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#26516872 - 03/04/20 05:02 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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American's have a completely different mindset from UK'ns.
American's go on road trips, to find themselves/American Dream.
That would be quite preposterous in the UK.
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Re: USA UK. [Re: Litto]
#26517106 - 03/04/20 06:42 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Why?...
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Re: USA UK. [Re: Litto]
#26517118 - 03/04/20 06:46 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Surely there are at least some people from the UK who take road trips in their own country or elsewhere in Europe.
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Re: USA UK. [Re: psi]
#26517133 - 03/04/20 06:50 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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psi said: Surely there are at least some people from the UK who take road trips in their own country...
home in time for tea tho
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Google says it's 676 miles (1088 km) if you drive from London to Thurso in northern Scotland. I'd say that qualifies as a proper road trip.
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Re: USA UK. [Re: psi]
#26517189 - 03/04/20 07:15 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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psi said: Google says it's 676 miles (1088 km) if you drive from London to Thurso in northern Scotland. I'd say that qualifies as a proper road trip.
yeah, can respect there is the capacity for it and the real determining factor is whether or not there is enough variability and interest to the towns along the way to warrant stops that is, arguably, why the most recent Pokémon title has the player travel from a small town in Scotland down to London by a combination of train and foot and can package it as an adventure
tho would not consider 1000 km to be a proper road trip this is likely a similair sentiment appearing tho grew up in the prairies -- total travel of about 400 km on the highway was the minimum travel time to do a shopping trip at a Future Shop or to visit a major theater that would play films on their opening day it could take two hours to get across the city of Montréal to a specific shop tho and likely there are commutes within London that take more than 20 minutes
but if you grow up spending a lot of time travelling fairly long distances the very idea of the comparatively minute size of some European countries really shows up
google wants me to do a trip from Winnipeg to Toronto -- the capitals of two adjacent provinces within one nation at 2234 kilometers tho they also advise going through like 4-5 different states as opposed to travelling via Thunder Bay, so who knows 
Winnipeg to Regina (capitals travelling the other way) is only 570 kilometers tho but then it is another 780 to go from Regina to Edmonton
to me it's not a real road trip unless there has to be a stop to sleep along the way and my trip in my teens from Calgary to small town Saskatchewan was 920 kilometers and was done in a day it was a "road trip" because it was a day of travel to Calgary, a day of concert, a day of travel back
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also, regarding "mindset" that the OP refers to think there is also more of a communal sentiment developed by travelling such distances through a decent train network -- relatively certain a person from Thurso going to London on a three day concert trip would take the commute by train rather than loading up into a car (potentially with friends) as promoted by the differently developed infrastructure in the US that really emphasises individualist travel via car
in Canada, have only ever travelled by the inefficient Via rail once because everyone in my life owns a vehicle
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I lol'ed
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Whores Wood
Apparently meeting up with randos for sex in parks ("dogging") is kind of a big thing in the UK. It's a thing here too but just for gay sex.
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Re: USA UK. [Re: zZZz]
#26518183 - 03/05/20 08:23 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Because it is bloody expensive and the roads here are often gridlocked. I just had a look at todays fuel prices, £116.7p a Litre. I don't know what you peeps that side of the water pay, but I'm guessing it's a fair bit cheaper. Ok, I had to look:
Is petrol cheaper in UK or USA? 
"Over the past 2½ years diesel prices in the States are on average 54% lower than they are in the UK and petrol prices are on average 43% lower in the US. The reason it is so much cheaper to fill up in the States is they pay less than a ¼ of the tax we pay on our fuel".
It would be probably be cheaper to fly from Thurso to London than to go by car or train. Gotta pay for all those hospitals somehow.
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It's 2.00-3.00 or more a gallon here in CO.
@Tantrika--I grew up in Texas, I know prairies, lol. (and the people that reside there)
Here in CO people bitch if they have to drive over 3 miles to go ANYWHERE! I am used to driving 20 miles a day or more just to have fun in Texas. Not including driving to work etc...
@Psi--almost all the parks here in the USA are called "pickle parks" lol! Gay men seem to flock to these for the adventure of anonymous gay sex. I never got it, seems WAY too scary to me, plus I like a bit of banter and fun. I go for the mind and eyes 1st, plus chubby, lol.
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Not much point using the size of a country to limit the length of a road trip, specially when the ferry (or car train) to France only takes an hour.
