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In the US, there's a good chance you haven't even left your state either (startrek.website)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 17 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I worked on a session in the nearest big metro to my small Texas town of 200,000 - daily commute of 2 hours and 25 minutes to get there in the morning, then 2 hours 25 minutes home (closer to 4 hours to get home on traffic heavy days). Not really unheard of.

Then, a few months ago - took a vacation on the beach island of South Padre, Texas then had to rush to a client in north Texas that next day. 12 hours of driving, all without leaving the state.

UK drivers know nothing of the true road trip life.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'd say the 2 1/2 hour commute is pretty unheard of. I've never heard of it before. That sounds like hell. My boss's is 90 mins and he's always complaining.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    I used to have a 40 mile/65km commute one way. I hated it. Inevitably someone would wad their car up on the highway, closing three lanes down to one lane during rush hour, and it would rapidly become a 90-minute commute.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Boss should find a good podcast and learn to meditate. Driving is my zen, especially on long highway stretches. I guess it also depends largely on if there's a love of driving and what vehicle you're in.

    Thankfully it was just for 1 artist and we were done in about 3 weeks.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Sounds like when I lived in Tyler and had to work in the DFW Metro for a job. I spent months driving back and forth. Luckily my travel was paid.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's what this was, actually. TyTX - > DFW - > TyTX. Daily. You feel me.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, I do. Right after I got done doing it for work the singer in our band booked us at Trees. So I spent all that time driving back and forth, then drove out on Saturday with a car full of equipment.

    It's not like it was a big deal and that's such a fun venue. I had a great time. I just can't think of it without remembering that drive haha.

    I hope you had a place to store your equipment there so you didn't have to load and unload everyday at least. Doing that every day would have been my nightmare.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Losing nearly 5 hours of your life just driving is pretty crazy. I've done East Yorkshire to Cardiff and back in a day to collect something and that took the best part of 9 hours with good traffic. In bad traffic that could have easily been 13 and it's not that far.

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