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I don't think anybody who has driven coast to coast would say that the US is small.
I have driven from Dallas to San Diego many times, and last year from Dallas to Georgia. Takes forever 😢
As a long haul trucker solo driver it’s 5 days coast to coast and 2 days border to border. It’s a small world.
I drove from Cincinnati to Oregon's coast...it took FUCKING FOREVER!!!
@jameslarsen8791 yea, but thats only bc your forced to stop and sleep every 8-10 hours by the dot
The farthest I've ever driven was Chicago to Vegas and back. 1750 miles. 8x
LOL, I left San Francisco to drive to Florida and I thought I would NEVER EVER get out of the state of Texas. So much so, when I saw the "You are leaving Texas" sign, I literally pulled over and kissed the ground 😱😂
OMG yeah ...stop when you see a gas station, it might be a day before you see another one.
I live smack in the middle of the state..takes forever to get anywhere..
@@shirleybain8070 I believe you darlin. I so feel for you.
When you are in El Paso, you are closer to San Diego, California, than Houston, Texas.
@@user-ii3vn8tn3q IKR too funny 😂
I’m Retired trucker. I’m pretty sure the last mile marker on I-10 is in Orange Texas and I think it was 899. So for my Europeans that means you start in El Paso Texas on interstate #10 at mile marker 1 and 898 miles later you leave the state of Texas in the city of Orange and enter Louisiana. You could do it in a day but it would be a long day.
Also a fellow/former OTR refrigerated trucker here, the first westbound exit on I-10 in TX is #880 for the welcome center.
Most Americans don't even get to all fifty states. You have to put the states you want to see most on your bucket list.
I know people who are in their 30's (my son inlaw) who have never left the state they were born in. (He's now done almost the entire east coast)
I’ve been to 22 long enough to have a meal and flown over several others. Also 3 Canadian Provinces.
I’ve been to 17 so far, a few of those during airport layovers
@jadeh2699, on my way back from AK in '84, I drove purposely through MT, since it was the last of the 50 I needed to visit. But, since I went to school with Yoda, that's plenty of time to accomplish this. (I'm really a mere 77.) I've also been to 56 countries and territories.
I really need to get out more.😀
I've been to the lower 48states and AK.
I'm not the least bit interested in going to HI.
The videos on the US have made me realize that the UK and Europe are smaller than I thought. Never thought of the UK or Europe as being small.
Depends on your definition of “Europe”. 40% of Europe is inside of Russia. If you exclude European Russia, then yes Europe is relatively small.
Europe: 10,180,000 km2 (3,930,000 sq mi)
USA: 9,833,520 km2 (3,796,742 sq mi)
EU: 4,233,262 km2 (1,634,472 sq mi)
European Russia: 3,969,100 km2 (1,532,500 sq mi)
England is smaller than Alabama
a train across Europe takes about a comparable amount of time as a train across the USA, though some of the trip will be on HSR in Europe!
From San Jose (where I live, it's part of the San Francisco Bay Area) to New York City is 3 days 18 hours on a train, and it's 2942 miles (4734 km).
From Lisbon, Portugal to Helsinki, Finland is 2725 miles (4387 km) and takes 2 days, 11 hours on public transit....but if you tell Google Maps it has to be train only, it's 4 days 1 hour! 😲
The European trip is maybe one day shorter, but of course flying is the best way to go in both cases! 5-6 hours for the USA trip and 4 hrs 40 minutes for the European one. 🙂
@L3WGReacts12 shut up, scammer
You can drive for 8 hours straight north in California and still be in California.
Lots of folks don't realize it takes 3 hours to get from Miami to Key West
*16 hours
yeah and thats not even the entire state, it takes me like 9 hours to drive from sacramento to LA
Brighton to Liverpool is 247 miles. The Grand Canyon is 277 miles long
I hauled a load of horses across Texas. We logged 76 hours of drive time, not included break time, and never left the state of Texas or traveled the same highway twice
wow Bless you darlin😅
I live in the middle and the drive would be 1500 miles to Los Angeles, 1300 miles to NYC, 1033 to New Orleans, 1655 to Seattle, and 1633 to Miami. I'm flying
Me too..10 hours just to El Paso..
