• BurntPunk@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Where are you that’s 4.5 hrs from Tennessee and 6 hours from Florida? I can hit the Florida line from Birmingham in about 3.5, and can be on Nashville in about the same… meaning I can drive from the Tennessee line to Florala in about 6 hours- and that’s the whole state lol.

    • MuhammadJesusGaySex@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’m in Birmingham, but I have 2 kids and a fabled partner. I typed in my address to perdido key and got 5.5 hours nonstop. I used that as a reference because it’s right across the line, and there’s a good reason to be there. That’s why I made the joke of 6.5 hours or 5.5 hours if I don’t stop. I also mentioned that trip was interstate only. There are slightly faster ways to go, but involve leaving the interstate.

      I also picked Perdido because when my mom kidnapped me when I was 5 and eventually legally divorced my dad. I had to make the trip every other weekend from Perdido to Birmingham. We would meet halfway in Greenville Alabama. Until I was 8. That’s when she died and I moved back to Birmingham permanently. So, Perdido is a place right across the state line that is familiar to me.

      Then I qualified that trip to Tennessee with “I think”, because I am very poor, and just like Mississippi I have no reason to go there even if I had money enough to do so. The last time I went to Tennessee it took like 4.5 hours to get where I was going I think. But, unlike Florida I didn’t care enough to pick a point and actually type it into google maps to figure out the length of time it would take.

      So, you caught me. I guesstimated one of my destinations.