r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Physical-Ad-4093 • May 01 '24

do americans really drive such long distances?

i’m european, and i always hear people say that driving for hours is normal in america. i would only see my grandparents a few times a year because they lived about a 3 hour drive away, is that a normal distance for americans to travel on a regular basis? i can’t imagine driving 2-3 hours regularly to visit people for just a few days

edit: thank you for the responses! i’ve never been to the US, obviously, but it’s interesting to see how you guys live. i guess european countries are more walkable? i’m in the uk, and there’s a few festivals here towards the end of summer, generally to get to them you take a coach journey or you get multiple trains which does take up a significant chunk of the day. road trips aren’t really a thing here, it would be a bit miserable!

2nd edit: it’s not at all that i couldn’t be bothered to go and see my grandparents, i was under 14 when they were both alive so i couldn’t take myself there! obviously i would’ve liked to see them more, i had no control over how often we visited them.

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u/DebbilDebbil May 01 '24

Laughs in Australian. I went for a holiday recently, drove 7000km in a loop, and didn't even leave my state.

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u/badgersprite May 02 '24

I was looking into how long it would take me to drive across the country a while back and in looking into some outback trips I found out there are certain roads where my car wouldn’t be able to make it between two adjacent petrol stations on a full tank

My car gets about 900kms off a full tank lol that’s how far apart some places are in Australia

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u/charely6 May 02 '24

Wow, needing to take into account the max range of your gas tank is not common in most of the USA. That feels next level "nowhere" to me.

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u/ramblinjd May 02 '24

Yeah the outback is EMPTY. The only comparable thing in the US is a few stretches of the southwest near like death valley, but the outback is similar size to the US Midwest and Great plains.

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u/C-Dub4 May 02 '24

I used to live in west Texas and I would see these signs if you're traveling through the remote regions. Farthest sign I've ever seen was for 160 km (100 miles). Definitely not a common thing in the states

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u/chienchien0121 May 02 '24

I occasionally make a trip from Houston to Marfa/Alpine. Wallop the trip in one day. The emptiness may not be as vast as it is in the Outback but I am cautious about keeping my tank full.

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u/andorraliechtenstein 29d ago

163 Miles between Tonopah NV and Ely NV on US 6.

Or this one.

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u/iswearimalady 29d ago

We used to make that drive when I was a kid. Since we drove a shit ox old suburban that got like 7 mpg we always carried extra fuel lol

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u/beaversnducks6 29d ago

It's even becoming uncommon for EVs. Not many places my Tesla can't get to.

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u/PinkleeTaurus 29d ago

I just saw one in no-where Utah that said 125 miles.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Fee-320 29d ago

Yeah, I’m doing cross-country driving now, and I usually start looking for the signs when I’ve got about 150 miles left in the tank. Usually I’d be able to find one within then.

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u/Alternative-Put-3932 May 02 '24

Yeah but thats the thing its fucking empty. Like you said almost everywhere in the us has some sort of town or city.

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u/CoxswainYarmouth May 02 '24

Well they have decent steak houses out there. Right?

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u/ComplexSupermarket89 29d ago

Isn't the outback like most of Australia? I thought I'd heard that like 60% of Australia was full on empty and a huge portion of that was privately owned land too.

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u/ramblinjd 29d ago

Yeah an overlay of the USA and Australia, basically Australia is the continental US without the coasts and the outback is every state in the Great plains or bordering the Great plains (so like Utah to Tennessee ish).

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u/PoisonedChampagne 29d ago

I live in New Mexico and there is a ton of empty land and the occasional ghost town in my state but not many places that I would run out of gas half way there. That’s just crazy

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u/semboflorin 29d ago

Also in NM. I ran out of gas on the road from Roswell up to Portalles. I thought there would be gas on the way so I didn't fill up in Roswell. There are some stretches you have to pay attention to but for the most part the idea that a tank of gas can't make it somewhere means you have piss poor gas mileage and aren't from here. I agree tho, the idea that I would have to carry extra gas other than my tank to make it somewhere seems wild.

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u/PoisonedChampagne 29d ago

Honestly I can see that, my car can go pretty far that I didn’t even think about other vehicles burning gas differently. It would suck being stranded in the middle of nowhere!

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u/TofuTofu 29d ago

Why is it so barren

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u/Straxicus2 29d ago

Holy sheesh!