I don’t blame you. I fly from Reno to Vegas out of laziness.
👍
At Four Corners, you can be in four states at once: put your two feet in two states, bend over and place your two hands in the other two states.
It’s kind of fun to do as part of a road trip.
Mo is missouri.
My son was around 5 the second time we drove from MS to AZ. I was telling him as we crossed state lines as I always do. TX went like so, "Where are we." "Texas." About an hour later, "Where are we." "Texas." about and hour later repeat. After about 5 times I told him I would tell him when we left TX. He went to sleep. I pulled over for gas at 6 am. Stll in TX and pointed out as we crossed the state line.
In my head, I read that as "Missouri is Missouri" 🤦♂ lol
England’s size in Square Miles is 50,301.
New York’s Size is 54,555 - and we are the 27th biggest state.
Our country is much larger, and anyone who attempts to make you believe that it isn’t is moronic.
The US is 3.8 million square miles.
Europe- the entire continent, not just the EU- is 3.9 million square miles.
Grand Canyon is 1,904 miles² (4,931 km²).
Whats funny is a Brit telling a Brit about America!!
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Lawrence has been living in the US ,since 2008 and he passed his US citizenship test
@@marydavis5234 That's right, he got his baseball and apple pie card!
@@Mike-kw5xv lol Apple pie was created in England
My daughter's English in-laws came to visit. We live on the Pennsylvania side of the Mason-Dixon line. I can walk to Maryland from my house. First, they flew into New York City, because it's not that far. !!! Her MIL wanted to see Boston and Niagara Falls, and were amazed at how long it took to drive the width of New York State. My daughter told me, "I told them it's not called the Empire State for nothing." And then, the whole state of Pennsylvania, but only north to south. Her FIL: "Why do you have so many trees??"
Haaa he should see my state of Oregon we have trees - I went to Texas and was like - where are your trees ?!?
Lol. Once had a friend who’d never been outside of Western Washington, which has heavily forested areas visible from literally everywhere, even if at a distance. When we got into Eastern Washington she remarked that the ecologists were right and deforestation was a terrible thing. Like she truly thought all the trees had been harvested, leaving the dried, brown hills. She lost her mind in the Palouse, which has the most productive wheat growing areas in the U.S., with rolling hills of grain as far as the eye can see.
Trees in Texas are in East Texas. Matter-of-fact, Dallas is where the trees begin and go east towards Louisiana. Fort Worth has always had the name ‘Where The West Begins.’ In the earliest photos of Fort Worth circa 1870s, there are NO trees. Every tree in Fort Worth and going west towards El Paso were planted. East is lush with trees, plants and flowers, and good acidic soil. Fort Worth and on west is clay, clay and more clay, which is alkaline and not always optimal for plants.
I drive from my home in Southern Missouri to my brother's home in Southern Pennsylvania & it takes me 15.5 hrs of driving. America is most definitely NOT a small country. I do, however, enjoy Lawrence's "cheat code" sense of humor
The US isn't massive when you're living in it. We all have our own small little worlds.
Yeah it is massive, ha ha. I live in the US and have to plan air travel to see people who also live in the US. It's why I don't see certain people as nearly often as I wish.
North Carolina. The quickest drive from the "Wright Brothers Memorial"and "First Flight State Park" on the coast to "Biltmore Estate", "America's Largest Home", in the Blue Ridge Mountains near the Tennessee line, is about 9 hours
North Carolina is the never ending state when we go to my Uncle’s in Duncan, SC but Virginia gives it a run for its money when we take 95 to Grandma’s on Lake Marion, SC
Plus another hour and a half from the biltmore house (Asheville) to the Tennessee/north Carolina line
I visited Asheville, N.C. last year and drove from SOVA (southern Virginia). I couldn't believe how long it took. It was like a 5 hour drive but the mountains were so beautiful.
