This is meaningless if it drives back on the same roads. "You can drive for 30 hours on a roundabout in Blackburn, Lancashire without ever leaving the roundabout in Blackburn, Lancashire"
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Yeah I can drive for 30 hours and still be in my hometown, in fact, I can spend my entire life there. Crazy
I shudder at the thought of 30 hours in Blackburn.
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I can drive around my block for 30 hours and still be on my block! It's crazy!
It takes 23 hours and 2000 km to drive from the southernmost point in sweden to Abisko in the north.
A full loop through Malmö-Kalmar-Stockholm-Luleå-Abisko-Östersund-Göteborg-Malmö takes over 2 days and over 4000 km.
Europe is not small.
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I don't really think this counts, since he doubles back around at a point, I mean, if you're allowed to do that, you can drive for 30 hours almost anywhere, and still be in the same area.
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You can do this in WA, but without looping back
Damn they even got a Denmark down under, poor saps
On these kinds of roads that go across Australia, are they well maintained? I'm guessing it's not like a highway the whole way. Are there frequent enough towns, petrol stations etc.? How easily can you end up stranded in the middle of nowhere?
Going through some of those parts, chances are some of them are probably unsealed - though I suspect google maps will always generally try to pick the sealed roads.
As for petrol stations... Yeah keep a few Jerrys with you, just in case, as well as a spare full size tire or two (space savers are a bad idea in the outback) as well as a toolbox, with basic tools, hose clamps, etc. and plenty of drinking water/snacks. Maybe even a few packed lunches.
The nullaboar (Latin for "no tree") plains along the coast of south/western Australia are well known for having the one long, straight, featureless Eyre highway with a whole lot of space Between petrol stations. The most dangerous thing about those roads is fatigue from looking at the constant unchanging scenery for hours at a time. The second is running out of fuel or breaking down - where you gotta hope you've got the shit to fix stuff, because it's highly unlikely you'll see a friend on the road for at least an hour or two, if not longer.
It's so long that there are three designated airstrips on the highway designed for emergency landings and air ambulances (royal flying doctor service FTW - seriously, those guys deserve all the praise, true heros)
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Yep I heard some parts will be like 1000km without stations and stuff like that so you need to be well prepared with extra gas etc.
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Dude, you can drive 30 hours in London and still be in London.
Traffic that bad, huh?
I believe a tourist once managed that on the M25. Apparently the idea of a looping motorway can be a bit beyond some.
While London traffic can be frustrating, it's not actually that bad. At least compared to a lot of American cities, let alone somewhere like Mexico city.
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I can drive in my neighbourhood for 40 hours and still be in my neighbourhood. The street forms a loop.
Driving around Germany is probanly a similar distance, it just doesn't take as long.
Best I got without doing any double takes was Flensburg - Düsseldorf - Freiburg - Friedrichshafen - Deggendorf - Dresden - Rostock - Kiel, for a total of about 28 hrs and approx 2,559 km (~1,500 miles).
https://maps.app.goo.gl/6XqbfMMPjmMHWQpJ8
Might be able to eke out those extra 200 miles by including Saarbrücken.
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It doesn't blow our mind at all. We couldn't give a fuck. Its a pointless statement.
What blows mind is that you leave London drive three hours in any direction and everyone has a unique accent.
Not really because if you drive 3 hours away from London you're only about half a mile from London.
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I live in a 274 year old building with original stained glass windows. The US mind cannot comprehend this.
I live on land 200 million years old. The human mind cannot comprehend that.
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This MF gonna lose their mind when they find out about roundabouts!
I went to Milton Keynes in 2009, and I still haven't stopped driving yet
If you just drive back and forth and in circles you can do this in Luxembourg, too, I ain't impressed
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I can also drive 30 h around in my driveway.
You could drive in a "straight line" across Ukraine for 23 hours...
Sure, but in Europe you can drive for 30 hours passing from a metropolitan area to another. You probably don't know what I mean but the population of london is slightly less than the entire population of michigan. Italy alone has a population that is one fifth of the ENTIRE US.
So Italy, a mid-sized European country, has a population 1/5 the size of the United States? Why is that .. surprising?
I guess what they mean is the following:
Italy is about the size of michigan (300vs250km²) but has about 6 times the population (58Mio vs 10Mio). The population density of Italy is 5 times as high.
Source wolframalpha:
Size and population
Population density
Add in Poland, add in Germany, and you are already at 3/5. France and UK, and you beat US. Total, Europe has 750mln people, with similar area.
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Who the fuck drives Michigan but skips the Leelanau Peninsula and the coastal stretch between it and the Mackinac? See also: Who the fuck drives the entirety of the Lake Huron coastline but skips the majority of Lake Michigan's?
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I can go around in circles and never leave my home.
Actually, they were trying to drive across their suburban neighbourhood, but the way streets are built it takes 30 hours to go around it 🤡
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1400 miles is roughly the Autobahn in northrhine Westphalia I Guess you could drive aimlessly around those if that's your thing
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In California, depending on traffic, it can take 2 hours to move 20 feet. Anyone out East ever just feel like you'd reach your destination faster by just getting out and walking?
Once while driving through LAX, the traffic was bad enough that we were traveling side by side with a broken down car that two dudes were pushing. They even had plenty of opportunities to rest.
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You can drive 30 years in Muhosransk and still be in Muhosransk
You can drive your whole life in Singapore and you'll still be in Singapore.
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