Would you want to stay for at least X hours? 2X? 4X? Something else?
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No. It depends on what I went to do.
Exactly. I once drove 12 hours to save $6k on shipping. I was there for 45 minutes while four pallets were loaded.
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.
It takes me over an hour to get almost anywhere (rural). I sometimes drive over an hour each way just to eat a meal out. The trade off is it makes my cost of living much, much lower. And I like driving, so I guess it’s not so bad for me.
Same! My psychologist and doctors are 40 min away, the big shops also, we have just the supermarket, the pharmacy and the post office near us, for everything else you need to drive a lot! And forget about public transport
For travel I usually use as a rule of thumb, that you need to stay the same number of days as there were hours in the flight to get there. So for example a quick two hour hop lends itself nicely to a weekend getaway, whereas a transcontinental flight implies staying a week or two. This tends to be advantageous anyway, for jet lag purposes.
Nifty.
If I hike up a hill for an hour, it was about the journey and I only need to stay at the top for 5 - 10 minutes.
It really depends, my friend was having a hard time once so in the evening I drove 3 hours to go see them, had a beer with them, then came home. I think it was absolutely worth it. I’ve also driven that far to buy something that took 15 minutes.
But say, a museum, I’d definitely want to make a day of it if I was driving that far. Maybe more.
If Neil Armstrong was resting this, he would laugh. So many months of preparation, just to walk a very short while on the moon
It’s not about the travel
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.
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.
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!
For a one night stand 1/4x. I guess it really depends on the action if you now what I mean.
It really depends.
To see friends? I’ll drive a few hours each way just to give some of them a hug and go.
I wanted to try bojangles and drove 3 hours to get there and made it a day trip to make it worth it (picked up some fireworks and did a few ith things while there), but more than 10 minutes to pick up a take out order is too long and 30 minutes is too long for a nice restaurant outing.
My parents are 30 minutes away, so 4 hours minimum to make it worth it.
7X. If I have to travel a day to go on vacation I will be staying for at least a week.
I would want to stay for as long as I enjoyed it and no longer, no matter how long it took to get there.
Depends where.
DMV? 0h.
Family? 2x minimum.
Friends? Whatever I can get.
I wouldn’t put a time on it.
I would drive for a dozen hours for things that last a few minutes.
JS Bach walked hundreds of miles to hear someone play the organ.
I love my audio books, so driving isn’t a huge complaint. I once drove 12 hours to hang out with family for Thanksgiving (~4 hours) and then drove back (another 12 hours).
2/3 of X^2 seems pretty close
Obviously it depends (for work when I can work on the train I am okay with longer journeys) but there has to be some sort of non-linearity involved, I agree!
Depends on other factors like who I’m meeting, time of day, etc. Purely on the time to get there though I think 2x minimum to make it feel worth it imo