Would you want to stay for at least X hours? 2X? 4X? Something else?
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.
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.
Depends where.
DMV? 0h.
Family? 2x minimum.
Friends? Whatever I can get.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.
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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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
I’ve done .25x so I guess it depends how good the destination is and who I’m going with.
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!
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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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I’d say x1.5 the amount of that time.
But sometimes the journey is more important than destination.
X hours. I prefer 2X hours, but X is my minimum.
So you’re saying a 1:1 travel to staying ratio?
I think it’s a 2:1 ratio because it’s X hours traveling there, X hours spent at the location, and then X hours coming back home, totaling 2X hours in transit.
At least a much time there as time to get there. Not the round trip time.
Preferably, at least as much time there as round trip time. However, I have violated this, so it is clearly not my limit.
Technically, I have stayed for shorter times. Those were not “for fun” trips and had important goals attached.
I am also discounting all one-way trips of less than an hour.
