Holland has so much space

You can drive 13 hours from NYC and still be in NYC. A sane mind cannot comprehend this.
- Especially if you take the tunnel
- The truelly scary part is you only be a mile away if your lucky :)
- First time visiting, i arrived in Sāo Paulo in a Bus, when i saw the sign "Welcome to Sāo Paulo i stood up and started to get my things... When we got to the São Paulo Bus Station, 5 hours later, i understood why the other passengers were very amused by my behavior.
- A fitting punishment for choosing to drive in NYC
  
  I know so many people who choose to drive. It blows my mind. Like, yeah, the subways can be frustrating, but nowhere near as frustrating as driving in the city.
  Bikes are the best way to get around the city.
- What kind of crazy person drives in NYC?
  
  Some of us have no choice. I drive for work sometimes and jesus it’s so frustrating. Can turn a 12hr work day into a 16hr one.

If you drove circles around my neighborhood for 13 hours, you'd still be in my neighborhood. The non-local area'n mind cannot comprehend this.
- If you sit in the car and make engine noises for 13 hours you'd still be in my driveway! The adult mind cannot comprehend this.
  
  13 hours from now I'll still be on the couch...
  
  If I sat in my car and made engine noises for 13 hours, I'd die from carbon monoxide poisoning. My adult mind cannot comprehend this.
- Mind. Circled.
  
  I can drive for like 2 minutes in my mind and still be in my mind. Beyond that I'm more limited by my attention span than the amount of space I can imagine.
- get in car
  drive for 13 hours
  still at home
  wtf how?
  
  It's called sim racing addiction.

I can walk 13 hours in my bedroom and still be in my bedroom. An insane mind cannot comprehend this.
- Doesn't make sense. Can you prove it?

Well that trip has maybe 1 hour in Holland. The rest is other provinces.
- 🤫 They don't know that
  
  Are nether lands anything like nether regions?
- Everyone knows Holland = Netherlands = Holland

You can cycle for 13 hours anywhere in the country and still be alive, usa'nean mind can't comprehend this
- This is who I expected to be delivering that line

Gru when he sees one of his adopted daughters:

You can walk 13 hours towards Mordor and still not be in Mordor. One does not simply walk into Mordor.
- It's funny how Google Maps has a reference to this if you tell it to give you walking directions to "Mordor".
  Although I don't think it works with every starting location.

Damn, that meme really struck a nerve with the Europeans, huh?
- As someone from neither place - I'm guessing it didn't strike a nerve, so much as it struck a funny bone.
  There's just something ludicrous about the phrasing.
  
  I just liked the meme
- Dunno, but 13 hours is not that much really. I can drive for more than 13 hours straight, in Italy, without going in circles, staying on the highway, traveling between two region capitals and not counting the islands. And it's Italy, not exactly the biggest country in the world. Or even in Europe.
  PS: in August that's 24hrs
  
  It may not be the biggest by area, but it sure is a long boy.
- It is more like a ridiculous argument that we are now ridiculing.
  Show me one person who brags about driving in a single location for so many hours, outside of the memes.
  
  It didn't really seem like an argument to me... more like a joke that some people took way too seriously.

You can drive in Russia for 161 hours and still be in Russia:
- And that's not even a lap like the OP's picture (if Russia even has such roads to approximate driving the perimeter)
  
  Best joke of the day! You wouldn't even consider the road across a road, lmao, perimeter.
- Yeah, but plenty of the land contributed to Russia doesn't belong to them, so its fake
  
  To Magadan!
- You can drive 30minutes into Russia and end up in Ukraine! No matter where you start from
  
  If you are male russian citizen between age of 18 and 30, that is not currently a student, then yes. Or doctor of any age.

New friend: "hey, we live close, why don't you come over?"
You: go full circle through the whole country to get there
- It’s like that one time in Australia when the road was closed
- Better to book a flight to circumnavigate the globe first.

You can drive 13 hours from R'lyeh and still be in R'lyeh, the euclidean mind cannot comprehend this.

Holland is only the western part of the netherlands.
- Muricans trying to make euromemes. Notlikethis.png
  Or at least that's what it feels like

I mean, if we wanna be silly about it
Bonus, here's my travels from my home-state from my current home to my girlfriend's home-state, back and to where we are planning on moving next year.
- 63 hours? Pffft. Driving in Russia for 161 hours:
  
  161 hours is a very optimistic estimation... given the extreme weather conditions and the awful roads at the far east.

That's just cause y'all's roads are slow.
Texas has many roads with 80/85mph limits. (128/136kph)
- I was in Texas for the eclipse. It messed me up driving on little two lane country roads with a 75mph speed limit. Back home only the big highways get close to that
- Is that scale real?
  
  Yes! Check out https://www.thetruesize.com/
  
  Yeah, I-10 goes straight across the western most to Eastern most part of Texas and is almost 900 miles long. The average US state is larger than the average European country if you only count Russia west of the Urals. Europeans think of the US as a country similar to the UK or Germany when theu really need to think of it more like the EU and each state it's own country. New York City to Los Angeles is almost exactly the same distance as Moscow to Portugal. Seattle to Miami is like London to Bagdad.
  