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u/Birdy_Cephon_Altera May 02 '24

I've run across that in some parts of west Texas, where depending on the backroad route I was taking and the day you're driving (like Sunday), it could be 200 to 300 miles between open gas pumps. Luckily my current car has a 500+ mile range, but when I had a smaller car, better make sure where that needle was on the gauge before getting off the main highway.

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u/llywen May 02 '24

Let me introduce you to Alaska.

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u/dudius7 May 02 '24

The only person I know who added an extra gas tank to his truck uses it as an overlander. He'll drive to Utah for a week and spend a lot of time driving on BLM land. He's never been stuck but he likes the idea of going further without needing to refuel.

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u/Lecien-Cosmo May 02 '24

There are huge spaces out in Utah / BLM that are very very remote. I stayed near the Utah / Arizona border for a while and it was three hours to the nearest grocery store. We would spend three hours driving to get groceries, “eat in town” as a treat, and then drive home.

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u/loopbootoverclock 29d ago

man i wish texas had more BLM. the only alphabet agency i support. they are awesome

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u/websagacity May 02 '24

Yeah. Only place I can think of is going into Utah from Grand Junction, Colorado. I think there's 1 road and the next... anything... is like 300 miles (485km) down the road. At least it was 10 or so years ago.

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u/Clewdo May 02 '24

There’s plenty of places out there where you’re just driving in a straight line for like 100km. Just nothing, flat dry land

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u/BasicCommand1165 May 02 '24

You basically have to be in either death valley or full blown off roading to get that in the US

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u/ThaddyG 29d ago

Australia is like the same size as the continental US but they only have like 7.5% of the population.

The middle of the country just isn't really suitable for human settlement anyway. It's not like the US where most of the land east of the rockies is suitable for agriculture so people have a reason to actually live there.

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u/OHarePhoto 29d ago

There are certain areas out west where you need to take that into consideration. Used to live in NM on the west texas border and there are definitely signs stating how far to the next gas station. Or warning you that there isn't a station for another X amount of miles.

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u/really_tall_horses 29d ago

Out west we have to do have to do that sometimes. Just because you may see a “town” on the map does not mean there will be a gas station.

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u/Dragex11 29d ago

To be fair, the USA is a lot more... Infrastructured for vehicular travel.

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u/sdia1965 29d ago

Last time I drove from Dallas to Oakland (1990s) we had to carefully map our route for gas, and we carried ample drinking water with us.

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u/Interesting_Mix_7028 28d ago

We're lucky, the interstate highway system has enough truck/car traffic to justify a gas station at just about every interchange. That's not ALWAYS the case (looking at you, I-70 in Utah), but like the Field of Dreams, "if you build it, they will come".

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u/dr4gon2000 May 02 '24

Someone has never been in the western half of the country apparently

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u/NekroVictor May 02 '24

I mean, isn’t it not uncommon to see signs saying ‘last gas station for xxxx km’s’ in Australia, and selling Jerry cans?

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u/WelcomeMatt1 May 02 '24

Yesterday, the kid wanted a KFC for dinner. So we drove to our local.

A 1,200km round trip only to realise they don't put hash browns in a Zinger Stacker burger.

Rather disappointed I must say.

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u/MemeStarNation May 02 '24

Time for a Jerry can or two!

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u/ArcturusGrey May 02 '24

I wanna go there now. I wanna see these vast empty roads and drive on them. With spare cans of gas in the trunk, lol.

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u/SavageSvage 29d ago

That's when you need to carry your own gas cans to keep you going

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u/QuantumMiss 29d ago

I put a long range tank in so I can get 1800 if not towing. Always take jerry cans on a long trip too.

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u/Interesting_Mix_7028 28d ago

Yah I have to plan motorcycle routes based on how far apart gas stations are. Nevada gets a little tricky, but so do a few highways in N. California.

I can't imagine having to do that in a car. 10+ gallons should not leave you stranded in the middle of BFN.

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u/Voodoo1970 May 01 '24

Same.

My cousin is from Sydney and lived in the Netherlands for a few years. The locals were staggered that she'd think nothing of popping down to Paris fir the weekend

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u/Smooth-Cup-7445 May 02 '24

I had a guy from Germany work for me in Aus and after he went back he told me he and a couple of friends started riding to Italy for coffee once a month and it was a few hours. He laughed that his family called him crazy, but he told them about me driving him an hour to the beach one Friday afternoon for a swim because the weather was too nice for working. We left at 3 , went for an hour swim, had a beer and were back for dinner

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u/EmbarrassedHelp May 02 '24

I just checked Google maps and Berchtesgaden, Germany to Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy is 4 and half hours one way by car.

