A leisurely trip

Their transportation:

I sadly see this all the time unironically. Met a German family who arrived in North Carolina with plans to go to Disney Land. Not World. Land

"Isn't California just on the other side of the country?"

Yeah it is

How do people not check driving times in this modern age?

We had family visit from the UK many years ago. They said after they visited Niagara Falls, they wanted to "pop over" to Prince Edward Island to see Anne of Green Gables. That is an 18h drive if you don't even stop to pee. They finally realized how big Canada really is when somebody showed them a map of England superimposed on a map of Canada.

Haha yes!

I remember travelling to family in Canada and asking if we could go to Disneyland. In Florida.

Disney Land is in California.
World is in Florida
- Shows what my 12 year old mind knows.

Europeans: METRIC MAKES EVERY MEASUREMENT COMPREHENDABLE

ALSO EUROPEANS:

Shout out the 1 hour 45 minute drive from JFK to just over the bridge into Jersey

Lmao cycling is faster according to Google
Holy crap, just shoot me out a cannon, I'll get there sooner or die, either is preferable
Fly into Newark. Nobody in nj uses JFK or laguardia.
- In OP’s image they “land” in NYC and drive to Miami. You would drive the route I posted to leave NYC.

It takes like a week to drive from NY to CA.

Realistically 4 days with ~12 hour drives will get you there including lunch and gas stops.
Something like NY - Toledo - Omaha - SLC - SF

upvote for Gulf of Mexico

Ahem, it's the Gulf of America. Please get your facts right
- why is this being downvoted, have y'all never heard of sarcasm?
- Let's call it the gulf of middle earth
- Only if marlago is designated americas rectum.

Or just save being put in an ICE facility and go visit Canada and not be put in an ICE facility.

Edit typo

In America, 100 years is a long time
In Europe, 100 miles is a long distance

Tf is a mile, bruv? Don't come in 'ere with these nonsensical made up freedom units
- Miles originated in Britain, so talk to them about their made-up nonsense.
  At least they were eventually willing to give up the imperial system. I still don't understand why Americans never got on board with metric; it's so much easier.
- If I remember my conversions right then a mile is 5280 kilometers. I hope that helps explain why Europeans would fear such a distance!

My brother went to college in upstate NY in the 80’s and made friends with a girl who was born & raised in Manhattan. One weekend, in all seriousness, she suggested taking the subway to the Grand Canyon.

Vegas sucks though.

Don't do it, America sucks right now.

The dream could be realized if America actually had high speed rail, but that would require investing our taxes into real infrastructure instead of state-sponsored terrorism.

Yeah no, even a jet couldn't get those travel times. Or when people plus them.

Ah, a meme from a simpler time. Now the first thing I think of is how long the stay in Guantanamo Bay will be.

Out of curiosity, I put the route in Google Maps to see how long each leg would take. 20 hrs., 37 hrs., 5 hrs.

You really can't experience everything if has to offer in just one day. I wish tourists could better understand.
If they make it all the way noon, I'd be surprised. Make a stop in Alligator Auschwitz.

Had a friend from SE Asia that wanted to visit me in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She found a flight to Canada alright. To VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA. She asked if I could come pick her up if I wasn't too busy.

Lol.
Sure, I'll be there in 3 days, you'll probably want to get some food while you wait.
- The driver will need a nap at the end. I think it can be 72 hours if one doesn't sleep.
- 3? I had a few crewmates cross the country in about 5 and they said that was a gruelling task that they should have slowed down for.

Multiply those time estimates by about 20.

A 2 hour drive in Miami will get you to…north Miami

And 50$ in tolls lol

Whilst in all about road trips this fool better be driving at 1500mph to make these times

Mach 2 is very reasonable. Gillette makes a Mach 3.
What, your car doesn't do mach 3?

Why not just take the High Speed Rail and get there in 45 minutes instead?

