so we could say we've been to Mexico. We camped wherever we could, every few days staying in a KOA to shower. Our "trip to Grandma's house" typically ran 2500 miles (4000 km), lasted 7-10 days, then we got to spend two weeks on my grandparents' farm, getting our cheeks pinched by relatives who cooed over how big we had grown since our last visit, mostly just bored while the adults all talked, then drive 2000 miles back, this time going a completely different route.

[@agustinhernandez6218]

That sounds wonderful. Thank your father for the experience. Mine always took the quickest most boring route. Just stoping for gas and bathroom non stop.

[@Lynn-kh5rs]

We did something similar once, when my husband was transferred from the west coast to the east. We took 3 weeks and zig-zagged across the country playing tourist along the way. It was a great trip!

[@ajplays7241]

my longest one was the last vacation i took i drove 680.31 miles. than driving back we had a detour about 1,000 or so miles or more.

[@sandiepaul9421]

Ahhhh, good times!!🎉🎉🎉

[@kamelhaj6850]

I had to laugh at the "bored while the adults all talked" because I remember those days. Luckily, we siblings would play/talk with our cousins who lived there.

[@margaretfalde]

10:15 tbh most Americans (myself included) don't realize, comparatively speaking, how massive America is either

[@stevenschalck2781]

I learned this gaming with some folks from over the pond and asked what difference time zones they had and to my surprise they dont have any it's basically all one time zone

[@quackcreations1546]

It really takes a trip across the US by car to truly understand the scale of it

[@ThatguyT0ki]

my biggest drive was from Chattanooga Tennessee to Denver Colorado which we drove in one 2 and a half day trip of 1,288.4 miles

[@ThatguyT0ki]

although we have done longer drives that's the main one that comes to mind

[@troys6965]

For road trips, we try to do at least 500 miles per day for long distances.

[@jeremypearson9019]

Yeah, I was going to say the same thing. About 500 miles per day is standard.

[@ginnyjollykidd]

And a Greyhound bus driver isn't allowed to do more than 800 miles in a day. I had a driver change during my bus ride from Louisville, KY to Casper, WY.

[@Mokey56001]

If your young and foolish, carpooling with two drivers at least, you can go round the clock for long trips. Almost 900 miles without stopping over night.

[@lanmandragoran8337]

@@Mokey56001 Or If you're insane like me you do Spearfish, SD to Pittsburgh, PA in 22 hours by yourself. Did the first 400 miles out of South Dakota between 4am and 8am, would've been wayyy ahead of schedule then i hit horrible traffic in Wisconsin that lost me a couple hours time over 10 miles. 3 wrecks happened in that span. 2 of them from impatient fuckwits trying to get out of the first wreck area 'faster', well dipshit, you're part of the people stuck here indefinitely now.

[@broc2727]

500 miles per day is about 8 hours. what do you do for the rest of the day?

[@jeanbot]

Also, keep in mind, that a good chunk of the continent is farmland and another hefty chunk is the Rockies followed by a sizable desert. East of the Mississippi, cities tend to be started by shipping and trade routes on rivers or some other body of water. So there’s a density of people on the coasts that kind of graduates outward to farmland where the population decreases for obvious reasons, but people still live there, they’re just spaced much further apart.

[@esmooth919]

"a good chunk" is an understatement. Lol

[@GeorgePtacek]

As an American, I believe the reason everything gets so much bigger going west is that Eastern states were primarily founded under British Rule or immediately after, bringing us more into scale with them. Once we broke away, bought the Louisiana purchase from Napoleon and started moving West there was just so much land that we were more than capable of creating massive states. It’s also why our states out west are so squared off, all of them were formed relatively at the same time and didn’t have to contend with historical claims to land. As such, states were able to be defined along straight lines with the only exceptions being those divided by rivers.

[@jordanfrench3295]

Not 100% true, Western states where drawn for political reasons before, at, and after the civil war. 100 years later this caused quite a few problems when it comes to natural resources such as water. Eastern state borders tend to follow natural borders such as rivers.

[@connorcochran836]

Hi, Adam. The longest nonstop drive I ever made by myself was from San Francisco, CA to Atlanta, GA. It was 2,408 miles. The second-longest nonstop drive I ever made was from Los Angeles, CA to Saint Louis, MO. That was 1,825 miles. ("Nonstop" did include stopping to buy gas and go to the restroom, of course. Just not to rest or sleep.) Not an impossible thing to do when you don't have any other option, but nothing I'd choose to repeat.

[@JasonMistretta-wf5ip]

2:05. A few years ago I visited Forth Worth, Texas. Adam, I drove from Fort Worth, Texas to El Paso, Texas. I drove for 9 HOURS (600 miles/965KM) and I didn't even leave the STATE OF TEXAS--hahaha!! That is another metric of how big the United States is....

[@arthurplane9682]

Agreed...did the same drive. Also, the drive from SoCal to NorCal (say San Diego to Eureka) takes forever too. Cheers!

[@medicisdad1]

Did that a couple of times when assigned to Ft. Bliss. I live in Tn. Long ride home. Headed to El Paso the first time I had to remember the wheels were turning cause not a thing changed out the window.

[@TexasRivermedic]

I live exactly 1200 miles from my in-laws. I live in Fort Worth and El Paso is the halfway point.