North cackalack
My Hometown is Wilmington, NC. I agree that North Carolina is a big state.
Born and raised Texan here. Been to a lot of states and a few other countries. Back when I was a young adult and first time mom. Son was a year old and decided to not fly or drive us from Texas to Denver Colorado. Instead had the really really really dumb idea that taking the bus would be great. Don't know what possessed me, but it did. Left from Longview TX, and they thought it was a fantastic idea to drive all the way across Texas to New Mexico and then head up to Colorado. Never Again did I think that would be a good idea even alone. Two and a half days later we pulled into Denver. I shoved my very cranky son in his father's arms , snatched the keys out of his hands and stalked to the parking lot. Not having any idea where we were parked. Turns out it was on the street. He found it hilarious. All I can think even to this day was WTH possessed me!😂😢
Yeah, so... I live in Pennsylvania, and the drive from Pittsburgh (West Coast) to Philadelphia (East Coast) is about 5 hours.
I live in Pittsburgh!
I drive from Oklahoma City to Philadelphia and back twice a year and it’s brutal. We even spend one night in Columbus, Ohio and it’s an exhausting drive.
@t.prophoto I took a drive to Minnesota from Philly a few years back, and it was a 14-hour drive. Listened to the Hobbit on the drive there, and James Earl Jones reads the Bible on the way back. It was a really fun drive, though, with some awesome sights to see... But going the distance with only gas and bathroom breaks was rough lol
@mjpink8408 How is it over there? I've never been myself, but from the outside looking in, it seems like pretty much the polar opposite of Philly?
Idk, it's kind of astonishing to me how different Eastern and Western Pennsylvania are. Love this state, though, never been anywhere nicer. Driving around on winding back roads at 65 mph surrounded by massive trees. Or seeing the sun set on top of a mountain... a solid 85% of the state is absolutely breathtaking.
@@seanziepoo7495 it’s a pretty small city. About over 300,000 people. It takes about 30 minutes on average to get from one side of town to another. It has some pretty good things to do. Our neighborhoods are pretty nice. There are only a couple of real rough parts in the city. A few of the neighborhoods have very business oriented streets and a lot of stuff to do. One of the neighborhoods, called Oakland, is very college-oriented and has a majority of the city’s hospitals with a couple of outliers.
I learned how to drive when I was 47 years old. That summer I took a road trip around the United States, 10 weeks, 15,000 miles. later in life, I took Amtrak from San Francisco to West Hartford, Connecticut… Four days, four nights.
In Florida alone, without backtracking, driving directly, it takes 14+ hours to go from Key West to Pensacola.
It takes 11 hrs and 44 minutes to drive from El Paso Texas to Texarkana. It usually takes me 2 days to drive through Texas
Greyhound bus from NYC to Camden Maine is 10.hours including a 2 hour layover in Boston. From NYC to niagra falls 7 hours.
We also have interstate highways with multiple lanes going 70 mph+ non-stop. This is less of a cheat code and more of a “how Americans get to where they are going fast”.
Ok based on the mileage. You could go from Brighton to Liverpool, back to Brighton, and half way back to Liverpool would be like going across Texas from East to West 😂
I-10 is a long and boring drive. :/
The shortest border to border route in Texas is 13+ hours non-stop driving at around 80 mph (876 miles).... No stops for gas, food, or bathroom....
@@mbourque who has something to drive that will go those kind of miles without stoping for gas. 😳
There is a place right near the boarder of Georgia and Tennessee called Rock City where you can climb up to a spot called Lookout Mountain where you can see 7 states all at the same time. Bit tourist-y but it is a beautiful view!
I thought it was 7 states. All of the billboards say so.
You can see seven states from Rock City. And it is called Rock City. The “See” is part of the advertising.