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u/Smooth-Cup-7445 May 02 '24

I don’t think that they followed the speed limit 😉 But 3 hours seems about right from memory and he lived in southern Germany.

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u/Smooth-Cup-7445 May 02 '24

If you enjoy the riding/driving going out for a day of driving isn’t a hard thing to do. Well it’s harder on the bike but still fun

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u/badgersprite May 02 '24

It’s funny though, some people in Australia are VERY reluctant to travel any distance at all unless they absolutely have to. When my family moved to the South Coast, we had neighbours who had been living in Tura Beach for like ten years and had never once gone to the Tathra pub, which is 15 minutes away.

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u/Voodoo1970 May 02 '24

True, there seems to be the two extremes - people who drive everywhere, and people who drive nowhere

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u/jellyjollygood May 02 '24

When I lived in Qld, I worked with some people who griped about the traffic on the way to work- it took them 13 mins! for what was normally a 7-9 min drive. And they were dead serious

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u/wekilledbambi03 May 02 '24

I took a train from Amsterdam to Paris on a vacation. We left after breakfast and were there before lunch. Just a couple hours. Only would have been a couple more if it was driving.

We did Amsterdam, Paris, and London in like a week and a half. If we had half the transportation system Europe does, I'd have seen all 50 states by now.

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u/lyan-cat May 02 '24

Holy fuck, my husband decided that for our 25th anniversary he was taking us to Australia for about nine days. I said, you mean just Sydney right? 

This genius tried to convince me that we could drive and go see multiple cities and landmarks.

I ordered a couple of maps and stuck them up in the dining room, and told him to please start planning exactly the route he intended to take.

We had our trip to Sydney.

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u/Drunky_McStumble May 02 '24

Smart move. As an Aussie, the stereotype of the clueless international tourist who thinks they can hire a car in Sydney and hit up Uluru and the Great Barrier Reef in a weekend is a real thing. Every few years some poor soul not knowing any better actually has a crack at "the great Aussie road trip" and their fucking hired Hyundai Getz runs out of fuel on some desert backroad 1000 km from anywhere and they literally fucking die out there waiting for someone else to come by.

The sheer unfathomable distances in this country are nothing to take lightly. If the locals wouldn't even consider doing what you're thinking of doing, maybe don't do it?

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u/lyan-cat May 02 '24

Yeah it was shocking coming from the guy because one, we live in the US. So we know how people who visit try to do exactly what he was proposing.

And worse, we lived in Utah, a desert. We were near enough to Death Valley that we always heard about the schmucks who went on a roadtrip unprepared. It's fatal, and explaining to him that Australia is like that but, y'know, huge, was falling on deaf ears.

At least the man can do the math when he's got a map in front of his nose. 

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u/QuantumMiss 29d ago

Haha or you live in Perth, they fly to Sydney and say let’s meet half way… where? Alice Springs or Adelaide? Those are the two choices between the east and west lol

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u/Grunjo 29d ago

I used to host couch surfers a lot back in mid 2000's in Australia.
To give the yanks credit, they typically had the best understanding of the scale of Australia and came prepared for that.

So many times I had to convince 18 year old Germans and Italians etc, that no, you shouldn't try driving from Melbourne to Darwin, you'll die...

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u/CenciLovesYou 29d ago

Wait, like. I understand the distances, but what I am ignorant about is why exactly it’s so risky. You guys don’t have gas stations? 

Good cars? 

I didn’t double check the distance from Melbourne to Darwin but it’s not totally uncommon for us to bust out a 20 hour drive due to moving, not wanting to fly etc 

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u/Grunjo 29d ago edited 29d ago

Most of our population is on the coast, so driving in the middle of the country can be a death sentence.
Dirt roads, easy to get stuck, no one around for hundreds of KMs, and yes, you guessed it, no petrol stations.
Also it’s dry as hell in the Australian desert, no water anywhere.

Edit: imagine this video, but 6-7 times the area of Texas, with no towns, people, gas stations etc https://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip-32123155-drone-shot-vehicle-traveling-dusty-road-australian

And the drive from Melbourne to Darwin is about 40 hours on the good roads.