[@PunkIAm]

I flew in to Fort Worth and drove to South Padres Island and it was about the same distance, 9 hours just to get through half of the state lmao

[@manontherails4937]

Did that for work back in the days with the Railroad. Driving along the 10 East and back. They said: "you go to sleep in Texas, you wake up in Texas and you go to sleep again in Texas '- that's what it felt like anyway.

[@ChrisSpringer-d1r]

I've driven from San Ysidro, CA to Blaine, WA in one sitting, 21 hours, only stopping for fuel, bathroom, and snacks. I was picking up my girlfriend at the border, because she was at a bachelorette party in Tijuana. I was just the two of us in my little Toyota pickup. We started at 3 AM to skip the southern California rush hour. It was one unbroken highway the entire way, Interstate 5, which ran 1,381 miles. We rode the Alaskan Marine Highway System from Bellingham to Whittier, which is an awesome experience, I highly recommend. After arriving in Alaska, we drove around the coast all the way up to Barrow and then back down straight through Fairbanks over the course of about two months. Seriously, one of the best trips of my life.

[@MerianyaS]

I've done a similar length drive from Colorado Springs, CO to Pittsburgh, PA on 2 separate occasions. 23 hours and 1425 miles non-stop (except for gas and bathroom breaks) in a Pontiac Grand Am. Your trip along Interstate 5 sounds like a lot of fun. I'd love to get up to Alaska for a long vacation one of these years as it and Hawaii are the only 2 states west of the Missouri river that I haven't visited yet.

[@ChrisSpringer-d1r]

@@MerianyaS, yeah it was really cool. Must have been nice to do a trip that long in something that actually had some power, LOL. My pickup is a turbodiesel, so she was struggling a little bit on the steeper grades. The mileage was nice, though. 29 mpg.

[@pepelucho1751]

I've done that trip many times. I was stationed at ft lewis Washington just south of Tacoma, and I am from san diego. We used to drive back and forth on leave. And my ex is from san antonio, so we did the drive from ft lewis to san diego to san antonio, just stopping in san diego a few days to hang out with family. With kids in the back mind you. The toughest is the southern stretch from san diego to the tone where I now live. New Mexico is just nothing. Then you hit el Paso, then nothing until san antonio. Mind numbingly nothing but the occasional tourist trap. That's how big America is. That's two legs of half the country. Close to 50 hours of driving

[@Ron-d2s]

One of my cousins had not been on a motorcycle for YEARS, he had some extra cash hanging around and decided to buy a Harley... he rode from Seattle to Sturgis... when he got off he could not walk!

[@crovax17]

I have driven across the country and its absolutely insane. But the crazy oart I think about the most while driving. Is the fact people traveled that distance through some insane of the harshest environments with a horse and carriage...............It almost seems impossible but thousands did it. Heading west.

[@macylouwho1187]

I remember that my grandparents (who grew up during the great depression) had friends who literally still used a set of horses hitched to a wagon to travel distances in. It was so wild to see that when I was younger. It was an actual canvas covered wagon and everything. I remember seeing them here at their house in the driveway in the eighties thinking “wow, people still USE these things???” They had a network of people that they could stop in and stay to rest and feed their horses at their place long before the internet was around. I can’t even imagine the logistics of how one would set that all up prior to the internet but they sure did it. I remember someone lifted me up to see inside the wagon and they had all of their stuff in there, clothes, dry food, bedding because they slept in the wagon during the trip somewhere.

[@kamelhaj6850]

My grandparents (along with his mother and their then four children) took a horse drawn carriage ride from Scranton PA to Buffalo NY around the year 1900. The roughly 300 mile trip took three days! Btw, my great grandmother would have been in her early 70's and the oldest child (my aunt) would have been around 8.

[@kamelhaj6850]

Oops! I think it was more like five days! Sorry.

[@justinperlow9104]

I think about that once i get to where im going on every trip....i'll stop get out of the car and do a "huh crazy to think people used to do that on a horse and carriage etc." comment every time lol

[@themook0w602]

And god I wish they didn't.

[@acolosetti]

When I was a kid I traveled from Mayport Naval Station in Jacksonville, Florida to Akron, Ohio overnight. That's just around 900 miles. As an older teenager I worked for a company that required me to test drive cars. I'd drive approximately 500 miles a night on a major interstate only stopping for gas twice and to check the oil and tire pressure during which I could take short breaks of no more than 15 minutes. As an adult I'd go on cross-country roadtrips on a yearly basis. One of the most recent trips I traveled from northeast Ohio, through Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska, to Colorado. On the return trip I went through Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, and back into Southwest and Central Ohio before making it home. The total trip was around 3,500 miles over a period of two weeks.

[@EyeLean5280]

In America, it's not how many miles the trip is, but how many minutes or hours. A 90 or 120 minute commute for work each way isn't that unusual and when we're talking about something special or family-related, if it's less than a three hours' drive away, you have _no_ excuse.

[@CallousKobold]

Dude says we have no excuse? Riiiiight thats why people who live 20 minutes from you can't make the drive. Joker.

[@prolificillithic]

@@CallousKobold Sorry your friends and family suck but don't project that onto OP

[@Sky14318]

My husband and I travelled over 2500 miles in a bit over a week… slept in the car when we couldn’t go anymore (back of our SUV had memory foam as a bed). But keep in mind that that week included staying in one place (Utah) for 3-4 days soooo it really could’ve been more. I regularly travel almost 100 miles round trip to get to the nearest Trader Joe’s for grocery shopping. We also have driven about 200 miles (one way) on a day trip to collect lava rocks for my aquariums. Thinking 100 miles is a long drive is absolutely WILD to me. The state I live in is over 900 miles long. That’s ONE STATE.

