cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/35173283
My Irish mind can’t comprehend such long distance drives
Texas is 800 miles wide. I know a guy who made the drive from central Texas to San Francisco and back in just over two days. That’s a 3200+ mile round trip.
Is that guy a big fan of stimulants? I did an absolutely insane road trip once that pales in comparison to that. I was driving 9-14 hours a day but what you just said sounds like 24 hour driving days.
He did the first leg on coffee, passed out while his friend in SF loaded the moving van, and then his friend drove the truck back part of the way and he took over when he woke up. The tuck was only ever parked long enough to load it, get food, or pee.
Thankfully I was on a separate trip or I’d have been guy #2.
I saw one of these that showed a location 500 miles in the other direction. It had an uturn arrow on it. They have so much money they can advertise to people not even heading in that direction.
One of my friends recently drove 14 hours in one shot. They took breaks, of course, but they did drive 14 hours, around 900 miles, in one day.
I once drove coast to coast. Started in San Diego California, drove a couple hours on I-15 up to Barstow to meet I-40, and then passed this sign:
Two and a half days later we pulled into Raleigh. I slept through most of New Mexico and all of Arkansas, I was at the wheel through Arizona, half of Texas (we switched at Amarillo), and some of Tennessee into North Carolina, my cousin was at the wheel otherwise. It’s the farthest single trip I’ve done by land.
Pfft Buckee’s is so big you can probably see it at that distance.
Love Buc-ee’s, but it’s always so goofy how far off they’ll advertise a location. Then, once you pass it by, you’ll see a couple more billboards telling you that it’s behind you and you can still turn around and go back.
I really have to wonder what their advertising budget is sometimes.
It’s probably something like .00001% of their revenue, really. I’m always amazed at how a gas station has people fanboying over it, and is always full.
South of the Border has been doing this long before Buc-eel’s even existed.
Yup! That one feels like it should be a record for them!
I wonder the same about the advertising budget for different mega law firms like Darryl Isaacs that has proudly on some of their billboards “We’ve recovered more than $2 billion for our clients.” I’m like, “Yeah and then immediately reinvested into buying more billboards.”
About halfway between PHX and Tucson?
Yup, this is a cross post of my post from the old community. The funny (to me) part is that it’s for the wrong direction. It needs to be for the eastbound traffic.
Not sure when the last time you drove by it was, but they fixed it a little while back.
Oh goodie! Only 12 more hours!