There's a spur of the Appalachian Trail with a lookout called High Rock, but you can only see PA, WV & MD from there. I'll have to visit Lookout Mountain.
@@BarredCoast0 lol probably, I haven't been in years
@@lins5675 Lol yeah I couldn't remember how many states since I haven't been in years
You should look for the state map puzzle I sent a while ago (before you moved). I still think the latitude bit is important. England is about the same latitude as upper Canada. Florida is the same as southern Morocco. Imagine the sun angle differences between England and Morocco, then Maine to Florida.
I live in the smallest state and being a part of the local Senior Center make it feel like it's a smaller comfortable community.
It’s a gorgeous state!
It takes 15 hours to cross Texas from Louisiana to El Paso. 12 hours to New Mexico from Dallas
In 1949 or 1950, before I was born, my mother took Greyhound from Jacksonville, FL to Lawton, OK with my two older siblings. My siblings were about 1 and 3 years of age. Once they hit Texas and all the rest of the trip, the driver would drive up to every ranch and farm house to see if anyone needed to go into town. Most of the time the answer was "not today". Families that have been in Texas or Oklahoma since the 1940's still have that attitude. Highly inconvenient for strangers who are along for the ride, but very, very helpful if you are literally or figuratively stranded and need help.
I grew up in Alaska. We would drive from Anchorage to Fairbanks, which was the only other “big city” in the state, to visit my Uncle. It took us 9 hours. That was in the Summer when the roads were clear and it was light all night. People don’t get that if you put Alaska over mainland USA, it would cover over half of the country.
Greyhound is a long distance bus carrier. It’s low budget. They are updating their coaches with WiFi power points and charging ports. The onboard toilet was always a disaster. Newer coaches have improved ventilation.
Last resort travel.
I traveled from Ohio to Tennessee by Greyhound (3 layovers and 2 bus changes) and can confirm the bus toilet is a disaster! It's basically a moving port-a-john. 🤢
Four Corners you can have each hand and each foot in a different state at the same time...last time I was there I bought a cool necklace from a Native American dude.. the whole area was surrounded by vendors selling silver turquoise jewelry.
I moved from Florida (east coast) to Los Angeles (west coast). My brother and I drove pretty much straight through. It took three days.
Me too. I drove alone though. I arrived the 3rd day in the morning
@@TheDanniExperience You've got some stamina! I10 is one very long road. West Texas had bluebells in bloom, so that was pretty, though!
8:58
What you're referring to, Lewis, is where New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Utah meet
There is a series of How the States got their Shapes.
I liked it!
I drove from Michigan to the West Coast (Washington State) and back and put over 6,100 miles on the rental car. When you drive across America it changes your perspective on distance; you see a sign for a city and you’re like “That’s only 500 miles away, we can get there in less than a day. That’s not bad at all”.
Texas is interesting because you can travel a long distance at 80mph and travel a long distance. But then you go into i35 in Austin and the traffic stops and then spend 30 minutes traveling 5 miles.
The curse of large cities, mate. Doesn't matter if it's in Texas, Florida, New York, or Washington - large cities are absurdly congested.
Austin is the bottleneck of Texas. 5 mile in 30 minutes is quick. I’ve been there when it took me 1 1/2 hours to go 3 miles. I’m soooo glad they installed the toll road so I could bypass Austin. 🙏🙏🙏
I find the weirdest fact about US geography is that starting from different points in Arkansas one can travel to all 6 of its neighboring states by driving south.
Try diving from SW lower Michigan to Denver Colorado. There is nothing but corn as far as the eye can see. You can see the mountains from like 10 hours away, then you start saying "there's the Rockies, we're almost there". But then you realize you're only half way there.
Now wait a minute, Kansas is the wheat state you better have seen something besides corn
@@shelliecollier7017 - I’m thinking they went through Nebraska - aka Cornhuskers. And Iowa has the field of dreams. Or South Dakota has the corn palace.
@@shelliecollier7017 not much
I 80 is one of the most boring drives in the US. There's corn, more corn, a river, then corn, and then more corn.