[@zackwesch]

I did 1350 miles from southern ca to the panhandle of Idaho over 2 days took turns driving with my brother in law while my wife sat in the back with our 5 month old baby then drove back 5 days later lol

[@therobustempyrean1436]

I ince went to a concert, then to a friend's house, and then back home, and ended up doing about 180 miles in six hours. Though, I did a road trip that had me go 3800 miles in about a month, just to visit family. Man, Americans really don't flinch at dozens of miles, huh?

[@stevennguyen4993]

We also use time to measure driving distance. 30mins of travel time is different in Los Angeles, CA than it is in Rayleigh, NC

[@StepIntoTheLight]

Used to drive 20-45 minutes to work everyday from our little down up to Huntsville, AL for work. All depended on traffic. Nothing to it, could almost do it with my eyes closed after a while.

[@jarodmorris4408]

@@StepIntoTheLight Did you ever get road hypnosis? My mother had the same commute from the high school she taught at to home which was only about a 15 - 20 minute drive along highways / county roads. She said many times she felt like she woke up in our driveway and didn't remember any of the drive home.

[@StepIntoTheLight]

@@jarodmorris4408 All the time actually. There were a few landmarks that I'd always think of as I made my way home, but sometimes would just seem to blank out, and the next thing I know, I'm almost home.

[@Faesharlyn]

This is absolutely true because Boston is only an hour from Boston!

[@chasewainscott8739]

If you want to instill fear in the heart of any Charlotte, NC resident, just say the words “I-77 at 5:00” and you’ll hear a few horrified gasps.

[@lancelessard2491]

I drove from San Diego, California to Northern Minnesota and it took me 3 days. That's my longest drive ever. But truck drivers go all over the country, and I really respect that now having driven so far just one time.

[@firefalcoln]

It is true that the United States is very large. I live on the coast of California and work as an overnight front desk worker at a hotel. I get a decent number of late check-ins after 11pm. It’s often foreigners or even people from other parts of the country who underestimate the time it will take to get from A to B around California. Especially if they opt to take the more scenic roads, which happens a lot for vacationers. Some will also make a reservation at one of my hotel on the spot out of exhaustion when they’re still 3.5 hours of driving away from the Los Angeles or SF Bay Area. Where I am is also about. 5 hours away from San Diego, 6 hours away from Yosemite or Lake Tahoe, and 7 hours away from Las Vegas. If you’re driving to Oregon, that will take about 10 hours to get to the southern border. And that’s all if you drive the faster way rather than the scenic way. I once had someone arrive for a check-in who drove to the hotel from Oklahoma and was on the road for about 24 hours straight apart from stopping to refuel. And that’s only about halfway to the east coast.

[@jdanon203]

Most of the places in New England are named after places in the UK. That part of America is 400 years old. Check out google maps some time and zoom in on those 6 states and count how many of the towns are named after UK ones. You'll feel right at home.

[@napolean_ragland]

And hundreds of UK named towns and cities outside of New England too

[@xXkrazykitsuneXx]

I had a conversation with some british tourists once (I live in an east coast town from the 1600s) and they were wondering why we had so many streets and counties that were named after Prince William or King George or Princess Anne and I had to stress to them that we were still technically part of England when all this stuff got named 🤣

[@mutedroar]

I work for a company that has offices in europe and is based in america. We had two projects running in two different Dublins, and it was confusing af.

[@salladExists]

1:55 My longest drive was the 3000 mile drive when I moved from San Diego, California to New Hampshire

[@TheGavinbullard]

Navy?

[@salladExists]

@@TheGavinbullard marines

[@forestg10]

Same Santa Barbara to Massachusetts

[@madcausesadandbad]

2043 miles, Vegas to Atlanta, there's nothing but desert, mountain, desert, prairie, mountain, swamp, prairie, swamp, prairie the whole way Alaska is a big frozen oil shale shard, and large volcanos sticking off into even bigger oil fields. It's staggeringly beautiful.

[@JC-es5un]

I drove a rental car from Michigan to Washington state, stayed there a few days and drove back. I put over 6,100 miles on the rental car (I definitely made sure to get unlimited mileage on the car). I was actually pretty shocked that it only took 15 hours to reach Colorado. When you drive access America, it really changes your perspective on distance. You see a sign that says a city is 500 miles away and you’re like “Hey, that’s not bad; we can get there in less than a day!”.

[@californiadreamer2580]

Yep LOL

[@nishinasuno]

15 hours is how long it takes to drive for Seattle to San Francisco.

[@komakafox4207]

2,905 miles, from Newark NJ to Sebastopol CA solo driving; Thanksgiving week right after 9/11. Everyone was helpful, emotional, and patriotic, of all the road trips I've taken in my lifetime, this one touched me the most.

[@Spicoli8]

Currently live just north of Sebastopol.

[@komakafox4207]

@@Spicoli8 I’m jealous as all heck. Beautiful there!

[@annysebuchanon9237]

Fun fact the county I grew up in in idaho has one stop light and about 15,000 people total. And it's bigger than the entire state of new jersey

[@Snipergoat1]

How long ago was that? The population of that state has almost doubled in the 20 some years since I lived and grew up there.