A road trip is only limited by your imagination. Coast to coast on green lanes in the UK can take 4 days with wild camping along the way. Green Lanes are historic old unsurfaced drovers tracks, farm tracks, roman roads, tidal roads, you need a half decent 4x4 and a lot of research tho.
Did the same thing across the French Alps and Spanish Pyrenees few yrs back, epic trip.
Still slightly green with envy of the US/Canada off road/Overland scence tho!
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Re: USA UK. [Re: Sandala]
#26518264 - 03/05/20 09:36 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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I took a road trip from Oklahoma, to Las Vegas, to San Francisco, then all the way up hwy 101 to Vancouver and whistler. Then all the way back down through WA, Seattle and some other places, was about 2-4 week road trip and involved tent camping in parks, on islands, and hotels. It's the most epic road trip I ever took. Don't know if I'll ever do that again. Back in 2007, summer.
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tyrannicalrex said: @Psi--almost all the parks here in the USA are called "pickle parks" lol! Gay men seem to flock to these for the adventure of anonymous gay sex. I never got it, seems WAY too scary to me, plus I like a bit of banter and fun. I go for the mind and eyes 1st, plus chubby, lol.
I found it intriguing that it was a thing for straight sex too in some places, women generally seem to be a lot more wary of that kind of stuff. Not that I would actually partake.
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Re: USA UK. [Re: psi]
#26518296 - 03/05/20 10:00 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Glory hole, no thank you!. I got two words that scare the crap outta me--Hat pin! Not to mention communicable diseases, some for life!
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tyrannicalrex said: I took a road trip from Oklahoma, to Las Vegas, to San Francisco, then all the way up hwy 101 to Vancouver and whistler. Then all the way back down through WA, Seattle and some other places, was about 2-4 week road trip and involved tent camping in parks, on islands, and hotels. It's the most epic road trip I ever took. Don't know if I'll ever do that again. Back in 2007, summer.
about 2-4 weeks? Like you can't remember weather it was 2 or 4 weeks 
you took the 'trip' part a bit too seriously 
sounds epic tho I prefer a little less tarmac/people/civilisation in my road trips tbh check out Expedition Overland on youtube, Clay and the crew have done some epic trips across America/Canada/TransAm
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Re: USA UK. [Re: Sandala]
#26518332 - 03/05/20 10:23 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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LOL, it was 13 years ago, A LOT has happened since then, that person I went with is an ex for 5 years now, there was a terrible fight on the trip, I was trapped in the car/on the road by that maniacal head game playing sonofabitch, and he waited until the desert of Nevada to start in on me, soooo, yeah, I can't really remember how long the trip actually was. It was an epic one for sure!
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deucedbi9 said: ... It would be probably be cheaper to fly from Thurso to London than to go by car or train. Gotta pay for all those hospitals somehow.
This is even more mind-boggling to me than the friendly prospect of a train in the example of my 3 day concert trip it would have taken me a 200km trip to get to an airport instead
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tyrannicalrex said: It's 2.00-3.00 or more a gallon here in CO.
@Tantrika--I grew up in Texas, I know prairies, lol. (and the people that reside there)
Here in CO people bitch if they have to drive over 3 miles to go ANYWHERE! I am used to driving 20 miles a day or more just to have fun in Texas. Not including driving to work etc... ...
Yeah, for the first 13 or so years of my life lived in a small town on the Saskatchewan/North Dakota border
it was a 40 km drive on the highway (so really only half an hourish going at 100 km per hour) to get groceries and my mother made that as a multi-trip commute 5 days a week for work as well
tho ironically, that meant a trip just to get groceries took around an hour of time and there were points for me living in Montréal where shopping for groceries would take the same span of time but only really be travelling 1/10th of the distance relativity, or something like that
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tyrannicalrex said: LOL, it was 13 years ago, A LOT has happened since then, that person I went with is an ex for 5 years now, there was a terrible fight on the trip, I was trapped in the car/on the road by that maniacal head game playing sonofabitch, and he waited until the desert of Nevada to start in on me, soooo, yeah, I can't really remember how long the trip actually was. It was an epic one for sure!
Yeah who you take with can make all the difference, I planned a month trip through Europe into Morocco and the Western Sahara, but when the wrong people signed up I dropped out, I'd been on weeked trips with em, no way was I going through all that with complete dickwads
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Re: USA UK. [Re: Sandala]
#26519107 - 03/05/20 04:56 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Good move! I have someone now I'd do it again with.
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