@L3WGReacts12 I needed those lottery numbers on Monday.
We just returned from a 17 day motorcycle trip from Missouri and traveled and did site-seeing in all the north eastern states. We also went into Canada to see Niagara Falls. It was great!
I live in California. Our state is one of the eleven US states that is larger than the UK. I have driven coast to coast several times in my life, and have visited 34 of the 50 states. The United States has so much natural beauty. I hope to visit the remaining 16 states before I die.
So, he's just trying to say that some states in America are small and that there are faster ways of traveling to some of them that isn't just flying.
Plus he's driving through corners of some states. If you look at the route from NYC to Maine, you pass through a tiny corner of New Hampshire> You haven't seen ANY of New Hampshire, but you can check it off your list. Likewise Philadelphia to Baltimore takes you through the very northern part of Delaware.
@lynnw7155 I've watched some of this guys videos and he just uses click bait titles to talk about how "different" America is and it always ends up either being completely overblown or just wrong....
@@Squashylemonyeah I used to watch people react to his videos. Now I don't. He irks me in his deliverance and clickbait-ish videos.
@bcbritt777 lol and let's just be clear I'm not talking about the guy reacting I'm talking about the guy he's reacting to.
@@Squashylemon yeah I'm talking about the same guy lol the one with the red glasses 😆
Snooty foreigners poke fun of us not traveling the world. We literally have the world in the America. Tropical, deserts, mountains and flat lands. The weather is different. The culture is different in many areas. It’s the best place be. I am so grateful to be an American.
I love L3WG and Lawrence. And I understand their love of the USA bc I, too, have had an infatuation with England specifically since I was about 16. From that age I began watching the “Britcoms” on my state’s (GA) public broadcasting system. My dad and I would watch ‘Are You Being Served?’ (My fave) and ‘Keeping Up Appearances’ (my 2nd fave) along with others such as ‘Waiting for God’. That was in the 90’s and luckily for me I’m able to experience much more about British Telly in the modern era.😊😊
12 hours from SLC to SF doing 90 mph
it took him more than 5 hours to get from NYC to Maine, it take 4 hours to get from NYC to Boston.
It's almost 8 hours from NYC to Niagara N.Y
@@Tbone1492 true, but that's in a different direction. I assume they were taking I95 up the coast to Maine. I use to go to Boston 2-3 time a month and it took a min of 4 hours , longer if the weather wasn't great.
Greyhound is the most miserable way to travel the country. It's also the cheapest. If you can tolerate a bus trip 12 hours at a time and if the foulest smells don't bother you, then it might be worth the money you will save.
I did it once, in the 90s. Never again.
yeah if I'm going over land I would do Amtrak. I don't how to drive lmao. Of course most people just fly for long distances like that. 🙂
I have only done long distance amtrak once, from Seattle to San Jose, as my ride home from the Navy. Amazing ride, highly recommended. Ideal thing would be to fly down to Los Angeles and start the train ride from there, because from Oxnard to San Luis Obispo, about three hours, you get an amazing view of the pacific! 🙂
I went to Chicago with some friends and family on a Greyhound when I was a teenager. I was 16, spent 14 hours on a bus, and it took my spine 3dats to recover from those seats.
Then we took the ride home and I died.
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lmao. Yeah, Amtrak is superior for long distance, with plane being ideal.
(Amtrak is when you want to take a road trip but want some actual comfort. 🙂Airplanes are for the more common trips when you go to Vegas or NYC for the weekend and you need speed. 🙂 )
Okay going from East Coast Atlantic City New Jersey to Los Angeles California by bus which takes the most direct route it's a three to four day trip.🤗😎
That was fun and informative. I’m American and I learned some new stuff from that. Thanks for sharing.