[@annysebuchanon9237]

@Snipergoat1 couple years ago. Population has blown up in the treasure valley and a few other places but it stays pretty consistent in my home town at the base of the panhandle

[@acebildz1253]

I agree with others... we measure drives by hours, and long ones by days. My mom used to live on the other side of the state from me, a 7 hour drive away. My hubs and I would go over for a weekend, leaving on Friday afternoon, arriving late Friday/early Saturday. We'd have all day Saturday, and then turn around midday Sunday and head home. There's a big 2400 foot mountain pass between, so in winter it can "fun", and crowded on holiday weekends. But we did it several times a year for about 25 years, until she move to be closer to us. My longest solo drive was in college, when I drove 1200 miles across five western states to spend the summer with my boyfriend. I did it in two long days. Beautiful scenic country though. Drove in a 10 year old Toyota with a brand new AM/FM cassette player & new speakers. Yes, it was a long time ago. A year later, he and I did the same drive there and back, after he moved to my state. We took my Dad's pickup there, piled his belongings into it, and drove back, all in a weekend with no stops on the road. We took turns sleeping in the "Super Cab" section behind the front seats. One does crazy stuff when young and poor.

[@ajm5007]

Those two big counties in Alaska consist mostly of a huge, flat, permanently frozen valley between two mountain ranges, and then a huge, flat, even more frozen coastal plain north of those two mountain ranges. The interior valley is home to mostly birds, wolves, foxes, and trout. The coastal plain is home to polar bears and seals.

[@jakeferreira1211]

What I took away from this is that the UK is way smaller that I thought. I knew it was pretty small, but I didn't realize my commute to work would be considered a day trip to you guys. The longest drive I've ever personally done with no breaks/rest stops is about 220 miles. That's about the same as traveling across Northern Ireland from it's furthest point east to it's furthest point west twice. It takes almost 6 hours, and I do it pretty much every year. Most of my family has taken road trips to Florida, which is about 1200 miles and takes almost 20 hours from here, but I haven't personally driven that.

[@bobtheblueknight122]

From someone that lives in Alaska I can say that we aren't just a hunk of ice. Although in northern Alaska we do have permafrost meaning that even during the hotest days you can find frozen ground from a few inches to a few feet underground.

[@kathleenshaw838]

And cities, with buildings, paved roads, thriving urban centers. suburban neighborhoods, etc. Just like other places. In addition to the magnificent wlld areas.

[@thisisbethm]

My brothers and I drove from Minneapolis, Minnesota to southern Texas for a long weekend (for our cousin’s wedding). We left Thursday morning and got home in the wee hours of the morning Monday. 1,312 miles one way. About 20 hours. We did crash at a friend’s house for a few hours on the way down, but went straight through on the way home.

[@chrisgasmith]

10:10 maybe this will help, the us occupies a similar land area as the continent of Europe. So when picturing traveling across the continental us imagine traveling from one side of Europe to the other

[@aheath7838]

Russian Europe doesn’t count

[@davidburney8463]

As an over the road truck driver. I use to run from Ben and Jerries ice cream plant in St, Albans,Vermont to Las Vegas,Nv have to take southern route due to marshmallows in the ice cream( must stay below 2300 feet or the marshmallows will grow,pop the tops off and load gets rejected). Vermont to Little Rock,Ar,Dallas,Tx,Tucson,Az to Henderson,NV for a 3100 mile trip one way

[@Razorslash312]

I never considered how elevation can determine a truck route, but you raised an incredibly valid reason.

[@DaisyAzuras]

So can you not get Rockyroad ice cream in the Rocky Mountains Then?

[@mikedeal981]

Loved that run. I could always haul ass and take a 34 hr restart in Vegas. Be save driver.

[@nickwest932]

I had a Frito Lay delivery myself. 1500 miles and no mountains for the same reason.

[@davidnielson9139]

@@DaisyAzuras You can get it but it tends to be made in the Rockies, at least the ones I know of -- not sure if there is Ben & Jerry's flavors with marshmallows. One fun trick is, if you are going to travel from a lower area (say under 1000 feet) into the Rockies, buy a package of potato chips (or similar). As you gain in altitude the bag will expand, as the air pressure lowers. In some cases, the bag will actually pop open (just make sure the driver knows, that 'pop" can really scare you if you forget) since so much air pressure builds up inside the bag.

[@roywall8169]

Dude, I drive 368 miles round trip just to get a burrito from my favorite Mexican restaurant. I regularly drive 347 miles to buy blue cheese potato salad from a small diner in the middle of nowhere. I have driven 530 miles to pick up pies for family thanksgiving on occasion. 100 miles is a spur of the moment jaunt!

[@webspec]

I hope you call them to check they're open before going! 😂

[@roywall8169]

@@webspec would be foolish not to! 😉

[@joec8321]

When I lived in southern California, I drove one way 230miles to have a dinner at Las Vegas, did some gambling for couple hours and drove back to southern California for my morning class in college.... Yeah, that was wild in my younger days.

[@RaindanceMaggieDance]

My Husband and I regularly drove from Ontario to Nova Scotia and back before we moved. It is approximately a twenty two hour drive. About 2000km. Usually we would split it into two days but we have done it in one go changing up drivers every few hours. I have also driven from Ontario to British Columbia (by way of the US rather than going up around Lake Superior, that would have added at least 200km) and that took about three days. (About 4200km.) North America is massive and to be shared mostly by two countries, (I haven’t forgotten about Mexico) is hard to understand unless you live here. Come visit though! It’s beautiful!

