All these guys are posting crossing their whole country, but as Texas is one state, it’s fair to say that’s the same as a province.
Shared route From Windsor, Ontario to Kenora, Ontario via ON-401 E.
23 hr 6 min (2,190 km) For the best route in current traffic visit https://maps.app.goo.gl/Jmm9TmKVu79bTANq5
Staying only within Ontario, Canada it takes almost one full day of literally non stop driving.
This is in one state.
That is a respectable size and to you sir I can only say what any man can say in this situation.
It’s not about the size, but how you use it. ;-)
The 51st state is part of the USA, that’s the whole point of this post. The Euros just can’t grasp the size.
I guess I missed the /s
Did no one get the 51st state joke…
Your geography lesson for today is (Google) mapping a route from Brest to Menton (France) and compare it to the route posted by OP.
But that’s crossing a country. Texas is a state. Going from San Diego to Portland, Maine is ~46 hours, and that’s probably not the longest route. There’s also Alaska and Hawaii (no direct roads to the contiguous 48 states), and Florida, that’s just a pretty long route off the top of my head.
Your geography lesson for today is to map 2 routes across the EU and compare them to your statement.
- Map the longest route across the continental EU.
- Connect the farthest points of France by way of Paris and compare it to the distance between Hawaii and New York. (Hint: Start is in South America or the Caribbean and finish is in the Pacific. )
Lol, I always forget how much random stuff France owns across the globe.
But here’s an overlay of the EU on the contiguous 48 US states from Reddit (doesn’t include Alaska, which is half as big as the whole US). That even gives the EU UK, which is no longer a member state. Alaska is really really big (like more than half the size of the lower 48 states).
As next lesson you’re going to learn about the failings of the Mercator projection - stay with me you’re going to love this!
While Alaska is pretty massive it is not as big as you think it is. Follow this link to the website that Redditor used to create the visual and drag Alaska onto the rest of the US: https://www.thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTYxNTY4MzI.ODIwNzY1OA*MTA0MzY2ODQ(MzUyODQ4MQ~!CONTIGUOUS_US*MTAwMjQwNzU.MjUwMjM1MTc(MTc1)Mg~!IN*NTI2NDA1MQ.Nzg2MzQyMQ)MQ!CN*OTkyMTY5Nw.NzMxNDcwNQ(MjI1)MA!US-AK*MzU2MjMwMg.Mjg0OTg3OTk)Mw
Next drag Greenland onto Africa and vice versa, then both onto the US. Amazing isn’t it?
This is awesome!!
Your history lesson for today is looking up when Canada became the 51st state…and realize I was being sarcastic.
Does that account for times you have to stop to brawl with a moose?
If you’re brawling with a moose then you’re not a true Canadian. Every Canadian knows the moose wins every time.
This is true. A moose once bit my sister.
Mynd you, moose bites Kan be pretti nasti
Someone travelling from Windsor would almost certainly take the shorter 17hr trip through the states. Still a long one.
Best I can find in Canada is in BC. I think you could get longer distances in a few other provinces, but the issue is a lack of roads/destinations in the northern corners, haha.
Try tiny Norway with 6m people, you can drive 1 day 18 hours (almost 3000km)from the southwest to the northeast, shortest route.
“In the US, 100 years is a long time, but in Europe, 100 miles is a long way”
I once drove 6 hours to get out of Texas only to be stuck miles from the border for another 6 hours because three semi-trucks collided and caught fire…
My european mind doesn’t give a shit about the us , it doesn’t even think of it .
How about Sweden?
Let’s just say that when crossing the Pyrenees you don’t want to stray from the main north-south(ish) roads…
In North America, we think 100 years is a long time. In Europe they think 100 miles is a long distance.
Pff, with traffic jams you can do that without ever leaving Brussels.
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Does it really count if you’re taking a ferry? You’re not even driving and your car gets to rest like it just pulled an 12 hour shift.
That’s multiple countries…
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No, but he spends half the time on a ferry.
834miles? Is that a joke?
That’s only 12hrs if you drive the speed limit
That’s not driving for 25 hours, unless you’re driving on water.
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If we’re doing ferries, what about Florida Keys to the north slope of Alaska?
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What about Murmansk to Habarovsk?
23 hours to go from Cornwall, Ontario to Kenora, Ontario by the most direct route.
And that doesn’t even include the furthest communities or settlements. just fastest route to the Manitoba border.
There are a lot of communities in Northern Ontario that there are no direct roads to.
Trying to plot a bunch of routes out right now to get an idea and half the routes direct me to drive through the US to save time.
Windsor to Kenora is the longest I’ve plotted so far at 23 hours
Came here for this. Ontario is massive.
Where is the joke about the famous woman who would just use her jet?
Let’s not talk driving hours, let us talk mileage. 13 hours on a Texas highway is going to cover much more land than trying to drive some 12th century side street in an Italian village at 5km/h.
It was crazy to realize on a recent road trip through the middle of the US, that half of my day’s planned drive was the width of Germany.
Welcome to Finland.
I didn’t realise Texas was so small. Americans talk about it like it’s big.
If it were a state in Australia, it would be our third-smallest.
That’s more a statement on the USA’s tiny states than anything specific against Texas though.
