1500 miles = ??? KM????

allisonjenna · Post by **allisonjenna** » Tue May 15, 2007 4:16 pm

RedRevolver wrote:
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...

It's funny to me now, too, but when it happened I was 16, alone on the train, and very hungry. At one point we were stopped in the middle of a field, without roads near it, and the Amtrak employees couldn't legally continue working. So we had to wait until they could get the next set of people to the train somehow before we started moving again. Oy vey.

lejaders · Post by **lejaders** » Tue May 15, 2007 4:19 pm

irenedirks wrote: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!!!

If you drive steadily, it takes about 2 days to drive across Canada.

jill2009 · Post by **jill2009** » Tue May 15, 2007 4:58 pm

irenedirks wrote: so halfway into russia is realyreallyreally farfar away!!!

It's not even close to going halfway into Russia from the Netherlands. I've driven over 1500 miles before. Jonas is way exaggerating it. It's not THAT far.

irenedirks · Post by **irenedirks** » Tue May 15, 2007 5:30 pm

jill2009 wrote:
irenedirks wrote: so halfway into russia is realyreallyreally farfar away!!!
It's not even close to going halfway into Russia from the Netherlands. I've driven over 1500 miles before. Jonas is way exaggerating it. It's not THAT far.

I looked it up on one of those routeplanners
maybe it depends on the roads??

but if you drive to istanbul that's also around 1500 miles (little over)

so maybe you're right

that seems closer

but still is pretty farfar away!!!

2400 km is still almost twice the longest drive I have ever been in
(I forgot it's from south of NL to Barcelona!! how could I have forgotten!!!)

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wow that's would be a really cool drive actually!!!

driving straight across Europe

heyiknowsyou · Post by **heyiknowsyou** » Tue May 15, 2007 10:48 pm

this thread is awesome.

and i agree with whoever said the united states is too big. ugh. although, being centrally located, it makes gives a lot of options for where to travel to.

Skunkwaffle · Post by **Skunkwaffle** » Wed May 16, 2007 1:59 am

In response to the metric/imperial system issue:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybtBSqHAmSc

sack36 · Post by **sack36** » Wed May 16, 2007 2:57 am

Haether wrote:
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.

I suspect you haven't made it out of the United States very many places. I grew up in Upstate New York, and lived as an adult in California, Washington State, Idaho and Montana. I've traveled 2/3 of the states. None of them are as different as the differences I found touring Europe and South America! Not even close.

I've always dreamed of living in Europe. Best I could manage was a 4 month sabbatical. *sigh*

nowherepixie · Post by **nowherepixie** » Wed May 16, 2007 7:03 am

Yeh I love europe. I love the fact I can jump on a train and I'm in france.

ladysolitary85 · Post by **ladysolitary85** » Wed May 16, 2007 7:12 am

nowherepixie wrote:Yeh I love europe. I love the fact I can jump on a train and I'm in france.

I so envy you Pixie

nowherepixie · Post by **nowherepixie** » Wed May 16, 2007 7:14 am

Hehehe! Yup tis cool. And I'm going to Italy for a week this summer too!
*beams*

Haether · Post by **Haether** » Wed May 16, 2007 10:00 am

I suspect you haven't made it out of the United States very many places. I grew up in Upstate New York, and lived as an adult in California, Washington State, Idaho and Montana. I've traveled 2/3 of the states. None of them are as different as the differences I found touring Europe and South America! Not even close.

I found France and Germany to be similar, at least in many attitudes if not the language. Austria and Germany might as well have been the same country.

Mexico City is a lot like Lexington Ketucky, oddly.

nowherepixie · Post by **nowherepixie** » Wed May 16, 2007 10:04 am

I think France and Germany are very different, but I agree Germnay and Austria are very similar.

cbizzle44 · Post by **cbizzle44** » Wed May 16, 2007 10:36 am

Haether wrote:
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.

i'm from around dc-ish myself... i think it's just a dc thing honestly. or maybe a city thing. or maybe a "we're-not-north-we're-not-south-OMG-IDENTITY-CRISIS" thing. i went to camp and everyone was so strangely ambivolent about politics (few liked bush, but fewer could name their senators. one didn't know that cheney was vp. and she was from america).
i dunno
the states are quite different
but the countries in europe are WAYYY different
i've been to scotland, england, spain, and italy (and an airport in france but that doesn't count). all unique.

Inigo · Post by **Inigo** » Wed May 16, 2007 11:28 am

Haether wrote:
Mexico City is a lot like Lexington Ketucky, oddly.

Being from Mexico, I find that hard to believe. Mexico City is HUGE. I highly doubt there would be slums in Lexington like there are in Mexico. But it also has some very pretty neighborhoods.

And I agree, Europe is very eclectic, you can see changes sometimes within the same country. In Western Germany for example, people are different from East Germans

Haether · Post by **Haether** » Wed May 16, 2007 11:43 am

i went to camp and everyone was so strangely ambivolent about politics

When I was working in Ohio in 2004, I was probably one of the only people in my office who VOTED. I would talk about the election at work, not even in a pro-either side way, and that made me "political" and it came up on my performance review. Seriously.
It is a DC thing, but it should be an everywhere thing.

Haether wrote:

Mexico City is a lot like Lexington Ketucky, oddly.

Being from Mexico, I find that hard to believe. Mexico City is HUGE. I highly doubt there would be slums in Lexington like there are in Mexico. But it also has some very pretty neighborhoods.

I will agree that Mexico City has slums to a greater degree than what is found in Lexington. But make no mistake, there is extreme poverty in the US, and Kentucky is one of those places.
I think the feeling is more that Lexington is a city that has a strange mix of agriculture and business...Mexico City felt that way to me too. The look of the land was very similar as well, although Mexico City is a higher elevation. I can't really describe it, but basically I lived in each city for an equal amount of time at different points of my life, and I was struck with how similar they were...even given the obvious differences.

Ok, and I'm editing this to make it sort of on-topic...at least to Lonelygirl15.
I just feel like there's a lot BDJ didn't tell us before they took this extremely long trip to Texas. I mean, yeah, Jules could have been the ceremony girl based on some random clues in her myspace/vlogs, but it just seems ridiculous to me to drive that far for a guess. Couldn't they just have had Taylor do some recon for them? Why in the world would they drive all the way to Texas just to end up half-assing a kidnapping and end up way worse than how they started, with Bree gone and all three having commited a felony.
I just feel like they know something they're not telling us.
I say we find Jonas and Daniel, kidnap them, tie them up, and barrage them for answers. It's worked so well before.