[@m8sonmiller]

Most people are ashamed to talk about it but Colorado is actually a 600-sided polygon

[@eshnd-1]

It's called a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon!

[@iHateHandlesGetRidOfThis]

@@eshnd-1rip those with hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

[@danielmcgraw7908]

I drove tractor-trailer back and forth, across the US, for 25 years. I have some 4,500,000 miles driven. I did New Jersey, across the river from NYC, to San Francisco by the Southern route to avoid a blizzard, in 58 hours. That's somewhere around 3600 miles/5794 Km.

[@Uncle_Sterfry]

I drove from Fort Worth Texas to Anchorage Alaska, and back. 3970 miles in 5 days one way. 10 days almost 8,000 miles.

[@Jude_196]

WOW - that beat my drive from Dallas to Canada!! THAT is a SUPER-LONG DRIVE in a VERY short amount of time!!!

[@Plasmastorm73_n5evv]

@@Jude_196 Mine too from Miami to Seattle.

[@Bethylee]

I had to reread the message a few times before it actually clicked in my head that the 5 days was just one way. Lol. 5 days one way is still pretty quick. that's a pretty far drive.

[@Maybeabandaid9]

Yup, you beat my Florida to Canada.

[@seraphwithatank6535]

Wait... you made really good time... 😅

[@phyreblade]

My father lives in Arizona, which is on the other side of the country from where we live, in Virginia. Sometimes we drive out to see him. The trip typically takes us 2.5 days of driving, with around 10-12 hours per day. We see him every few years as a result. I insist he does NOT drive out to see us, mind you. He flies in, rather. The closest airport is around 40 minutes down the road from where we live.

[@mikeyrivera1977]

Hey, neighbor. Just found your channel and it has become my feelgood space. I appreciate your humor and you are very relatable. Keep up the amazing work you put in. This is just a little thank you ✌️ Cheers from across the pond, Michael Rivera Indianapolis, Indiana.

[@MoreAdamCouser]

Oh my, thank you so much, I really appreciate the is Michael!

[@BloonMasterAlch]

dang this comment deserves more attention

[@scottcline1807]

My KZbin is in dark mode so I can't read a single thing written... 😂

[@jacksonkuzmic]

Glad you are supporting your creators, -from indianapolis

[@iwannatalktosampson]

I live in San Bernardino County 😊. We are also home to the hottest place on Earth, which is Death Valley, hitting 56.7 Celsius. Where I live, which is about 3,000ft above sea level, can get to 49 Celsius in the summer, and -17.7 Celsius in the winter. 💯

[@Reelworthy]

We drove from Arizona to Louisiana in July. The sun went down when we crossed into El Paso, Texas, and we only stopped driving for gas. The sun rose while we were in Dallas (still in Texas), and we drove another 3 hours till we left Texas. 1,172 total miles in one go. And no, Alaska is an absolutely gorgeous treasure chest of forests, wildlife, glaciers, mountains, countless rivers, and unspoiled wilderness, most of which is not at all iced over.

[@punkdoggo211]

Furthest drive I've ever been on was an 18 hour drive 1,080 miles from Naples, Florida to Alexandria, Kentucky. And I have done that drive multiple times in my life.

[@Take_it_E-z]

I thought the title of the video ended in “makes Britian look like a colony”, but after the irritating redcoat ads that blocked the video’s title were closed, it turns out that America makes Britain look like a Tiny Village, smaller than a colony.

[@Jude_196]

When I was 8 years old - my family and I decided to go visit relatives in CANADA - my parents wanted to hit as MANY STATES on the east coast, as possible, on the way. We left in a turtle-shell camper and drove 2,266 miles to get from the Dallas Area....stopped off in Syracuse, New York for visit relatives, there, and then drove-on to Toronto & Ontario. THAT was a LONG DRIVE!!! Wish, now, as an adult I could TAKE that drive....but, as an 8 year old - after about an hour of "HEY - look at the trees" - or "Hey - look at that lake"....you're like: "OMG - they all look the SAME TO ME!!"....but, I'd love to do that, again, now, as an adult!! THANKS for the reactions, Adam!!

[@Fightingforthelost]

Furthest drive I've taken on my own was Buffalo, NY to Anchorage, AK. That's a total of around 4,173 miles by car. It took around 7 days. It was also one of the single most beautiful road trips I've ever been on. For being the largest U.S. state, we've got an astonishingly small population in Alaska. As for it all being a "block of ice", that's true to the far north of the state, but it's important to keep in mind that the distance from northern most point to southern most is approximately the same distance as New York City to Miami, Florida, and east to west, is approximately the same width in landmass as half the lower 48 states (when you don't count the Alleutian islands, at which point it will stretch from the Carolinas to California). It's about an 8 hour drive to the next largest city in the state (Fairbanks), and you can't drive to the state Capital (Juneau) - you need to go by plane or boat. Alaska isn't just a block of ice. We've got diverse ecosystems including the largest temperate rainforest (Tongass National Forest) in the world (about 26250 square miles, or 68,000 sq km). We've got desert (this would be the tundral desert in areas like Barrow), taiga, wetlands, boreal forests, massive numbers of lakes & rivers, sea ice, cave systems, marine and coastal areas, and more.

[@dead-claudia]

the more i read about alaska and how it operates, the less recognizable it becomes. it's just so different compared to other states. like, alaska isn't even fully incorporated into counties. alaska natives use collectively controlled corporations for self-governance rather than traditional tribal governments. oil revenue is heavily socialized in alaska and provides for a (mostly) universal basic income. just to name a few ways it's wildly different from either the lower 48 or hawaii. (also goes to show that we as a country can adapt to wildly diverging state governance systems, something that could prove valuable if dc and/or puerto rico become full fledged states.)