Nice! I live in southern Maine. I live about 20 minutes from Portland Head Light. .. the lighthouse in the video. It was commissioned by George Washington. ❤
Love my state. I've lived here most of my 63 yrs. I lived away a couple of years in my 20s. Come to visit, it's beautiful here. It's not called Vacationland for nothing 😊
Imagine what traffic is like when Floridians evacuate for a big hurricane. There's only one way out! 😅 They actually open the wrong side of the interstates to double the number of cars getting out.
It takes 16+ hours to drive across Texas from east to west, it takes 12+ hours to drive from Pensacola Florida, in the panhandle, to Key West Florida, and here in North Carolina it takes 9+ hours to drive from Murphy, which is in the mountains, to Manteo on the Atlantic coast.
I’m sure you will visit major cities on your visit but don’t forget to get off the interstate (motorway) and see the local towns. Every one of them is unique!
It takes about 15 hours to drive across Texas
4 Corners that you refer to isn’t road it’s spot where you can stand in 4 states at once and it’s on the Navajo Reservation . But it’s a cool spot to go to. You can buy Navajo jewelry, sand paintings, and Fry bread that the Navajo sell there.
That bread is incredible!
I live in Michigan near Detroit in the lower peninsula and I go to Hancock in the upper peninsula every summer and the drive takes 12 hours!
One thing to keep in mind is that Alaska by itself is nearly the size of everything to the west of the Mississippi River. It's kinda huge in and of itself.
Alaska is big but it’s not that big, although due to the panhandle and the Aleutian island chain it is a very long state.
Alaska has a land area of 570,641 sq mi (1,477,953 km2) which is about the size of Texas + New Mexico + Oklahoma + Kansas + Louisiana. Huge, yes, but not the size of the entire western US.
For example you can fit about 2 and a half Alaskas inside of just European Russia 1,532,500 sq mi (3,969,100 km2), not including Siberia.
The thing with Four Corners (Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico) is that the Four Corners Monument isn't actually at the four corners. You'd need use longitude and latitude if you want the exact four corners.
I live in Iowa. It's "only" a 12 hour drive to Dallas, Texas from here. You pass thru 3 other states. Then it's like another 10 hours to the western edge of Texas. Some states are ridiculously huge.
Interstate 10 crosses the country from Florida to California. The section that’s entirely within Texas is 881 miles long.
I once went from NC to visit friends in Texas. When I entered Texas the mile marker was just over 1000 miles from the Eastern border to the Western Border. Also, at 4 corners, why run in a circle, you can stand with your foot in 4 states.
I think it's because one of his dreams was to visit every state, which seems impossibly daunting and expensive, so these "cheat codes" are the perfect way to check it off your bucket list faster and cheaper (unless you want to go through all the famous landmarks of each state).
Ive gone from LA to NYC a couple times and my goodness it's days of exhaustingly endless freeway lol
bro, you know you can fly that in like five or six hours, yes? 🙂 We call other states "flyover states" for a reason 🙂
@@neutrino78x this is true I've flown between LA & NYC several times, but some people don't like flying or can't afford to - although with gas prices it might be cheaper lol
(the times I drove across instead of flying were because I had stops along the way and wasn't prepared to pay for 6 flights instead ha)
I am a long haul truck driver in America. I drive across the country every week
I’m in Cincinnati, Ohio - the southwest corner of Ohio. Cincinnati has a circle freeway (I275). Driving on 275 will take you from Ohio to Indiana to Kentucky and back to Ohio, when traveling west. I’m in the west side of Cincinnati I can hop on 275 and get to the Greater Cincinnati airport (which is in northern Kentucky, yeah, don’t ask) in roughly 30 minutes.
I live in Ky, and I was just thinking about 275 loop. It's a short drive from IN across N Ky to Ohio.
Honestly I'm a bit surprised Alaska has never challenged the 'everything is bigger in Texas' claim seeing it all laid out on a map like that.
I know population density etc. but holy shit Alaska is huge.
Orange, Texas to El Paso, Texas: 857 miles (1,380 km)
One freeway. No turns. Speed limits up to 75 mph.
