On 19/5/20 8:49 pm, Jeff Zeitlin wrote:
> On Tue, 19 May 2020 08:58:57 +0100, Timothy Collinson - timothy.collinson
> at port.ac.uk (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote to Freelance
> Traveller:
>
>>> This is one of the significant differences between Europeans and Americans
>>> or Australians... Europeans think 100 miles (150km) is a long distance.
>> Well it is!
> Even in the dense eastern states, 100-150 miles is considered viable for a
> day trip - it's not at all unusual, for example, for civil service unions
> in NYC to arrange a day trip to Albany NY (closer to 150 miles than 100
> miles) to lobby the state legislature for some bit of favored legislation.
> Board the (chartered) busses in Manhattan at 8 AM, be in Albany around 11
> AM, lobby, lunch, more lobby, board the busses back to NYC around 3 PM,
> debark in Manhattan where you started around 6 PM.
>
> At one point, the company my father worked for had some big customers in
> the Boston MA area; my father was based in NYC (but dealt with any customer
> anywhere in the world if high-powered technical knowledge of the company's
> products was needed). It wasn't at all unusual for him to drive up in the
> morning, put in a full day's worth of consulting with a customer (usually
> pretty intense, so compressing what would normally be eight hours of work
> into about five), have dinner with his company's regional VP afterward, and
> drive back to sleep at home - he'd get on the road at about 7AM, and get
> back around 11PM.  Distance from NYC to Boston, 225 miles.
>
> So, no, it's not a long distance.   :)
>
150km?  That was my daily round-trip travel for senior high school back
at the bitter end of the 20th century (years 11 and 12, 1999-2000).

First bus outbound departed at 7:30 am, second bus departed ~7:50 am,
lobbed at school ~8:30 am.

First bus homebound departed at 4:10 pm, second bus departed ~5pm,
lobbed home 5:20 pm or so.