[@saqwana25]

i remember living in alaska. i lived in ancorage and eagle river i was among the first class of 6th grader to go to Mirror lake middle school.

[@becomewhoborntobe]

You win.

[@daviddehass6877]

@@saqwana25 Fun, I used to live in Eagle River. It's a great place.

[@saqwana25]

@@daviddehass6877 it was nice

[@Golfzilla70]

I live in northwestern North Carolina, and we vacation every now and then at the Outer Banks (the very eastern part of little ol' North Carolina) --- that's 355 mile trip that the family loads up in the morning, probably stops once to eat, and maybe another time for a rest stop, and arrives in the early to mid afternoon. Without stopping, it's about 5.5 hours. But throw in the stops, it translates to 6 or 7 hours. And we usually stay about 3 or 4 nights before returning home.

[@lupuslunari]

0:40 Wisconsinite here. If you just washed your hair and you walk outside, your hair will be frosted by the time you walk 10 feet to your car. I remember hearing that year that it became so cold that the power lines snapped. I found that out when I woke up to chilling cold because the heater went out. XD

[@Exp2Doom]

It gets so cold there and I always go in the south of Wisconsin lol

[@kathypriest95]

N. Lake County IL here...😂😂😂😂😂😂 I always marvel at Lambeau Field during football (the real kind 😂) season.

[@Capncuts]

Personal record is San Antonio, TX to Granby, CO in one shot without stopping. 1006 miles

[@Michael-G-]

Hello there! Welcome to my home town of San Antonio. I've actually done a similar drive all the way to Colorado Springs from here which is about 850 miles. Did it in two days though. My personal record though is San Antonio to Chicago which is ~1200 miles and a two day trip. I also lived in Arizona for a year and traveled all the way back to San Antinio to visit family. It's about a 1000 mile drive and I did it 4 times that year.

[@Shannon_Lacey]

Impressive! Did you have a bottle for taking care of nature? Just don’t let the state troopers drink it like the movie Dumb and Dumber! 😂

[@Capncuts]

@@Shannon_Lacey lol i did have to stop for gas and took care of that issue then😂

[@robster7787]

Just wanted to throw in perspective of gun violence in America. When you hear of a shooting in lets say Texas and you live in New England. Thats more than 1000 miles away. It’s practically in the equivalent of a different country. Even the politics are different. However because of modern news, it makes it sound like gun violence is close by.

[@uikmnhj4me]

That’s true. It’s also great perspective on why we have an electoral college. Each state has its own history, culture, resources, and sovereign government. Advocating for a direct democracy in a country this big is like saying Moscow and Paris should run all of Europe. Tyranny of the majority.

[@tonyg.1114]

@@uikmnhj4me Instead, the US with it's electoral college has Tyranny of the Minority.

[@TheFiddleFaddle]

Don't downplay it man. It's getting worse. Here in Washington, we had a kid waving a gun at my son's school just a couple weeks ago. We're getting gun violence threats everywhere. These things aren't happening states away. They're in every state now.

[@double-cheesemcqueeze6315]

​@@uikmnhj4meBut the way it is now, we have like 3 whole swing states running the country because of the electoral college. We're ruled by Pennsylvania instead.

[@billolsen4360]

@@double-cheesemcqueeze6315 Been that way in some form since the founding of The Republic

[@glahtiguy]

As a kid my dad and I made the trip out to Yellowstone a few times to go fishing. Duluth, MN to Billings, MT the first day, about 850miles. Second day drop down to Cody, WY and into the park to get to a campsite in the back country before dinner. As I've gotten older I really don't like to drive more than 600 miles in a day. I'll push it a little, every few years for a traveling event I do a trip from Lake of the Ozarks, MO to Denver, CO and back which is about 780 miles one way. The difference is the Yellowstone trips were in a Toyota Corolla, and the trips now are in a big comfy SUV with captains chairs. I can't do 500 miles in a bucket seat anymore. So yeah, road trips in the USA are a thing. Especially in the midwest... we put on the miles.

[@jq2147]

A woman I work with takes in exchange students from Europe every summer. This is in the Northeastern U.S. She always asks students what they'd like to do for fun while visiting, and some have actually said they'd like to go to Disneyland for the day. They were shocked to find out that it would take 18-20 hours of non- stop driving to get there.

[@michaelmagsanay7695]

I moved from Wellington, Florida, back to San Francisco, California. 2,981 miles in 2 days. Loved it.

[@reign4723]

You drove 15hrs+ straight with no sleep, no pee/food breaks, no leg cramps, no traffic jams along the way?… 🧢🧢🧢

[@dirtybacon93]

​​​@@reign4723probably had multiple drivers... not hard to do or comprehend. I've driven for 23hrs straight before lmao.

[@reign4723]

@@dirtybacon93 is English not your first language? Because if it wasn’t just you driving, you would’ve said something like “me and some friends” drove across the U.S. 🥴🥴 My mistake, I didn’t realize you only speak ret***, thanks for clearing it up, cupcake.

[@seraphwithatank6535]

How is that possible 😑 I don't think that's possible... Human have to sleep. You shaved 36hr off a straight trip, and traveled 1000 more miles than my road trips from Arkansas to California.

