Re: [TML] Parental Advisory - The Group (was: Campaign writeups) Jeff Zeitlin 19 May 2020 10:49 UTC
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. :) ®Traveller is a registered trademark of Far Future Enterprises, 1977-2020. Use of the trademark in this notice and in the referenced materials is not intended to infringe or devalue the trademark. -- Jeff Zeitlin, Editor Freelance Traveller The Electronic Fan-Supported Traveller® Resource xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com http://www.freelancetraveller.com Freelance Traveller extends its thanks to the following enterprises for hosting services: onCloud/CyberWeb Enterprises (http://www.oncloud.io) The Traveller Downport (http://www.downport.com)