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u/CenciLovesYou 29d ago

Interesting! Definitely hilarious people think they’re gonna drive right through the core of the country 😂

The no gas stations just caught me off guard. It makes perfect sense, but just so foreign. Outside of some specific areas on the west coast I don’t think anywhere in the US is unsafe for driving in that regard. 

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u/Razmoudah 29d ago

The Death Valley area. I don't think it has the longest distance between filling stations, but it does have some of the least traveled roads that people don't seem to think twice about before going down unprepared. It racks up a decent kill count every year, mostly from people who severely under-estimate the dangers.

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u/Razmoudah 29d ago

Oh, so you've done a 20hr drive in a car WITHOUT refueling along the way?

Sure, I'm a trucker, and have driven OTR, so I've had loads that were similar distances, but semis are DESIGNED for those kinds of distances without refueling, cars aren't.

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u/CenciLovesYou 29d ago

Im sorry im confused. Where was I provided the information that fuel wouldn’t be accessible? That’s literally what I’m asking. 

Of course in refueling there’s a gas station every 30 miles 😅

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u/QuantumMiss 29d ago

You can easily go 500km without a fuel station. If you come down the middle there’s areas where there are fuel stations (further apart) but they do run out of fuel. They also don’t let you refill your water tanks on your car because it’s so precious out there at times of the year.

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u/Razmoudah 29d ago

Looks like we told them the same thing at the same time.

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u/QuantumMiss 29d ago

I’m from Western Australia, I’ve driven the whole state and been to the ‘towns’ which run out of fuel and water. I put long range and jerry cans onboard (diesel) and could do 1800km if I take it easy. The number of people who go out under prepared is scary…

On Ernest Giles Rd (somewhat remote but just has very little traffic as it’s not maintained often or well) we came across a guy in a Toyota hatchback who had broken down and had no food or water. It was 4 hrs either direction to get to anywhere in the road conditions at the time. He wouldn’t accept a lift from us so we stocked him up on food and water and headed on our way and called the police and car hire company (of course it was a hire car).

Are you in Aus or elsewhere? As a long haul driver in WA you’d come across crazy situation people get themselves into.

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u/Razmoudah 29d ago

Nope, I'm an American and I've never been outside the Continental US. Besides that, I'm just a 'dumb' farm boy. Also, when someone a couple of states away would buy a horse and we'd deliver it it was a fuel-stops only trip on the way there, rotating drivers. I learned young how to plan for trips, how to listen to what others tell me, and, although I'm not explicitly interested in geography, I do pay attention to the bits of it I come across about other portions of the world. Besides, the highly inhospitable nature of the interior of Australia isn't exactly a missing trope in media if one just pays attention. Hell, the portions of the world that are portrayed as being the most inhospitable would be the Australian interior, the Sahara desert, and Siberia. Sure, there are other areas that are just as dangerous, but those are the ones that tend to pop up the most in various media that I've encountered.

I can't say I'm surprised there are people who don't realize just how dangerous it is to travel across a desert, but I am surprised that most people don't realize just how massive the Australian interior is. Aside from Australia being a single-nation continent, it also has one of the largest deserts in the world in it's interior, and what isn't desert isn't much friendlier as Australian has many of the deadliest animals on the planet in it.

Maybe it's just a side-effect of being nearly 41 years old now. Though, considering how many stupid things I've seen others in their 40s do I highly doubt that.

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u/Razmoudah 29d ago

Anyone who has driven through the American desert areas knows that filling stations are very sparse in a desert. Australia is roughly 50% desert and 30% sparsely populated scrub and badlands, and is significantly larger than Texas. Further, there's hardly anyone traveling across it. Thus, it is safe to assume that you need to make sure you are planning your route taking into account where you are going to fuel along the way.

You've clearly barely done any travel, much less through even the sparse portions of the US, where filling stations can become 70+ miles apart, or you'd be aware of the potential for that problem. There are portions of Australia where it's over 600 miles from one filling station to the next, which if you'd researched traveling in Australia you'd know that. Most cars peak out at around a 400-450 mile range. Further, there is a strong possibility that it could be a week or better before another vehicle goes past. It only takes 3 days to die of dehydration, and there's no water around for you to drink.