[@michaelmagsanay7695]

@@dirtybacon93 Yup, I had a buddy going to ABQ. He asked if I can drop him off there. Not a problem, just made the drive faster.

[@fromthegraysea]

Californian here. Longest car trip I’ve taken was Los Angeles to Dallas, Texas, about 1400 miles. Fun fact: the first half of that drive you cross through 3 states and the second half of that drive is only in Texas.

[@TheInfinityzeN]

Longest I did was when my duty assignment changed from Fort Lewis to Macdill AFB. With the weather I had to go south through Cali so the drive was nearly 3,200 miles. I actually shifted my day night cycle a couple hours later to help avoid traffic. Trip took five days, but I had spent years in a Cav unit and was used to driving 12+ hours a day.

[@Flowtow]

The center of Texas to South Louisiana is a twelve hour drive. To drive from south Louisiana to Alaska, well honey, that's twelve days.

[@chrissyjoy08]

The longest drive I've ever done on my own was a year and a half ago over spring break when I took a road trip from Eastern Nebraska out to the Cincinnati Zoo in Cincinnati, Ohio. I went down through Missouri and stopped in Columbia, Missouri for a comedy show, I also stopped at the St Louis Zoo to see the hippos there, since it was on my way east, I stayed in Fort Mitchell, KY for 2 nights and went to the Cincinnati Zoo both days to see the hippos (and other animals, but mostly hippos)... then I went up further northeast to Columbus, Ohio to go to another comedy tour. On my way back, I stopped right outside of Indianapolis, Indiana to have lunch with a friend, then decided against doing I-80 with all the truck traffic and instead went down and drove back through northern Missouri before taking I-29 north back to Nebraska. All together, it was about a 1,700 mile trip that I drove all by myself in the span of a week.

[@OutlandStation]

I drive Lincoln, Nebraska, to Cincinnati and back regularly. Every three weeks, I get a 4-day weekend. Friday, I head for Cincy, then Saturday and Sunday hang out with friends (renfaire, D&D, whatever) and drive back on Monday to be back at work. About a 1500- mile round trip. Some weekends, I leave Lincoln on Friday afternoon for an 8 hour drive down to Oklahoma where my wife is in optometry school and drive back to Lincoln on Sunday. 900 mile or more round trip.

[@chrissyjoy08]

@OutlandStation that's wild that you do that so frequently! Do you enjoy driving, then? I love being on road trips and I didn't mind going on this road trip by myself, but I do have a lot of anxiety driving interstate, and so part of the reason that I took the entire week plus a day was because I first of all I have places to visit but also when I was driving with the exception of one day when I drove 6.5hrs, I planned it out so I never drove more than 4.5 or 5 hours of driving time in a given day. Cuz when I drive I need to stop every hour or hour and a half just to give my brain a break and let my nervous system relax lol. Although I actually did enjoy driving on I-64 cuz there was almost zero traffic whatsoever and so that made it a lot more relaxing for me. That's the reason that coming back to Omaha I went down through Springfield and then drove through the top of Missouri (Hwy 36) instead of going up and driving I-80 back home, cuz I know I wouldn't be able to handle that truck traffic as well.

[@OutlandStation]

@chrissyjoy08 I grew up with a cross-country truck driver dad, so I'm used to it. I do a LOT of driving for work - first pipeline construction, now general industry construction, so it's just a normal thing to me now. 800 miles in a day is about my max, though. Hi from Lincoln, btw! 👋 I pop up to Omaha on weekends I'm not headed elsewhere so I can go shopping. 😁

[@LivingDeathGuy]

There is a sign near where the mexican, california, and arizona border meet that says "1,031 miles to Oregon" Edit: Furthest drive I've personally done was 6,000 ish miles over the course of 4 months, I started in san fransisco, then to chicago, then to pensacola florida, then all the way back to san diego, and finally a short 5 and a half hour drive stretch back from san diego to my home town.

[@caseknives-3643]

Mexicali or something else ?

[@LivingDeathGuy]

@@caseknives-3643 yea its right next to the Los Algodones crossing

[@stayathomecichlidmom3579]

I live in Massachusetts and drove to Clemmons NC 788 miles straight. NEVER AGAIN. I appreciate everything being so close in Massachusetts.

[@Rtificer]

Longest road trip I've done is Madison, Wisconisn, to Boston, Massachussets, around 1,750 miles. It was a whole-day endeavor, but it wasn't THAT bad. Me and my husband switched off a few times throughouthout the day and night. We were forced to drive in order to make it to a wedding, as our plane was delays multiple DAYS.

[@MV-gr9xw]

Madison to Boston's only 1100 miles or so, not sure how you managed 1750 unless you detoured down through Tennessee or something. I've done 1750 miles in one shot as a solo driver (small town in south Georgia to Winnipeg, Manitoba) and it took around 26 hours with no major breaks.

[@Rtificer]

@@MV-gr9xw You're correct. I was giving a rough estimate based on what I remembered.

[@billolsen4360]

I'd have definitely tried to bale on that wedding if my wife and I had been forced to do a grueling drive like that. "They'll get married whether we're there or not, Honey. Don't ya agree, Honey?. . . . . .Honey?"

