Would you want to stay for at least X hours? 2X? 4X? Something else?
More than 1h drive and I should spend half a day there.
More than 2h, I should plan the whole day (leaving in the morning and coming back end of the day)
More than 4 hours and I need to spend at least a night there before coming back.
I don’t like to drive long distance at all. Obviously, all of that depend what I’m doing there.
I would want to stay for as long as I enjoyed it and no longer, no matter how long it took to get there.
I really wanted to try taco bell. Unfortunately the nearest taco bell to where I live is 4 hours away. So one day I hopped in my car, drove 4 hours, crossed a country border and ordered some. I ordered almost the entire menu which was only like 5 different items. Then I drove back 4 hours, eating my taco bell order.
So that gives some perspective as to how long I’m willing to stay somewhere
How high were you to think an 8 hour round trip for taco bell was worth it?
You put way too much trust into fake meat.
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7X. If I have to travel a day to go on vacation I will be staying for at least a week.
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X/2+7 is like the 80-20 rule: it fits 80% of the time.
Given a travel time of X, half that time plus 7 more hours seems reasonable, until it isn’t. 1 hour? Full day. 2 hours? Also a full day. 8 hours? Now were talking 2 days with an overnight expense and 80% per diem.
Math. It works.
Isn’t that also the equation for finding your youngest possible date? I’m 27 and according to that my lower limit is 20.5.
It’s like the 80-20 rule, I say!
Do you mind explaining a little more? How do you get two days from 8 hours (8/2 + 7 = only 11 hours not 48)?
Edit: Oh, because nobody’s spending 8 hours traveling and then 11 hours at the place and then going back home without staying overnight.
I’ve done .25x so I guess it depends how good the destination is and who I’m going with.
I’d say x1.5 the amount of that time.
But sometimes the journey is more important than destination.
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Why are you traveling to make a call? You could just call.
I interpreted that in the sense of “service call”, like going out to some remote site to do something menial
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Depends on what I’m there for. I’ve done 0.8X for a pretty long trip and would have gone faster if it wasn’t for bureaucracy.
PS i dont enjoy traveling
Generally around 3-4X for me, except if I’m riding a motorcycle or driving a sports car, where the travelling is the main event.
I drive to the office once a fortnight. 4 hours driving total for 6 hours there. It’s necessary and recharges my enthusiasm because we have a great team.
2 6 2
So 3x or 60/40
X + 4 at minimum but it’s very situationally dependent.
Yeah, but for short trips this doesn’t apply. E.g. I might drive 30 minutes for a 10 minute stay/task.