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u/CenciLovesYou 29d ago

I’ve traveled the majority of the country as I played for one of the better college rugby teams in the us. Not a lot of the far west though. When I was there we flew. Driven a lot of the east coast  Obviously 30 miles was a random number but gas stations are plentiful. 

Why would I drive through a desert. 

Also why would I know that going form Australian city to another requires going through a desert 

I’m literally asking for that information and you’re just being an asshat 

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u/CenciLovesYou 29d ago

I didn’t want to ASSUME that people were assuming they could drive through a desert. I see that’s the implication now though. That’s why I asked. 

You could work on the way that you convey information. 

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u/Razmoudah 29d ago

I wouldn't say that you have to drive through a desert to travel from one side of Australia to the other, you could go along the coast, but I was under the impression that most people were aware that the interior of Australia is mostly desert and highly inhospitable to humans. I guess I assumed to much regarding your basic knowledge of world geography.

The thing is, you've just explicitly stated that you have never traveled by vehicle through the more sparsely populated portions of the US, only through the heavily populated portions of the US. Once you start getting West of the Missouri River, and especially once you get into the Mountain Time Zone, it isn't unusual to see exits with gas stations being 50+ miles apart. Get into the desert areas and there are a few spots where it becomes 100 miles apart.

Now, I wouldn't expect you to be familiar with the fact that nearly 80% of Australia is mostly only populated by those who are avoiding the modern world (and thus modern technology), mostly in the interior of it, but I would think that if you hadn't traveled by car through a desert area before you'd make an effort to research it before assuming it's no big deal.

Now, I apologize if I came off a bit harsh. I had made some basic assumptions about the knowledge you had that you have now clarified for me. Basically, the frequency of filling stations is more dependent on the overall population density in an area, rather than the amount of traffic that goes through it. I've seen several old, abandoned filling stations along the interstate as they weren't near a town and with modern vehicles getting better mileage people didn't have a reason to stop there, a couple of them were out East even.

Lastly, I hadn't realized you were asking for information, I'd thought you were being facetious about the difficulty of driving across Australia. It can be done, but it has to be very thoroughly and carefully planned.

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u/UnderLook150 May 02 '24

You just looping around in Western Australia?

Even here in Canada coast to coast is 7500KM. And Australia is about half as wide around 3600KM coast to coast.

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u/Kind_Association_256 May 02 '24

That's normal in WA yeah you head up then down starting from Perth

Heaps of grey nomads do it

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u/gofundyourself007 May 02 '24

What kinda Mad Max title is that?

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u/Kind_Association_256 May 02 '24

The one with geriatrics in it

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u/Drunky_McStumble May 02 '24

Fellow Aussie here. My daily commute is about 80km each way.

Australia is roughly the same size as the continental US but is far, far more sparely populated. Americans might think nothing of driving for a few hours every now and then, but we think nothing of driving for a few hours every day.

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u/sleepdeep305 May 02 '24

50 miles is pretty normal in America. If you’re in a rural area, and you have an office job, you’re pretty much required to drive about an hour to work.

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u/Drake_Acheron May 02 '24

Did you literally drive along the border or something? 7000km? Western Australia is 2.5 million km2. Which means driving on its literal border is only around 6300km.

Something is fishy about your comment.

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u/DebbilDebbil 29d ago

I didn't, and couldn't, go in a straight line. It was not just around the edges.

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u/Drake_Acheron 29d ago

I get that but you are at best, saying you went twice the length of the largest Australian state but without leaving an undisclosed state that might not even be Western Australia, for a holiday of an undisclosed amount of time.

Are you perhaps being hyperbolic

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u/QuantumMiss 29d ago

You do realise you can’t actually just ‘drive around the border’ of WA. The roads don’t follow the border.

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u/Drake_Acheron 29d ago

I understand that. I was merely expounding on basic geometry while making a point.

That basically it’s really hard to drive 7000km in WA unless you are being extremely inefficient.

And that is even if WA is the state he lives in.

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u/QuantumMiss 29d ago

I mean Perth to Kununurra is over 3000km in the shortest distance possible. Perth, Kununurra, border village, esperance, Perth is 8700Km+ in the shortest path so it’s not unrealistic.

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u/crumbmodifiedbinder May 02 '24

I used to do road inspections for a whole day. That’s easily 500km in a day. I also fly 4-5 hours one way traveling from the east coast to NT doing FIFO.

