Truly, factually, 8 hours

[u/zeldstarro]

[u/MagicBus4]

Bruh that won’t even get you halfway through Texas

[u/TheBoomExpress → u/MagicBus4]

A few years ago, some friends and I did a road trip from Halifax to Montreal. The trip was 12 hours.Out of curiosity, I tried to compare the distance to Texas. If you left El Paso heading east, 12 hours later, you're still in Texas.

[u/Negative-Film → u/TheBoomExpress]

I drove from El Paso to Texarkana in a single day once. Didn’t make it to my hotel until like 2 in the morning.

[u/MagicBus4 → u/TheBoomExpress]

Lol

[u/DubUpPro → u/MagicBus4]

You can drive 8 hours and stay in Wisconsin the whole time too.

I used to live in the very SW part of Wisconsin and go camping each summer about an hour south of Lake Superior. It took 8 hours to drive to our camping spot. So from SW to NW it takes about 9 hours to go through Wisconsin. And that’s not even the biggest Midwest state

[u/RMMacFru → u/DubUpPro]

Same with Michigan.

[u/Architeuthis89 → u/MagicBus4]

I took a road trip from Los Angeles to Galveston once. It took about the same amount of time to get from LA to El Paso as it did to get from El Paso to Galveston.

[u/Notorious2again → u/MagicBus4]

Fun fact: if you take the width of Texas and pivot it out from El Paso towards LA, the line extends about 100 miles out into the Pacific.

Texas is huge.

[u/Books_n_sports → u/Notorious2again]

El Paso is closer to San Diego than Houston.

[u/TooBrief4You → u/MagicBus4]

Hell, the Texas top hat has a 10 hour route

[u/MagicBus4 → u/TooBrief4You]

Lol

[u/Right_Insurance_922 → u/TooBrief4You]

THE TEXAS TOP HAT NOOO IM CRYING LOL

[u/cassandra2028]

or still in Minnesota. This is weird OP.

[u/Corwin_of_Amber3 → u/cassandra2028]

Minneapolis to Chicago is a 7-8 ish hour drive

[u/PeskyBirb666 → u/Corwin_of_Amber3]

South Minnesota to Northmost Minnesota

[u/cassandra2028 → u/PeskyBirb666]

where people live Minnesota to where people fish and have cabins Minnesota. I'm not driving to Illinois and the original post is like hardly any Iowa to start with, a small amount of Wisconsin because thats where the fields were. Enough of Illinois to get around a lake, even less Indianna and then the southern part of michigan because that's where the high way is. it is weird. Meanwhile he picked one literal end of Germany to the other one. People are weird.

[u/cassandra2028 → u/Corwin_of_Amber3]

Ok. So?

[u/RemoteAfter3339]

Cherry picking state lines vs the actual state, how many countries can you visit from the border of Germany?

[u/Responsible-Poem5274 → u/RemoteAfter3339]

https://giphy.com/gifs/eGMwPhQtiWLvRasHGB

[u/the_ballmer_peak → u/RemoteAfter3339]

The whole joke is that this is cherry-picked to invert a common comparison

[u/Recent_Resource5648 → u/RemoteAfter3339]

lol it’s just a joke chill

[u/NovelLandscape7862]

New Mexico is larger than the entire UK and we are only the 5th largest state.

[u/soupseasonbestseason → u/NovelLandscape7862]

and we can make it from top to bottom in 6 hours...

[u/NovelLandscape7862 → u/soupseasonbestseason]

Your point being? We are one state, not a whole country lol

[u/soupseasonbestseason → u/NovelLandscape7862]

i was pointing out a cool fact?

[u/NovelLandscape7862 → u/soupseasonbestseason]

That was not clear lol the ellipsis was a confusing addition.

[u/KereruBod → u/NovelLandscape7862]

His ellipses did make it weird….

[u/NovelLandscape7862 → u/KereruBod]

Ellipses are often used to convey tone…

[u/KereruBod → u/NovelLandscape7862]

If you say so……..

