Built like a Mercedes (?)

Bloody 'ell. Mercifully Belleville to Toronto hasn't but you DO have to pick your times. 3 am is good.

Driving from Waterloo Ontario to Prince Edward Island ( 1770 km) in one day is a long trip. Or driving to Montreal and back (1286 Km). Or driving to Winnipeg (2155 km) in 2 days. Heck, Waterloo to Windsor and back in the same day (587km) is starting to get a bit tedious, but is not a "long" trip. Waterloo to Banff in 2 days - that's a long trip. Waterloo to Lakeland Florida? That's a long trip. But none are terribly out of the ordinary for me in years past. Vic Falls Zambia to Luapula Province Zambia? now THAT IS a long trip, even spread over 3 days. Particularly in the rainy season. Worse conditions than what I generally encounter here in Canada. However,Even 170 Km from Wiarton to Waterloo is a long trip when there's a good foot of snow on the road surface, and you can't see 500 feet in front of you like the trip this weekend!!!Shovelling the car (NOT a 4wd) out of snow banks just makes the trip longer.

I have seen your average mileage quoted and there is not much difference. Average doesn't mean much in either place except as a measure of the hours spent behind the wheel in various locations and despite your protestations there is not a whole lot of difference. It is interesting to note the psyche that *needs* to believe that 'mine is bigger/better/longer/further than yours'.

Huw

Hint, my business mileage is about 500 miles per week, which I don't consider much. Today I did Aberystwyth to Dale [15 miles southwest of Haverfordwest] which was about 175 miles total round, with a 16ft trailer and two tons on it for half the journey. Started at 1pm and back for 6pm. Tomorrow at some point I will hit Brecon. My daily drive is a Toyota Land Cruiser 4.2.

Huw

No it is you that is missing the point. I don't consider my mileage to be particularly out of the ordinary. It is you that makes that kind of claim, repeated above. "Bigger/better/longer" remember?

Huw

And that's only about 150 miles further than Orange, Texas to El Paso, Texas, travelling Interstate 10 all the way.

Bigger, better AND further eh.

Huw

"Huw" wrote

IMO, a PER CAPITA average mileage would be more instructive than average per car. BTW, my average on my primary car is around 18K miles. And I don't even commute - no job.

FloydR

A bit of a waster then in more ways than one?

Huw

you better hope so.

"Huw" wrote

Considering that about 1/3 of that mileage is in support of volunteer efforts for charitable organizations, your characterization of "waster" is entirely inappropriate. Most of the rest is for traveling between my three homes - us retired people have more free time to travel than you "businessmen".

FloydR

Bah. Luxury. Try getting to Bafole in Cameroon.

Roads? Vass iss mit roads?

Phawr. Pics?

Try to get to Fabedougou Burkina Faso. The "road" ends about 4K from the village.

"Floyd Rogers" wrote >>

I was just asking.

Huw

Depends on your point of view.... my daughter hates riding for that long but my wife and I love seeing the country that way.

That is a typically Texan comment... :-) (What a big state I have...)

Reminds me a story told long ago when a Texan and a South African (but you insert any number of other countries) were arguing about the relative sizes of their 'states'...

Towards the end the Teaxan brags, "Texas is so big that if you board a train at one end, you're still in Texas 24 hours later."

Answer, "Yes, yes, we have (slow) trains like that, too, here..."

DAS

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