12 hours of straight driving at freeway speed, and you're still in the same state.
... it's 850 miles from Paris to Warsaw, and only 550 miles from John O'Groats to Bournemouth
Retired "Road Warrior" here - I used to drive from Nashville to Atlanta, Nashville to St. Louis, Detroit to Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Houghton (Upper Peninsula), Brooklyn or Indianapolis daily or weekly for work or school. It took less time to drive to Washington, DC than to parts of the Upper Peninsula.
For those who don't understand how big the USA is - 2,865 miles (4,584 km) from Seattle to New York City. Los Angeles to Miami 2,732 Miles, Chicago to Houston 1,080 miles..... IT'S BIG
Drove from Seattle Washington to Port St Lucie, Florida - took 5 days (3200 miles). It takes 11 hours to go from Seattle, WA to Missoula, Montana....Most of the state borders that are jagged are following natural boundaries such as rivers or mountains
I wish Europeans would understand how large the US is when they go on with their "Most American's haven't left the country" rant. With a country that is the size of all of Europe, why would we need to?
The driving distance from Penzance in Cornwall to Scrabster in Scotland (ferry to Orkney) is shorter than the distance I once needed to drive to see my parents (Cold Lake, AB to North Vancouver, BC) at Christmas. The UK is quite small in comparison to Canada and the USA.
I live in Northern California, it would take me about 10-12 hours to get to San Diego, without ever leaving the state, on the same highway, right next to my town.
Love it. Need to come sometime soon.
I’ve taken the Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado and Kansas route many times. Prime Dust Bowl history there. Extreme swings in the weather out there too that can be quite dramatic. Fun video!
Check out Rhode Island
It's like visiting just a city
Greyhound is a bus that goes all over the country. I use it because I don't like to fly. When I lived in Minnesota it would take about 35 hours to get home to New York.
If you consider the state of Michigan, and ignore the Mackinac bridge, to go from the Upper Peninsula to the Southern body of the state, you would need to drive most of the north/south length of Wisconsin, through the Northeast corner of Illinois, AND the Northwest corner of Indiana to get to the Southern edge of the state of Michigan. From the city of Menominee, Michigan, to New Buffalo, Michigan, would take about 5 hours of driving, and cover approximately 335 miles, and go through the cities of Green Bay, Manitowoc, Sheboygan, and Milwaukee in Wisconsin; Waukegan and Chicago in Illinois; and around Calumet City and Michigan City in Indiana, before returning to Michigan.
But remember, that route ignores the bridge crossing part of the Great Lakes (I think it's close to the border between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, between Mackinaw City and St. Ignace in Michigan. The Mackinac Bridge is nearly 26,400 feet long, (just over 8 kilometers), with a four-lane highway more than 16 total meters wide.
*FUN FACT:* All 27 countries that make up the EU aren't even half the size of the United States. In fact, the United States is a whopping 2.3X larger than the EU. Or 132.4% larger than the EU.
I regularly drive all the way across Rhode Island in 25 minutes. It's about 21 miles across. The drive from Connecticut to Vermont goes all the way through Massachusetts, but it is only 55 miles.
I haven't even been outside a 150-mile radius of the Chicago/Milwaukee area in the last 15 years. Traveling costs way too much. But next week, for the first time, that will change as I'm traveling to Ohio for a week.
Driving from San Diego to the northern border of California takes about 11.5 hours. Driving across Texas is about the same time!
10:30 5 hours and I'd wager the speed limit is between 60 and 75 miles an hour through large sections of that route.
55 and 65 actually
The shortest route between Oregon and San-Diego is 982.14 mi (1,580.61 km) according to the route planner. The driving time is approx
19 hours 😮
From another perspective on size, the U.S. is a nation of small towns. Of the 19,500 cities in the U.S., 16,410 are under 10,000 population. Half of all U.S. police departments have fewer than ten offices. Three in four have fewer than two dozen officers. There are 11, 788 local police departments. Despite the impressions from the metro areas, the U.S. is really a rural nation. Eight Texas counties have fewer than 1,000 people. Loving County has 43 residents, the least of any U.S. county. Brewster County has 6,200 square miles but only 9,500 people. Larger than each of three individual states. But fewer people than most small towns. Nine states have population densities under 30 per square mile, and vast areas have far lower densities. The entire Texas panhandle has only 17 people per square mile, and that includes some marge cities.