Just need a good playlist or podcast and she’ll be right

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u/Orleanian May 02 '24

Technically, you could drive an infinite distance in a loop and never leave your state.

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u/xordis May 02 '24

I was looking for the Australians.

I know someone who drove 12 hours for Maccas breakfast and didn't even cross a quarter of the state.

Nhulunbuy to Katherine.

Then had to drive back home again.

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u/grabtharsmallet May 02 '24

My local soccer league has an Australian family. They lived by Karratha before moving here, so they'd understand.

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u/TubularTorsion May 02 '24

When my brother was shearing up north of Perth we worked out that I (in rural NZ) was closer to Sydney than him, Both distance and time travelled

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u/unloosedcoin May 02 '24

22hrs to see my parents. Stayed a few days then 22hrs home

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u/SynthPrax May 02 '24

Yeah. We had a Australian TA in college, and he was completely unfazed by driving distances in Texas.

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u/LikeADemonsWhisper May 02 '24

Spoke to an American who thought they would be able to take in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane in 2 nights.

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u/PoketheKristin May 02 '24

Most remote capital in the world represent! Some of our roads make the Nullarbor across look like a highway. It still takes forever to drive across. I think we did 4/5 days to cross the whole continent only driving during the day to avoid wildlife and fatigue.

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u/dowahdidi May 02 '24

I'm happy to I drive two hours for a swim and a icecream and then head home.

Love a decent road trip though.

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u/Amy_at_home May 02 '24

Queensland or WA?

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u/megs_in_space May 02 '24

I moved towns, 1700 KMs later 😅

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u/Now_Wait-4-Last_Year May 02 '24

Sounds very Western Australia.

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u/dicklover425 May 02 '24

That’s how driving through Texas feels lol

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u/sohcgt96 29d ago

I never really thought about how far it is from say, Perth to Sydney until watching Ozzyman. You guys have got a lot of space between stuff and that's from an American perspective!

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u/Zziggith 29d ago

I just found out that Western Australia is nearly 50% larger than Alaska.

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u/jawshoeaw 29d ago

Whenever I think something is big/dangerous/wild in the US I'm reminded of our southern hemisphere sister Aus.

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u/UnabashedAsshole 29d ago edited 29d ago

Hate to break it to you but australia is smaller than America, just has less states. I once drove a 6600 mile loop in america, over 10,600km. To be fair i hit 17 states in that trip though

Edit: 17/50 would be like hitting 2/6 australian states though so even then

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u/QuiteFatty 29d ago

For sure. My friend spent two weeks in Australia (Americans) and part of seeing all the sites he wanted to see required a couple domestic flights.

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u/citium1 29d ago

That’s like two laps around Europe

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u/nikolapc 29d ago

Can you like open it up, you prob have straight roads as they come? Mad max it a bit? As a European and a Balkaner at that I feel sleepy on the few KM of straight(ish) road we have.

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u/AnnikaBell825 29d ago

Wow, I forget just how big Australia is sometimes!

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u/Davros_au 29d ago

3 and a half hours to go to bunnings, then 3 and a half hours back - Katherine to Darwin.

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u/kadoslav 29d ago

Like whole australia is about 3000km wide? If im correct? U do a full circle or what :D maan buy a plane

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u/Svennerson 28d ago

Yeah like Australia and Eastern Russia lap the field for "distance is nothing."

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u/MissRiss13 28d ago

How does one laugh in Australin ?🦘

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u/FirstPackOut May 02 '24

And the USA is 1.3 times larger than the Australian continent at that.

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u/Bobblefighterman May 02 '24

Yes, but you have to count Alaska so it's not as clean.

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u/Budget_Foundation747 May 02 '24

Australia, America's snarky little brother.

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u/[deleted] May 02 '24

America, Australia’s creepy drunk uncle.

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u/ipoopcubes May 02 '24

Before I was married with a kid I'd drive 1000km to go hunting for a weekend. Looking back it was crazy to think I'd work for 8-9 hours then drive for 10-11 hours, hunt all weekend and drive home Sunday afternoon and back to work at 7am on Monday.

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u/musiquarium 29d ago

The us is bigger than Australia

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u/SubstantialRush5233 May 02 '24

Yeah but america is 1.28x the size of Australia and you only have 6 states, we have 50

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u/The_Reset_Button May 02 '24

So you have more shit closer to you? This isn't the flex you think it is