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Arbitrary in the exact same sense as seeing how far you can go in any form of transport?

• wincy 5y ago
  I think the confusion arises because in the US we call anything that is a bus that takes you somewhere else “traveling by bus” which apparently long haul trips are called traveling by coach in the UK. So as an American my first thought was “heck I could probably get to LA from Kansas on a 24 hour bus trip” and to see this person traveled only a few hundred KM was confusing until that was clarified for me. I thought maybe they were gonna end up in Russia or something crazy because I have no sense of how big Europe is.
  • Symbiote 5y ago
    Europe includes a lot more water than the USA (North Sea, Baltic Sea, half the Mediterranean Sea), which is obviously a barrier to a land journey, and makes a direct comparison difficult. But otherwise, something like Lisbon to Moscow is very similar to the distance of LA to NYC. Google's driving directions for these are 45 and 41 hours, respectively.