1500 miles = ??? KM????

irenedirks · Post by **irenedirks** » Tue May 15, 2007 1:00 pm

how many kilometers are 1500 miles???

sorry but I can't think in miles...

Inigo · Post by **Inigo** » Tue May 15, 2007 1:03 pm

2415 Km

1 Mile equals 1600 Metres, or 1.6 Kilometrers.

irenedirks · Post by **irenedirks** » Tue May 15, 2007 1:56 pm

oh thank

yes I just looked it up myself

1 mile = 1,6093km

so 1500 miles = 2413,95 km

and I also found another cool fact

the border around my country (The Netherlands) is 1027 km

so making the distance of DBJ would be like walking around my country for 2,35 times!!!

and it's also more than driving from amsterdam to moscow because that's only 2014 km

so that really is a LOT!!!!

USA is so much bigger than I can understand

the longest drive I ever made was to vienna and that took all day

and the longest trainride was to Prague and that took an afternoon and full night

so halfway into russia is realyreallyreally farfar away!!!

sack36 · Post by **sack36** » Tue May 15, 2007 2:11 pm

It takes three days to travel from california to new york if you don't stop for sleep and food. I've done this.

It takes a full week to travel from new york to california if you do stop for sleep and food. I've done this too.

It takes 18 hours to drive from tacoma, washington to where Jonas lives.

It takes 24 hours to drive from tacoma to where the Creators live.

It takes 2 1/2 days to go from where jonas lives to where julie lives.

I've done all these, too. But here's the kicker: you can't drive from one end of the united states to the other! Hawaii is our farthest state and that's an island. Guam is our farthest territory and that's nearly around the globe from Main, the state farthest away from it!

nowherepixie · Post by **nowherepixie** » Tue May 15, 2007 2:15 pm

We drove from London to Southern Italy once and it took two days. I thought that was immense.
America is mahoosive!

RedRevolver · Post by **RedRevolver** » Tue May 15, 2007 2:16 pm

You didn't sleep for 3 days whilst driving?! That's pretty dangerous.

Uhhhh, and you're right. But I prefer to think in miles. Imperial, FTW.

Haha.

nowherepixie · Post by **nowherepixie** » Tue May 15, 2007 2:21 pm

It was weird, at school we are taught in cm km etc and kg and g but everything, eg road signs are in miles.

This country makes no sense!

allisonjenna · Post by **allisonjenna** » Tue May 15, 2007 2:42 pm

sack36 wrote:
It takes 18 hours to drive from tacoma, washington to where Jonas lives.

...it only took me 14 hours to drive from Federal Way to SF, and that's with stopping for food and all that.

Inigo · Post by **Inigo** » Tue May 15, 2007 2:58 pm

over 24 hours by Train from San Francisco to Seattle... longest single trip of my life. But extremely cool.

RedRevolver · Post by **RedRevolver** » Tue May 15, 2007 2:59 pm

nowherepixie wrote:It was weird, at school we are taught in cm km etc and kg and g but everything, eg road signs are in miles.

This country makes no sense!

Indeed it don't!

I know, it is kind of weird thinking about it.

But most of my maths teachers in the past have commented on it, and how they don't really understand why it isn't taught as one whole, instead of bits, but that it doesn't really matter.

irenedirks · Post by **irenedirks** » Tue May 15, 2007 3:55 pm

I remember when I was in Cuba there were a lot of people from Canada and this woman was telling about how she had to drive for 8 hours to go to an airport where she took a plane to fly to another airport where another plane took her to Cuba

I bursted out 8 HOURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that´s like driving to Paris!!!!! (and back almost!!!)

(it took me only 14 hours in total!!!)

that´s almost three times the whole time it takes to drive trough the Netherlands

I could take the train to amsterdam almost 6 times!!!!

so like I said for me distances are so weird comparing to other countries

there are lakes as big as NL in Canada

there is a wildlife park as big as NL in south africa

but on the other hand living in Europe is kind of special

in Australia for example you can drivedrivedrive for hours and hours and you're still in the same country same scenery and same kind of people

and here you drive for a few hours and it's a different country , language, people history landscape

everything is different

so that's rather nice actually

I can never quite understand why a lot of european people boast all the time of how far they have travelled whilst they haven't seen hardly anything in Europe at all!!!

maybe it's the same for Americans

always saying they're going to travel through europe and never been outside their own state!!! (or hardly)

irenedirks · Post by **irenedirks** » Tue May 15, 2007 4:01 pm

sack36 wrote: I've done all these, too. But here's the kicker: you can't drive from one end of the united states to the other! Hawaii is our farthest state and that's an island. Guam is our farthest territory and that's nearly around the globe from Main, the state farthest away from it!

ha that's a cool fact!!!

well for NL that's also true you can't drive to Aruba or the Antill's!!
(but that's not exactly called the same country, just the same kingdom)

Haether · Post by **Haether** » Tue May 15, 2007 4:03 pm

and here you drive for a few hours and it's a different country , language, people history landscape

Yeah, driving through the US is almost the same experience. I grew up in Virginia (near Washington, DC) and went to college in Ohio. It was like moving to another country...they practically speak another language (and a lot slower, dammit). The west coast and the east coast are amazingly different.

allisonjenna · Post by **allisonjenna** » Tue May 15, 2007 4:11 pm

Inigo wrote:over 24 hours by Train from San Francisco to Seattle... longest single trip of my life. But extremely cool.

Haha. Yea, I went from where I live now (Central coast) to Seattle by train... it was supposed to be 35 hours...

it ended up being 50 hours.
Two derailments and a bomb threat

RedRevolver · Post by **RedRevolver** » Tue May 15, 2007 4:13 pm

allisonjenna wrote:
Inigo wrote:over 24 hours by Train from San Francisco to Seattle... longest single trip of my life. But extremely cool.
Haha. Yea, I went from where I live now (Central coast) to Seattle by train... it was supposed to be 35 hours...

it ended up being 50 hours.
Two derailments and a bomb threat

I know it shouldn't have, but that made me laugh...