I live in Delaware and driving to our vet there's a spot where to pass from Delaware to Maryland to Pennsylvania in about 30 seconds. It's funny when it gets announced on GPS.
It takes about 8 hours to drive from the northernmost point of Illinois to the southernmost point of our state. But Lawrence could have added a local drive to his video. You can drive through 4 states in the Chicago area (around the tip of Lake Michigan) within 4 hours. Go from Michigan, through Indiana, then Illinois to Wisconsin. Another fun fact is that at the bottom of Illinois you can choose between 2 bridges, one takes you to Kentucky and one takes you to Missouri.
Takes about a 5.5 hour flight from San Francisco to Washington DC, and you end up 3 hours ahead. Pretty big.
The Grand Canyon is truly "grand". I've driven the length of it, and it took a number of hours.
You can go international in about 2 hours if you’re in Southern California. You can get to Tijuana (Baja California) in a 2 hour drive.
Oh, the Four Corners! Go! Monument Valley's there--awesome!
I am also a cartophile (map lover) my dear paternal grandma was the same. We loved looking over maps. If she were alive today, she would love Google Maps and street view. Wish she had lived long enough, although she died at 96 in 2008.
I live in Northern Northern California, I say it twice cause people assume SF is north when it’s more closer to the middle range. So think ~100 miles away from the northern border, not 300-400 miles like SF is. Anyways, there’s been times I had to drive to LA, thankfully the northern part, and it takes a 8-9 hour drive through the state if I have ideal traffic.
The kicker is if I instead drove from the coast on the west to the eastern border traveling through where I live, it might take 6-8 hours because of the mountain ranges.
There's a "mountain" in Michigan where you can see three states: Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. I say "mountain" because it's about the size of a California hill. Michigan's UP was ground down under glaciers forever and a day ago, turning the ancient mountains there into dwarf mountains. If you ever get the chance to check them out they are called the Porcupine Mountains, sometimes called the Midwest's last great wilderness.
I live near the corner rock where the states of Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri converge. You can stand on it and be in 3 states simultaneously.
I live 50 miles from the cornerstone of where the states of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri converge. You can also stand in 3 states simultaneously, here as well.
Measuring from its furthest points, the contiguous United States is approximately 2,800 miles from east to west, and 1,650 miles from north to south. The total area of the U.S. and its territories is over 3.8 million square miles.
8:13 I have a weekend trip in October down to see Ruby Falls and Rock City. We are staying in upper Northeast Alabama, right next to Georgia and Tennessee. We will be doing a little bit of hiking in all three states.
true story: I was driving through Texas when I came across a Matador on the interstate. Constuction was on the East bound side, while I was going West. one Mexican construction worker was standing in the middle of the two West bound lanes with an orange flag playing Matador with speeding traffic. I stopped at a Waffle house a few miles down the road and explained what happened and the waitress said yeah they do that and you should have run him over. She was joking ...I think.
Lewis: When (not if!) you travel to the US, plan on spending at least a couple months so you can do ROAD TRIPS throughout the US, seeing the sights and just the lovely land in general. Stopping at small towns and meeting the inhabitants while eating at the local diners is the best!
It takes 3 ⅔ hours to get from Lawranceville, PA (northern) to Fairplay, PA (southern). Both are along US Route 15 in Pennsylvania. That's going north to south, though.
What about East to West? We'll, going from East Stroudsburg, PA through US Interstate 80. The finishing point will be Farrell, PA. With a toll, it'll take 4 ¾ of an hour if you keep on I-80. That's the quickest way to get to either location.