This is meaningless if it drives back on the same roads. “You can drive for 30 hours on a roundabout in Blackburn, Lancashire without ever leaving the roundabout in Blackburn, Lancashire”
Yeah I can drive for 30 hours and still be in my hometown, in fact, I can spend my entire life there. Crazy
No chance with all those holes though
Thank you
I shudder at the thought of 30 hours in Blackburn.
False. You’d have to stop and get gas thereby necessitating that you leave the roundabout in Blackburn
If airplanes can refuel mid flight, then so the fuck can I mid roundabout.
I don’t really think this counts, since he doubles back around at a point, I mean, if you’re allowed to do that, you can drive for 30 hours almost anywhere, and still be in the same area.
You can do this in WA, but without looping back
On these kinds of roads that go across Australia, are they well maintained? I’m guessing it’s not like a highway the whole way. Are there frequent enough towns, petrol stations etc.? How easily can you end up stranded in the middle of nowhere?
Going through some of those parts, chances are some of them are probably unsealed - though I suspect google maps will always generally try to pick the sealed roads.
As for petrol stations… Yeah keep a few Jerrys with you, just in case, as well as a spare full size tire or two (space savers are a bad idea in the outback) as well as a toolbox, with basic tools, hose clamps, etc. and plenty of drinking water/snacks. Maybe even a few packed lunches.
The nullaboar (Latin for “no tree”) plains along the coast of south/western Australia are well known for having the one long, straight, featureless Eyre highway with a whole lot of space Between petrol stations. The most dangerous thing about those roads is fatigue from looking at the constant unchanging scenery for hours at a time. The second is running out of fuel or breaking down - where you gotta hope you’ve got the shit to fix stuff, because it’s highly unlikely you’ll see a friend on the road for at least an hour or two, if not longer.
It’s so long that there are three designated airstrips on the highway designed for emergency landings and air ambulances (royal flying doctor service FTW - seriously, those guys deserve all the praise, true heros)
I would think there’s no speed cameras in the midst of nothing, which leads to the question… How fast can you safely go on those roads?
Yep I heard some parts will be like 1000km without stations and stuff like that so you need to be well prepared with extra gas etc.
Damn they even got a Denmark down under, poor saps
It takes 23 hours and 2000 km to drive from the southernmost point in sweden to Abisko in the north.
A full loop through Malmö-Kalmar-Stockholm-Luleå-Abisko-Östersund-Göteborg-Malmö takes over 2 days and over 4000 km.
Europe is not small.
Sweden is definitely the exception in EU, that country is crazy “long”, and the geography also makes travel more difficult. You can drive north-south all across Germany in under 10 hours
The equivalent to what this guy did would be more like driving along the border, which would easily take 30h.
I think OPs point is that this is only in 1 state as opposed to an entire country.
Eh, the distinction between internal state and sovereign state isn’t really that relevant here. If history had gone differently, the 13 American colonies would have been independent and sovereign states, just like the 27 member states in the EU.
If frogs had wings they wouldn’t bump their ass on the sidewalk.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation
Ok but it actually happened for 8 years
Lol. Responds to a post about a state by comparing it to a continent.
A full loop around Jupiter is 70,000 km.
Jupiter is not small.
The post says “The European mind cannot comprehend this”. The US is barely twice as big as Europe. We have states that are bigger than Michigan.
He’s comparing one state to one country (Sweden) and then adds that Europe is not small, which is fair, because the caption says that the “European” mind can’t comprehend this. Europe as a continent is about as big as the US, the European Union is less than half of the size of the US and the individual countries are of course way smaller than the US. Since the EU has open borders, I’d say that comparing the US to the EU is fair and EU member states can be compared to US states. For example: France is about as large as Texas, Germany about as large as Montana and Italy is comparable to New Mexico. There’s a lot of movement between EU countries and some people cross borders every day to go to work or do groceries. The highway/road just continues without interruption.
Europe as a continent is meaningless, though, and then you might as well include Asia, as Europe isn’t an actual continent (Eurasia is the worlds largest continent). You could drive all the way to Eastern China if you’d like, but you’d be crossing multiple borders with border control and visa requirements, so that makes it incomparable to driving within the US.
You could fit 16 Netherlands into Texas. Lol
And we can fitt 16 Rhode Islands in the Netherlands.
I can drive around my block for 30 hours and still be on my block! It’s crazy!
