I was talking to someone from Europe before that had never been to the U.S. and had no concept of just how big it is. They couldn’t believe it when I said you could start at the bottom of California drive 18 hrs and still be in California.
These idiots live like the French aristocracy and just can’t comprehend why us unwashed masses would load up our families in the minivan and drive to something reachable in a day as opposed to just going to Monaco for a week.
I just watched a Ken Burns documentary about Lewis and Clark, the first American citizens to reach the west coast. It took them 2.5 years and ~8000 miles (13000 km) in total. That's quite mind-boggling for a European, maybe Russians can comprehend it.
I had a friend who wanted to fly from the UK to NYC, spend a day or two touring around and then casually drive down to Florida to go to DisneyWorld. He was shocked when I showed him on the map it would take ~ 18 hours of non-stop driving to make it.
I had a similar discussion once regarding the whole planes vs. trains thing and in the process blew their minds, by showing a Google Maps screenshot of driving distance Seattle - Dallas (31h) and how that would look in Europe: Lisbon (Portugal) - Warsaw (Poland) - crossing 6 countries in total.
I was talking to someone from Europe before that had never been to the U.S. and had no concept of just how big it is. They couldn’t believe it when I said you could start at the bottom of California drive 18 hrs and still be in California.
These idiots live like the French aristocracy and just can’t comprehend why us unwashed masses would load up our families in the minivan and drive to something reachable in a day as opposed to just going to Monaco for a week.
And, heck, you can drive 48 hours - two days - nonstop, from the Oregon coast to Massachusetts coast, all on the same highway.
That's nothing. You can drive for 6 hours on any highway 10 miles out from San Fran, and still not make it into San Francisco.
Traffic is a real problem in California.
You could drive 6 hours in Los Angeles and still not make it out with all the traffic.
I just watched a Ken Burns documentary about Lewis and Clark, the first American citizens to reach the west coast. It took them 2.5 years and ~8000 miles (13000 km) in total. That's quite mind-boggling for a European, maybe Russians can comprehend it.
I had a friend who wanted to fly from the UK to NYC, spend a day or two touring around and then casually drive down to Florida to go to DisneyWorld. He was shocked when I showed him on the map it would take ~ 18 hours of non-stop driving to make it.
Truly the european mind cannot even comprehend.
I was unironically asked if I went to the Vancouver Olympics games by a French friend.
I'm from Quebec. So I asked him if he went to the Sochi Olympics games in Russia, or was that too far.
''No that's way too far''
Well that's the same distance.
Oh how time flies. Now the answer would be about the Russian invasion.
I had a similar discussion once regarding the whole planes vs. trains thing and in the process blew their minds, by showing a Google Maps screenshot of driving distance Seattle - Dallas (31h) and how that would look in Europe: Lisbon (Portugal) - Warsaw (Poland) - crossing 6 countries in total.