[u/NovelLandscape7862 → u/KereruBod]

☹️……

[u/adbedient]

So I'm calling this post bullshit because they're comparing apples to oranges.

Midwesterners drive for 6 hours and are still in the USA. They could drive for 18 hours and still be in the USA.

So the German drove 6 hours and was still in Germany. Big fucking deal. That drive through Germany took you through like 8 states though to the 6 in the US.

And that 6 hour drive through Germany is almost the entire run of the longest length of the country.

The parts of the USA covered in that 6 hours isn't even the big states

[u/Electronic-Singer127 → u/adbedient]

This. Also, the east coast is has WAY more states compared to the west coast. To drive from San Ysidro, CA to Blaine, WA is only 3 states and is about 24 hours of driving, without sleep, and depending on traffic, potty breaks and how many fuel stops you have. Realistically, it would take a couple of days to make the trip. Alternatively taking i95 from Miami to Canada takes you through 15 states+ DC and would also take a couple of days reasonably

[u/pickled-platypus]

Regardless of states, 8 hours still barely gets you much distance through the country.

[u/Sheep_Actual]

Or California, or Texas, Alaska....

[u/Nynjafox → u/Sheep_Actual]

9.5 hours to go from Detroit to Copper Harbor in Michigan.

[u/TeamFoulmouth → u/Nynjafox]

11-12hrs from an Ohio bordering city

[u/Schmaron → u/Nynjafox]

I was envious of the Wisconsinites that only drove 6 hours compared to my 10 for Trailsfest.

[u/OrganizationActive63 → u/Sheep_Actual]

Or Virginia - from the DC region to the tip of VA, NC, TN

[u/No-Willingness7499]

technically they are "Still in the USA"

[u/snozzberrypatch]

Germany has states too. How many can you drive through in 8 hours?

Also, I'm pretty sure it would be trivial to find an 8-hour driving route through Europe that goes through 8 countries.

[u/Calvin4967]

"Well, well, well. How the turntables..."

[u/Darth_Bane_1032]

Texan drives 12 hrs, still in Texas

[u/ReverendLoki]

Carson City, CA to San Diego, CA: 14H 21M
Texline, TX to South Padre Island, TX: 13H 55M

[u/MrBingly]

Factually correct: You can drive for 8 hours and never leave Rhode Island.

You might piss off the neighbors driving down their street 500 times, but you can do it.

[u/allthepoutine]

Look where it’s cross posted from before getting upset or annoyed.

[u/Schmaron → u/allthepoutine]

NO! I will not accept that this is a joke. Let me be mad 🤣

[u/KaleidoscopeRed]

Australia enters the chat

8 hours and you’re still in the same state 😂

[u/RoyalMaidsForLife]

Or you can hit 11 states along the eastern seaboard in 8 hours if traffic on I-95 behaves, leaving from Kittery, Maine...

ME- NH- MA- RI- CT- NY- NJ- PA- DE- MD- VA

[u/Schmaron]

Not true. I’ve driven 10 hours in Michigan alone. Grand Rapids to Copper Harbor.

[u/Zoujianna]

Michiganian driving 10 hours / 630 miles / 1,010 km: still in Michigan (Erie to Copper Harbor).

[u/givemesomespock]

If I drive for 8 hours in Michigan, I’m still in Michigan

[u/zmurds40]

8 hours won’t get you 3/4 across Montana, halfway across Texas, halfway up Cali, or 1/4 up Alaska.

[u/joeymittens]

“Still in the USA” there I fixed it for you

[u/usernamesaconspiracy]

Detroit to Cooper Harbor Michigan is like 20 hours. Same state. The country takes over 30 hours of straight driving to cross

[u/NetworkEcstatic]

Northern most point to the most southern point in Illinois is about 8 hours.

[u/shrederofthered]

What's the point of the OP's post? It's also truly factual to drive 2 hours and go thru 3 European countries - France, Switzerland, and Italy. Or France, Monaco, and Italy.