US High Speed Rail:
- Hey now, don't knock the Big Boy. He could reach 80mph, that's much faster than most of our rail in the US.
- When this baby hits 88Mph, you’re gonna see some serious shit
idk if I want to ride a train that goes at Mach 2.3 personally.
- I'll wait until it's proven, then I'll go find a g suit.
- All things serve the beam.
Their low-soeed can't even stay on the rails. I think it may be some time before the once masters of rail enter the current century.
I looked at taking a train from Albuquerque to Denver for a concert, the trip takes 2-3 days and goes from Albuquerque toto Chicago to Denver and one way cost more than a round trip flight. For reference, it is a 7ish hour drive.
- Their long hauls are definitely more vacation based, where the ride is part of the journey - and if you're not into that then I get how you feel. Amtrak has been doing a great job at refocusing on corridors. The east coast obviously, then they're working hard on a few key ones like:
  Minneapolis to Chicago
  Portland-Seattle-Vancouver
  California corridor
  Eventually, here's hoping, the Frontrange: Pueblo-Colorado Springs-Denver-Fort Collins-Cheyenne.
  Those are all shorter trips that don't make much sense to fly with how short it is, and with a few daily trips makes traveling between those cities much easier. Personally those are much better usages of Amtrak's time. I've taken the Portland-Seattle-Vancouver one multiple times and it's so much nicer than driving - but it's max 4 hours.
- I live near SLC and go get to San Francisco is about 18 hours, and that's a straight shot. Coach costs about $120, each way, which is about the same price as a non-budget airline. There's only one train each day and it runs from midnight to about 6PM the next day.
  By car it's about 11 hours and about 2 hours by airplane.
  So it's:
  slower
  not cheaper, perhaps more expensive if you don't mind budget flights
  less flexible - one train/day in most cases
  There are tons of places I just can't get to, like Las Vegas.
  If I was retired or something when spending more time was totally fine, I'd consider taking the train. But as it stands, it's just not a practical option unless the train is the destination.
are you in the same school as this picard maneuver guy?

could have this if politicians didn't fight high speed rail so much

With the distances provided, flying would be faster than high speed rail. Even if there was a maglev train from NYC to Miami, I think the flight would still be faster unless there were major delays flying out.
I'm a fan of high speed rail too, but I also wonder if it's ever going to be comparable to flying for long distances like this.
Like, even traveling in a direct line on a plane (which averages 600mph, or 2-3x the average speed of high speed rail), it still takes 6 hours from NYC to LA.
- Anything under about 500 km is better by train. While the train is slower once you count getting to and from the airport and in is l and if the plane, you're still faster overall. Above that the plane will usually be faster. If you take the environmental cost into account, the train always wins.
- There's a direct train from Beijing to Kunming that's 11 hours, 1700 miles.
  NYC to LA would be ~50% more, so you could do a high-speed sleeper.
  But no, at that distance, flying is probably better.
- Honestly, if trains were 1/3 as fast as planes, I'd take them.
  My family lives about 800 miles away (by car, less as the crow flies), which takes about 14 hours by car, 2.5 hours by plane, and 45 hours by train (36 moving time). To be fair, it covers more ground (almost 2x at ~1400 miles), but driving that same roite would only be ~22 hours. To make up for the extra distance, the train would need to go about twice the speed, so 120-150mph, to match driving, which is completely feasible. If I could do that trip via train in one day, I'd do it vs taking the plane.
  I don't think expecting trains to go 2-3x the speed of cars is unreasonable. I'd still probably take an airplane for longer trips, but anything within 1k miles or so should be reasonable to do by rail.
- As soon as Elon Musk builds his Hyperloop, we'll be traveling from NYC to LA in just a few hours. /s
- There is a point where planes become the better choice and transcontinental is definitely one of them.
If only the train autistic people had took over the country instead of the nazi ones.
Those trains would have to be supersonic though, to do it all in one day.
You'd need a train going 1100mph (3x faster than the fastest current train) to make Miami to Las Vegas in 2 hours, but sure.
- For reference that's like 1.5 times the speed of sound at sea level.

So, back in 2009, I lived in a tour bus touring with big acts like Linkin Park, Pearl Jam and guys like that. Well, we did a little stint with Madonna and we went from LA, straight to NYC, down to Miami and straight back to LA in I think about a week. It was one of the most brutal on road experiences I've ever had to endure for 4 shows. I was on a really sweet fully decked out tour bus too, so it was the best case scenario. It gave me a new appreciation for how motherfucking vast my country is. However, I would NOT recommend the experience.

I did get to meet Spike Lee and Chris Cornell in Miami tho and even had birthday cake with Justin Timberlake while in NYC. It was his birthday and he was doing a music thing inside our bus. He sat right next to me at the front of the bus and we talked about Pink Floyd. Super nice guy. It was a pretty wild week.

