'Dirty Girls'
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Heh. In high school, one year one of my friends was an exchange student from Germany. I mentioned one day at lunch how the summer before, I'd gone on a trip to Wyoming (from Indiana) that involved driving for 36 hours straight. She looked at me, and said "If I drove for 36 hours straight, I'd fall off the continent!"
technically, I suppose if she'd driven toward Russia/Chinawards, she wouldn't have, but still
Jim, I live in Austin, which is Center-East of Texas. Last week, we drove to Big Bend, which is West-South, near Mexico but roughly due West of Austin. All in all, the drive is near eight hours, and we never left Texas.
moonlit, did you see yesterday's Thomas Friedman column? He's got a theory on reordering of the world that he plays from a focus on NATO.
(and I'm loving reading your posts!)
I don't respond to moonlit's postings because they're so comprehensive, but I really enjoy reading them.
And what, she said plaintively, is the meaning of 'diachronic'?
Continuing to mess with Jim's head: To drive from Montauk, New York to Niagara, New York in itself takes ten hours. And that's if you don't hit traffic or stop.
I can never ever get my head around the size of the USA. As far as I'm concerned the 2 coasts are about 10 hours drive apart. Any further than that is, to my mind, Abroad.
Yeah, I had some Dutch guys staying with me once. They had just under a week free before they had to go home, so they planned to rent a Suburban and drive to California and back. Heh.
They still did rent the Suburban, though, and spent every possible minute in it.
Driving from home to my university (which I've never actually done, but I know people who have) is something like 25 hours driving time, not counting rest stops. And that's only like halfway across the country.
If I drive 19 hours from NC, I get to Houston. That's 19 hours at a likely average of 60 mph (100kmh) roughly.
I used to do it on long breaks in school. Except Houston was just the first stop. Then it was another 10ish hours to where my parents live in NM.
BTW, when the hell did "cowboy" become a synonym for homicidal tactless maniac? Sheesh.
Maybe when the U.S. media bought into the lie that Bush was a cowboy instead of a cheerleader?
Philadelphia to Daytona Beach is the longest nonstop road trip I've done. 20 hours, to go straight down I-95 over I guess about 2/3 to 3/4 of the East Coast.
We have a running joke with our friends in Boston where they chastise us for being just down the road, but never coming to see them. (I-90 begins in Boston and ends in Seattle.) Sometimes I'll drive by the spot where I-90 connects to I-5 and wish I could just get on the road and drive to Boston for the hell of it. I think we decided it'd take four days if you didn't stop much.