Do you really think you can do 1000 miles in 12-13 hours in North America? You'd be in the clink well before the end of the first day. -- Ivan Reid, Electronic & Computer Engineering, ___ CMS Collaboration, Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN GSX600F, RG250WD, DT175MX "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO# 003, 005 WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon) KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
Good point. I did about 750 miles recently from San Jose to Phoenix. This took me from 9AM to 10:30 PM. I did stop for a one hour brunch though.
That's bullshit in both cases. DAS instructors sit around having a chat most of the day and couriers spend a fair proportion smoking roll ups and sneering at office girls.
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, mike bothe Christ, that's harsh given some of the fat bastards you see on Harleys. Oh, wait... -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets and Ducati Race Engineer. WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 SBS#39 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big" Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000
why, FFS - it'd have cost less to drive there on a Monday morning, spend 4 nights in a travel lodge and drive back on the Friday evening.
Because (apart from being young and foolish) A) It would have entailed staying in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do, and no colleagues around to go for a beer with. B) Work paid all the fuel anyhow, so it didn't bother me. C) I actually liked getting home at the end of a day. After a while I landed a project with a 200 mile round trip instead.
So you're saying that you drove 200 miles to work, did a day's work, then drove 200 miles home because you would see loads of friends and go out drinking every night?
Did you find that the more miles you did, the more your sense of distance diminished. When I was a sales rep the thought of long journeys did not bother me at, but having stopped doing that some years ago I now feel differently. -- Dan L (Oldbloke) My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R (Going) Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Patio Ornament) BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005), X-FOT#000, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)
Yeah, when I was driving for a job, I found myself at home in Essex one Sunday with nothing to do, so I went to a mate's house. He lived in Plymouth. I had a cuppa, then headed home again.
No, because at the time I really hated stopping away from home in hotels. Nowadays OTOH I quite enjoy staying in them.
When I regularly drove trains [1], and for that matter even now, distance on the road didn't/doesn't bother me. The time it takes pisses me off a touch but doing the distance isn't a problem. [1] ATM I only drive enough to keep my licence up to date.
When I was doing a lot of miles for work several years back it became SOP to leave home to arrive on site for ~8.30 where ever in the country that was. There's sod all chance of me getting up in the middle of the night now to go to work. Recently I've driven to Orkney[1] and this weekend to Seahouses[2] and I can't imagine how I used to put up with doing those sort of distances regularly. [1] Even when I did this for work it was a day each way and still the same for a pleasure trip. [2] I've certainly done the leave early for a day's work in Northumbria in the past.
