What is your most "far-fetched" commute to date?

[kamikaze27]

Originally posted by: bobsmith1492
Sophomore year (two years ago), first time in my engineering co-op job (and first time at a big corporation, too), I drove 65.8 miles each way so I could live at my parents' house (this was over the summer.) I decided to come in at 7:00 AM; this meant that I woke up each day at 4:20 AM and got back around 5:00 PM.

It took some getting used to; it also completely ruined my driving skills. I got used to driving while mostly asleep, so now I'm always slightly out of it when I drive. I had to, on occasion, prop my eyelids open with one hand so my eyes didn't shut. It's not that I fall asleep, but my eyes just close down on me.

P.S.: how can you get there ten minutes faster on your bike???!

I can get everywhere faster on my bike.

 

[hjo3]

Originally posted by: kamikaze27
The mfc expanded and relocated 30 miles away, this week, it takes me f 55mins in my car, and 45mins on my bike!

You can pedal your bike at 40 MPH for 45 minutes?

 

[DivideBYZero]

Top commute was ~75 miles one way.

 

[sygyzy]

What is a "far-fetched" commute? What does it mean?

 

[kamikaze27]

Originally posted by: hjo3

Originally posted by: kamikaze27
The mfc expanded and relocated 30 miles away, this week, it takes me f 55mins in my car, and 45mins on my bike!

You can pedal your bike at 40 MPH for 45 minutes?

Some of us do live in the city.

 

[potato28]

45 minutes walking. I now have a 7 minute walk

 

[clamum]

10-15 mins

 

[tomywishbone]

Just finished a 12 day thing (TV & film) commute was 62 miles each way. The dough was good but that drive was absurd. Oh, I live in Santa Monica.

Edit: I could not have done it for months... much less years.

 

[James3shin]

drove about an hour, maybe an hour and a half to pick up a date.

 

[Doggiedog]

I knew someone who commuted from the Poconos to NYC everyday.

 

[xSauronx]

right now, its usually ~25 miles from home to the area i work in

once, maybe twice a week, i get sent south or east of wichita. its 130 miles or so one-way to our service area.

i dont care for the drive, thats for sure :/

 

[habib89]

i currently live about 40 miles from work.. takes me about 45 - 50 minutes if i leave my house at 5 or 6am... which is fine by me, i like getting off work early... i had a job once where i was living about 55 miles from work and it took at least 70 minutes to get to work... my shortest commute was 10 miles taking about 30 mins in traffic

 

[KarmaPolice]

My dad use to drive two hours to white plains NY to work...that must have sucked....

Ride your bike...shorter..more fun...better for you.

 

[SoulAssassin]

I often commute ~3000 miles from DE to CA. I do consulting work and get sent pretty much everywhere. For a while this I was get California gigs every week.

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: kamikaze27
Mlast post as branch manager for a distribution branch saw me riding from one town to the next.

51 miles on single, then 4-carriage freeway. That used to take approx 45mins cos it was a popular stretch.

I landed a new post, less pay but I walk 5mins to work - 3 blocks! This I set up... For three months I was ecstatic!

The mfc expanded and relocated 30 miles away, this week, it takes me f 55mins in my car, and 45mins on my bike!

I already took a +-35% paycut to live 5mins walk away!

time to find another job

 

[nageov3t]

I had a super crazy commute at my old job, before I got my driver's license. it was 12 miles as the crow flies, but it took nearly 2 hours.

I got a ride from a friend/parent to the train station, took a train to exchange place in jersey city, took a ferry from jersey city to midtown manhattan, took another ferry from manhattan back over to Jersey, this time further up the coast in Weehawken. from weehawken, I either walked a half a mile through a construction site to my office or took a bus there (generally depended on the weather and whether or not the bus was there when I got off the ferry... in nice weather, I'd take the bus if it was there but wouldn't bother waiting for it if it wasn't).

nowadays that commute would be a lot easier, even without a license, now that the hudson bergen light rail goes right from jersey city to a block away from where I used to work.

 

[Dunbar]

I read an article a while back about "super commuters." These are people who would commute up to 3 hours each way to work. A lot were people who lived in small town America with little to no employment oppurtunities. So they would board a bus and sleep for the 3 hours it took to get to the big city. Than do the same thing at the end of the day! I cannot even imagine how that would be worth it!

 

[kamikaze27]

Originally posted by: Dunbar
I read an article a while back about "super commuters." These are people who would commute up to 3 hours each way to work. A lot were people who lived in small town America with little to no employment oppurtunities. So they would board a bus and sleep for the 3 hours it took to get to the big city. Than do the same thing at the end of the day! I cannot even imagine how that would be worth it!

Well, some time back when I was in Europe, in Lisbon they have about half mil ppl crossing over in a ferry and then 1 hour commute into the city, every day.

 

[AStar617]

My old commute | My gf's old commute

My current commute | My gf's current commute

...yes, she must love me, and yes, we both could use new jobs

 

[kamikaze27]

Originally posted by: AStar617
My old commute | My gf's old commute

My current commute | My gf's current commute

...yes, she must love me, and yes, we both could use new jobs

ok your g/f's ride is psychotic.