copperbadge:

gallusrostromegalus:

systlin:

kaedien:

americans think ABSOLUTELY NOTHIN of driving 7 hours. they’ll drive 7 hours just for dinner. they’ll drive 7 hours just for chips and dip

…I have seriously considered driving 16 hours just for that gumbo from that one diner in New Orleans. 

And I have driven 6 hours to pick up bees before. 

I’ll drive 12 hours to have breakfast at a Diner outside of Glacier National Park before they run out of Apple Pie.  I don’t even eat Apple Pie but my sister loves thiers and her plane wouldn’t get in until after they run out.

It helps that we have large sections of extremely senic countryside with little to no traffic, which is different than driving in through many small cities with stop-and-go-traffic for two hours.

We also have no other option. Our major cities are SEVEN HOURS APART and our trains are exorbitantly expensive and always late. 

WE HAVE TO DRIVE SEVEN HOURS, WE ARE FULL OF EMPTINESS AND THERE’S NO TRAIN.