American Vacations - 3

Another thing about American vacations - a lot of them are spent visiting family.

When I take vacation days and visit my parents, I'm traveling 1550 miles as the crow flies. (Try using this handy dandy distance calculator.) This is the same distance as from London to Istanbul. I'm betting most Europeans can drop in on their parents a little more conveniently than that.

Visiting my daughter in Minneapolis would be a little better (1039 miles, about the same as London - Riga, Latvia), but it will be much worse when she moves back to L.A. (2342 miles, about the same as London to Timbuktu, Mali).

So don't bother comparing American travel to a London to Paris jaunt (213 miles). I driven that far to go shopping.