Where can you be…
Nowhere…
OK.
Any place you want to mention…
Me (beat this):
Vienna, Salzburg, Venice, Northweestern Bosnia, Eastern Hungary, and my favourite - the whole Istrian peninsula…
This will soon be moved to IMHO…
If I drove for three hours in any direction (except west, since there’s an ocean there) I’d still be in California.
North: I think…somewhere around Oak Ridge or Athens, TN. Depending on speed, almost into Knoxville.
Northeast: Gaffney, SC
East: At least Augusta, GA, don’t know how much further.
West: Birmingham, AL…maybe as far as Tuscaloosa, AL
Southwest: Montgomery, AL, maybe.
South: Through Macon, GA, perhaps to Valdosta, but I think that’s further.
Can also make it to: the Lyons/Vidalia GA metroplex.
I guess I could get the cabbie to go around Central Park a couple hundred times. Or once, if there’s traffic and a Street Fair on Columbus Ave.
Off to IMHO.
Northeast: Boston, MA
East: Providence or Newport, RI
Southwest: Trenton, NJ passing NYC on the way
North: Albany, NY
West: Scranton, PA
In general terms, I could get to NJ, NY, CT, PA, MA, RI, NH, VT, and ME. 9 of the 50 states. Not a bad little circle.
I could go West to Kingston, ON
East to Quebec City, QC
South to Albany, NY
North… there ain’t nuthin’ up there I need to visit.
North: Vancouver, BC
South: Portland, OR
East: Moses Lake, WA
West: About 40 miles off the Washington Coast off Aberdeen, WA.
Most of eastern West Virginia.
Richmond, Norfolk, Charlottesville.
Washington, DC
Baltimore, MD
Philly…Pittsburgh if I REALLY made time.
Frostburg, MD, of course.
North: past Manhattan…Connecticut if I pushed it.
South: Baltimore.
East: THREE hours? Somewhere in the Ocean. In less time, the Atlantic coast in New Jersey.
West: not quite sure…definitely somewhere past Harrisburg, probably in the mountains.
I live in San Francisco AND I don’t drive AND I rarly leave my room, so in 3 hours, I’ll be right here reading the SDMB.
Madison, Milwaukee, Green Bay, La Crosse WI
Peoria, Springfield, Decatur, Rockford, Galena IL
Iowa City, Davenport, Dubuque IA
Gary, Indianapolis, South Bend, Lafayette, IN
Lansing and Detroit, MI
St Louis, MO
Bedford, KY
Columbus, OH
Lorenzo,
Just exactly what are you driving? I live 2 1/2 hours from Columbus, and I am at least 2 hours from Chicago. And if it takes you 3 hours to get to Indy, then how can you make it to Columbus in 3 hours?
Starting from near Cleveland, these are mostly a bit under 3 hours-
Columbus (SW), Pittsburgh (SE), Toledo (W), Buffalo (NE). I’m not sure how far I’d get going straight east. Being on the lake, going straight north would leave me really wet.
Good question. I’m in Columbus, and have driven to Chicago from here. Takes much longer than three hours.
In three hours (give or take,) I can be in:
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In three hours I can drive along one of the most magnificent pieces of coastline in the world (Great Ocean Road), I can enter a World Heritage Listed Wilderness area, I can be on a snow-covered mountaintop, or in a desert. I can visit a renowned fossil-bed (Inverloch), I can sit atop an extinct volcano, I can go gold-panning or gem fossicking or whale-watching and sugar-glider spotting.
Or, like everyone else, I could get stuck on the Tullamarine freeway and spend 3 hours cursing the stupid CityLink system.
Oh, I live in Melbourne, Australia.
I live in the small city of Thunder Bay, which is in north-western Ontario, Canada, on the north-western shore of Lake Superior – a massive fresh water lake. I am two days’ drive from Ontario’s provincial capital, Toronto; one day’s drive from Manitoba’s provincial capital, Winnipeg; and one day’s drive from Minnesota’s state capital, St. Paul, and it’s adjoinging city Minneapolis.
Three hours east is Marathon, which is a small town at the top of Superior. Between here and there is some amazingly rugged scenery along the north shore or Superior and a couple of even smaller towns, including Terrace Bay, with its remarkable beaches. It is a world class scenic drive that I never grow tired of.
Three hours south is Duluth, which is a delightful city with a rejuvenated dock area, and on the way is the small artist’s/vacation town of Grand Marais. These places remind me that there is a civilized world out there.
Three hours west is the small town of Ft. Frances, with the smaller Atikokan on the way. The trip itself runs inland through the lovely shield country on the northern side of the Quetico/Boundary Waters Canoe Area. More little lakes than you can shake a stick at.
Three hours north is the Armstrong whistle stop and a whole lot of wilderness. Usually I fly in rather than drive, for the road is rough. And trust me, when I say wilderness, I’m not exaggerating. The scale of northern-Ontario’s wilderness is quite something.
Well I live on an island and can go anywhere in … 90 minutes.
Unless it’s rush hour, whoo boy.
I could make a nice leisurely 3 hour loop around the Ko’olaus though.
North: San Louis Obispo, Ca
South: Mexico, or San Deigo if I obey speed laws
East: The middle of freakin nowhere
West: A watery grave
North - Seattle
East - eastern Oregon
South - southern Oregon
West - really, really wet (I’m not sure, and I’m not going to try it, but I think the bike would stop running a few yards after entering the salt water…)
NORTH (and kinda east): Chicago
DUE NORTH: southern suburbs of Rockford, IL
EAST: Indianapolis-ish
SOUTHEAST: The woods somewhere around Indiana/Kentucky
SOUTH: The vast wasteland that is southern Illinois.
SOUTHWEST: Rolla, MO
WEST: Somewhere in north-central Missouri.
NORTHWEST:Somewhere in southeastern Iowa.