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If it took you X hours to get somewhere, for how many hours would it feel worth it to stay at bare minimum?

Would you want to stay for at least X hours? 2X? 4X? Something else?

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  • For travel I usually use as a rule of thumb, that you need to stay the same number of days as there were hours in the flight to get there. So for example a quick two hour hop lends itself nicely to a weekend getaway, whereas a transcontinental flight implies staying a week or two. This tends to be advantageous anyway, for jet lag purposes.

  • I would want to stay for as long as I enjoyed it and no longer, no matter how long it took to get there.

  • For a one night stand 1/4x. I guess it really depends on the action if you now what I mean.

  • X/2+7 is like the 80-20 rule: it fits 80% of the time.

    Given a travel time of X, half that time plus 7 more hours seems reasonable, until it isn't. 1 hour? Full day. 2 hours? Also a full day. 8 hours? Now were talking 2 days with an overnight expense and 80% per diem.

    Math. It works.

    • Do you mind explaining a little more? How do you get two days from 8 hours (8/2 + 7 = only 11 hours not 48)?

      Edit: Oh, because nobody's spending 8 hours traveling and then 11 hours at the place and then going back home without staying overnight.

    • Isn't that also the equation for finding your youngest possible date? I'm 27 and according to that my lower limit is 20.5.

  • It depends really, but my go to in general is about as much time as I'm going to spend driving.

    Sometimes though I don't need to stay that long if the company is great or the place is great.

    An example of a fun time with a 3 hour drive (1 way) and less than 6 at the destination: I went hiking with a good friend of mine and the hike only took 4.5 hours. The views were worth it and the company made it that much better.

    An example of a crap time with a 2 hour drive (1 way) and less than 4 at the destination: hiking (again) except the person I was to be hiking with spent the night before getting drunk and rather than tell me they were too hung over to hike, came along anyways. He started vomiting 30 minutes into the trail, so we have to turn around and go home.

  • I'd say x1.5 the amount of that time.

    But sometimes the journey is more important than destination.

  • Depends on what I'm there for. I've done 0.8X for a pretty long trip and would have gone faster if it wasn't for bureaucracy.

    PS i dont enjoy traveling

  • I drive to the office once a fortnight. 4 hours driving total for 6 hours there. It's necessary and recharges my enthusiasm because we have a great team.

    2 6 2

    So 3x or 60/40

  • I've been to stores 4 hours from where I live and been there for like half an hour before. has to be like a full day of driving (10 hours) for me to feel like i have to stay over night

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