What is Travel??

**FiReSTaRT** · 08-03-2007, 12:53 PM

My family/friends in Europe thought I was crazy for taking almost weekly 4hr trips home and back to uni., while I was in school up north.

**majurey** · 08-03-2007, 01:05 PM

I travel 4 hours everyday to get to work and back. The mad thing about it is I choose not to drive, but take public transport instead.

Walk to bus stop
Double decker bus to tube station
Change tubes midway onto another line
Tube to overground train
Train to minibus
Arrive office

Then the reverse to get home. It's only 70 miles each way -- believe me, it still feels like 'travel' after all that!

**Bruno** · 08-03-2007, 02:47 PM

So now you also know why we don't like big american cars in Europe.
At 7.2 $ per gallon, a big V8 would quickly bankrupt the owner.

**Wildtim** · 08-03-2007, 04:44 PM

Originally Posted by Bruno

So now you also know why we don't like big american cars in Europe.
At 7.2 $ per gallon, a big V8 would quickly bankrupt the owner.

And you know why we need the space. Because we spend half our lives in there.

**pilothaz** · 08-03-2007, 05:34 PM

Originally Posted by Wildtim

And you know why we need the space. Because we spend half our lives in there.

You also carry around everything you don't need at the time.

**Berticus** · 08-03-2007, 05:46 PM

I don't like SUVs... Something about them just strikes me as bad aesthetic-wise. I prefer sports cars. Luxury cars are nice too.

Hmm... put me down for a ferrari now, in 2 years I'll be top of the waiting list... Think I can make enough money by then? Would be pretty sweet...

**pilothaz** · 08-03-2007, 05:52 PM

Originally Posted by Berticus

I don't like SUVs... Something about them just strikes me as bad aesthetic-wise. I prefer sports cars. Luxury cars are nice too.

Hmm... put me down for a ferrari now, in 2 years I'll be top of the waiting list... Think I can make enough money by then? Would be pretty sweet...

Might be tough if you are just starting to work now... lol.

**mhailey** · 08-03-2007, 06:22 PM

Originally Posted by pilothaz

You also carry around everything you don't need at the time.

What are you talking about? I only carry my golf clubs because you never know when you will get the chance to squeeze in 9 holes.

I travel about 30 min. each way to work when I drive. public transportation doubles that time, hence the reason I do not use it. I have an SUV, and would not trade it for anything (well maybe not anything), an will never give up having 4 wheel drive.

At over $7 per gallon your government must tax gasoline pretty heavily.

**PalmettoB** · 08-03-2007, 06:28 PM

This thread really has me smiling. I grew up in New Mexico. My dad now lives in Texas. We used to drive 16 hours to see my grandmother in western Colorado. Travel distances in the American west are REALLY long. Even folks from the US east coast who haven't traveled regularly in the west don't realize the VASTNESS of the region.

Even here in South Carolina, we regularly drive 3 1/2 hours to get to Charleston or the beach.

**jaegerhund** · 08-03-2007, 06:34 PM

Originally Posted by PalmettoB

This thread really has me smiling. I grew up in New Mexico. My dad now lives in Texas. We used to drive 16 hours to see my grandmother in western Colorado. Travel distances in the American west are REALLY long. Even folks from the US east coast who haven't traveled regularly in the west don't realize the VASTNESS of the region.

Even here in South Carolina, we regularly drive 3 1/2 hours to get to Charleston or the beach.

Even just hanging around central Texas and traveling west within Texas you can realize the vastness ----- but I like large areas of sparsely inhabited land ---makes me smile too.

Justin

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