[@drunclecookie216]

I live in Central Illinois. My parents live in Florida south of Tampa. the drive is 1,100 miles. I also went on a trip with my best friend to pick up his daughter in South west Colorado. that drive was also around 1,100 miles. for me that length takes around 18.5 hours depending on traffic. sometimes it can be as long as 19 hours or as short as 17.5 hours. also, fun fact. when travelling out west, there's some areas where you have to be mindful of how far you can go on a tank of gas. you may not find a gas station for 100 or 200 miles in some areas. Also, if you compare the US to Canada. US has 3.7 million square miles, Canada has 3.8 million square miles. US has a population of about 350 million people while Canada has a population of 39 million so it's even more sparsely populated than the states out west in the US

[@mikesixx7655]

I mean most of canada literally lives within 100 miles of the border. Once you hit the Great North Woods you are in some serious isolated who knows what lives here territory

[@richardcreurer2935]

Hi, Adam! I’ve lived in Canada my entire life and about 40+ years I was working in the province of Manitoba and met a man traveling with his Scottish father. He’d picked him up in Vancouver, BC, and had travelled 5 days get to where I met him. He told me he’d shown him the headwaters of the South Saskatchewan River in western Alberta, 2 days into their trip, and he was intending to stop for the night in The Pas, Manitoba, still a 3 hour trip from where we met, to show him the Saskatchewan River. The same river he’d seen 3 days prior, the confluence of the North and South Saskatchewan Rivers was west of The Pas, MN. He was looking forward to how shocked his dad would be when he told him that fact! 😂😂😂 His dad was already in shock at the size of Canada, and they weren’t even halfway across the country from their starting point! Not that he was intending to do so, he just wanted his dad, an avid fisherman, to experience some of the best fishing in Canada, at a few places in northern Manitoba within a few hours drive from The Pas.

[@kallandar13]

I’ve done Portland, OR to San Jose, CA: 667 miles in one go-with decent traffic that’s about 13 hours of driving, plus rest stops for food and the bathroom, so I think we did it in about 14 hrs, total. We had three drivers, though, because it’s honestly a bit soul crushing to do it by yourself.

[@LionkingCMSL]

When I was much younger, the longest drive I made in one go (non-stop except for gas, food, and potty breaks) was ~1200 miles from the Philadelphia, PA area to the southwest coast of Florida. My brother did the reverse trip in one go when I had to fly home, and we flew him down to get my car back. That trip took around 22 hours to do. More recently, I have driven from the Philadelphia area to Chicago to attend conventions, and the trip was ~800 miles and 13 hours.

[@billolsen4360]

Oh, man! You sure get poor gas mileage driving in reverse all that way.

[@Capricornrose73]

I traveled 2,600 miles from Massachusetts to Washington state during January through snow most of the way.

[@medicisdad1]

@@Capricornrose73 northern passage? Gotta suck if you hate cold as much as I do

[@Capricornrose73]

@@medicisdad1 I really don't mind the cold too much, but yeah it sucked and it took 5 days because of the weather.

[@bstutzma]

American here. The longest I’ve personally driven in a day is about 900 miles, from North Carolina to New Hampshire. Absolutely not a routine thing - I was helping a family member move - but it was pretty fun to be honest, with a specific goal, and getting to spend time with her. On an average day I might not drive at all. My children use buses to get to and from school, I work from home, and much of what I need is within walking distance or easily accessible with public transportation - not terribly uncommon in the Boston area.

[@awdeveau]

I grew up in Maine but currently live in Florida. About once a year I drive back to Maine to visit friends and family. It takes me about 24hrs of straight driving and is about 1,900-2,200 miles depending on route I take. Sometimes taking the longer way can be faster or at least similar time, just with a better driving experience as you miss some of the bigger cities and heavier traffic. Personally I prefer driving a couple hundred more miles than sitting in stop & go traffic for hours.

[@macintsoh_]

In Texas it is very common during spring break for people to drive for 2 days to Colorado, ski for 4-5 days, and drive another 2. Just under 1000 miles each way. Just to drive to Florida for the summer.

[@RevShifty]

I'm an American who drove from the White Mountains of NH, to San Francisco, CA, with an overnight stop in Flagstaff, AZ. So I've driven both the entire length of the country, and most of its height in one go. We had a conversion van and several of us driving in shifts so we did it in ~3.5 days of constant driving. And I've done it more than once, though the other trips usually took longer. I also regularly drove 900-1,200 miles one way to spend a weekend with friends. Sometimes it would be at one of their homes, other times we'd all meet up in a campground, but that was an annual tradition for the better part of a decade. It's impossible to relay how big the country is, how varied it is, or how... unique it can get until you've done something similar yourself.

[@KumSwallaHarris]

Why did u stop in flagstaff lol, that isn't even on the way to San francisco from new hampshire 😂Fake comment

[@RevShifty]

@@KumSwallaHarris Because I had friends living there and wouldn't get the chance to see them again before *they* moved back east. That's so simple that even you should be able to understand it. Sorry you just never go anywhere or do shitting, princess. We even stopped off in a real ghost town around Needles, AZ, just as we were approaching the CA border. The stop was totally unplanned, but it's not very often that you get to see wild donkeys, avocado green 1982 Subaru hatchbacks, and gas signs that cheap in an actual, honest to god ghost town. It liked like every person had just been plucked out of the town in the early 80s, it was crazy. Sometimes you just have to take the luck you're given.

[@WatcherTeacher]

16 hour drive from Montana to Las Vegas, 975 miles away stayed 2 nights, and drove back. In 80 hours I drove for 32 hours just to have a fun weekend. 1950 in total in a short span. If it was any longer would've needed a second person to switch driving with