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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lol, that's great.

I've also heard of Europeans planning vacations in the US, expecting to see New York, Florida, Texas, LA, etc. without realizing how much travel that is.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

I met a foreign exchange student in Australia. I asked what they were planning to do for their break.

They'd recently taken up surfing, and couldn't decide if they wanted to surf the east, west, north, or south coast. So they had decided they would stay in Alice Springs, basically in the middle of all of them, and do day trips to each one.

I didn't have the heart to tell them that to get to the nearest ocean from there takes about two solid days of driving. Add another day to get to a beach with decent surf.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Found out the same between Tokyo and Okinawa. It's like flying from Washington DC to Miami. "Just take a train," is 32 hours, plus time on a ferry.

Not a really a day trip, even though it "seems like Japan is a small country."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

That's more like saying to catch a train from Miami to Puerto Rico. No one is gonna build all that train line over the ocean for hundreds and hundreds of miles 😆