  I didn’t see no banana!
- And you can still drive 13 hours and stay in Texas.
- Laughs in no speed limit

After seeing the other post a minute ago. This is the shit posting that I love to see.

TIL in Texas and Holland you can only drive on a road once.

Best of all, you can likely make that same lap on bicycle as well as the cycling infrastructure is beyond awesome.
- I want that here. I feel like so much less of a dying lazy ass when I bike places. I also don't zonk out and suddenly realize I'm at the destination with no recollection of anything leading up to it since getting into the car.

Sir this is a circle
- In Europe you can drive around a roundabout for 13 hours the American mind can not comprehend this.
  
  In Europe you can drive around a roundabout ~~for 13 hours~~ the American mind can not comprehend this.
  
  That is actually not legal in Germany. It is forbidden to drive without a reason although this almost never actually gets controlled by anyone.
  
  We have roundabouts. They're just rare and the drivers become temporarily retarded when going in/out of them.

You can drive for an unlimited amount of time as long as you circle around the streets of your city
- Doesn't count

I have actually encountered this phenomenon, and it involves neither Americans nor Europeans. I live in Korea, and I'm from Canada. I've had to explain that no, I have never been to Vancouver because it's something like 8000 km from where I lived on the opposite coast in Canada. At least a couple weeks of driving. In Korea, the furthest you can be from anywhere is about a four-hour drive.

Apparently it only takes 9hrs to drive around Moscow. US guys, your time to shine! I bet you'd have a city that would take more time to drive around than Netherlands
- Nope, even New York is smaller.
  Russia 1 : US 0
  
  Now try it with New York traffic.
  
  Not sure how you'd drive around NY (on a boat?), but I was pretty sure that DFW is at least just as big - must be, given how it's population is only 2x smaller, but consists mostly of suburbs that consume vastly more space per person compared to Moscow's commieblocks. There's no neat circle roads there, though, but taking even the most encompassing route (which is fair game given how Moscow's ring road also wraps around a lot of area not under Moscow jurisdiction) it still takes less time, even though the distance is higher.

Is Lemiers really Holland, though?

I can drive 12 hours across BC and just barely hit the border. The short way.
- Do it for no PST.
  
  Or, you know, go down to washington state, which hasnt fucked over BC's envrionment and doesnt take 4 tanks of gas to get therr and back.

If you drive the border of Texas it is a trip more than 40 hours long. Two straight days of non-stop driving. The US is stupid big and has an insane amount of roadways, you could drive your whole life and have roads you have never been on.
- This meme is a joke. Of course the Netherlands is absolutely tiny, of course you can drive further in pretty much every US state.
- and yet people are homeless
  
  And no room for immigrants
- Haha. Two days. Tiny. Itty bitty state. Not even as big as New South Wales.
- This has me curious about the extremes of the relationship between perimeter length and area of various states. Time to go down a YouTube rabbithole I think, stand up maths probably has something on it.

13 hour drive that’s like Kansas pfff lol. At least it feels like 14 hours every time I drive across it

I'm reasonably sure that that route neither begins nor ends in Holland. I think Holland is the western area of the Netherlands, not the northernmost bit.

Now I want to know how long it would take to circumnavigate other countries and states in a leaderboard
- Starting with Russia.

- There are still people alive calling Iran Persia. It will take a while until Holland rebranding to Netherlands will take over, whole generations learned about Holland in school and will continue to use that name until the day they die.
  
  I'm 28 and it was usually called Holland in school... I'm Estonian, so maybe the news just got here later, we're supposedly pretty slow.

13hrs from Pensacola, FL to Key West, FL. 832 mi / 1340 km

It's about twice the size of New Jersey ...
- I mean if you take your time and cherry pick it, you might be able to touch 5 or six states in the trip.
  Using texas as scale was funny, but you could fit that entirely in most states pretty easily.

In about a century it'll be quite a bit smaller than it is now, meaning that 13 hours it takes to drive the Nether- I mean Holland would become... I'm guessing 10 hours (I have no idea how to calculate stuff like this myself, so please downvote this comment if I'm too far away from the correct answer)
- Smaller? We'll just have to re-annex some stubborn province to the south then. We don't do smaller.
  
  So... Flanders becomes Dutch then?
  If I managed to get Belgian citizenship right before that happens, will it get immediately invalidated and replaced with a Dutch citizenship? Or will I get to have both at the same time?

Yes, but then you have to see fields of tulips instead of glorious pine trees!
- As an American, I’d probably die if I had to see all of those tulips.
  
  The Netherlands is just tulips and stroopwafels, change my mind.

A what mind? Are they trying to say American? Do people not know that word anymore?
- J. O. K. E.
- Its a meta meme refrencing a meme that hit front page earlier