Seattle's music scene had to invent its own heroes because nobody bothered crossing the Rockies for less than Los Angeles.
You have had an interesting life.
- It's true. Im 40 now but i never had kids and chased my dreams from 14 to 35. I dont tell any stories irl very much anymore because some people think I'm showing out or making shit up. Examples:
  Had coffee with Pierce Broznan... at his house in Malibu. Wild story.
  Avengers Endgame spoiler crew sound guy. Wild story.
  I was at Derek Rose's house, doing an interview when he got traded from the Bulls the first time. Wild story. And so much other random shit like that.

When I was in college at Eastern New Mexico, which is about 45 minutes west of Amarillo Texas, a couple friends, both from New England, had the bright idea of driving down to the gulf over a 4 day weekend.

I cautioned them against the idea, trying to explain Texas was bigger than they could imagine. Three hours into the trip we got a motel room in some hole in the wall town and went back to school the next morning.

What? It takes 24 hours to drive from the Canadian border to Mexico border. Texas is about 770 miles at its widest, that’s a breezy 10-12 hour drive doing the speed limit or just over.
- Yeah so nearly half their weekend driving....through Texas. One of the most boring places to drive through.
- You're assuming no traffic in major cities. I've gone from close to the Louisiana border to new Mexico and it took about 16 hours.
- I went on a cross Canada car drive in the early 2000s. We left from Sudbury Ontario to make it to the west coast in BC. We took our time, sight seeing and making many stops along the way. Ten days later we made it to Vancouver.
  The best part was that on our sixth day, we ran into a friend in Medicine Hat, Alberta. He had left Kapuskasing, Ontario the day before and was expecting to make it to Vancouver in about 60 hours with non stop driving. His eyes were so blood shot and he was literally shaking from all the caffeine drinks, pills and coffee he had been taking. He had some strangers with him that he had picked up as hitch hikers and he said they were keeping him awake.
  We worried about him the whole time but he called us two days later to say he made it. We caught up with him three days later.
I live in Arkansas and went on vacation to South Padre Island a few years ago. It's a 16 hour drive one way.
- I grew up near Seattle and now live near Salt Lake City. The drive is 14 hours one way and I've done that trip at least a dozen times.

WTH would you go all the way to miami? Stop in orlando, get some disney on and leave save 6 hours.

And here in the comments you will read once again the problem of USA about railways. Take some popcorn.

lol the problem with America is fascism
- Which funny enough is part of the reason they don't have trains. Some dickhead fascist billionaire charmed the simple brained with magic transportation, so they wouldn't invest in high speed rail anymore. Go figure
- Still USA citizens won't and can't do anything, because they never do.
Sensible Americans (a vanishing breed, but still) agree that high speed rail is both doable and practical across the US.

I like everything about this except the "being in the USA" part.

I would skip Florida. You won't miss much.

Beg to differ. Easily one of the best vacations Ive ever been on. The cubans really made the best coffee. Just like Gabriel Iglesias said.
What are you talking about?
Mugging followed by incarceration and deportation is a great travel story!
- "How was your holiday in America?"
  "Good until the end. I didn't expect flights from Uganda to Munich to have so many layovers."
- Well, getting mugged in Florida is different than in NYC.
The only subtropical part of the US?
It's uniqueness alone makes Florida special.
- You do know Hawaii is part of the united states, correct?
- I mean, sure if you're into repressive heat and humidity 10 months out of the year, clouds of potentially deadly but always annoying mosquitoes, ticks that inflict strange lifelong disabilities, sand everywhere imaginable and dreary mold literally growing on everything - it's fucking great!
i mean they're already going to la so just skip florida and go to the far superior disneyland.
- Florida's parks are way better than California's, and it's not even close...

This gotta be from mapporncirclejerk, right? Right?

Oh boy, someone is about to have a lesson in scale.

A guy I work with is in Germany. He came to the US for a work meeting. He intended to stay in the US for another week and a half, with plans to rent a car and drive ... basically this route. With all sorts of sightseeing and tourist stops along the way.
Suffice it to say that he did not.

Itinerary Anarchy

Why not pop over and see Montana while you're here?

Just take a quick drive to Alaska too
- Don't miss out on Hawaii! It's just a short ferry ride away.