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General Category => Random Talk => Topic started by: How-doFolks on November 20, 2012, 06:22:04 AM

Title: Drive to work
Post by: How-doFolks on November 20, 2012, 06:22:04 AM
How far to ya have to go?

Me, 13 miles.
Title: Re: Drive to work
Post by: sanddunerider on November 20, 2012, 08:05:03 AM
I own my own trucking company and small excavation company........

I have to go about 150 feet..!! ::) ::)
Title: Re: Drive to work
Post by: Gilligan on November 20, 2012, 08:07:17 AM
12 miles mostly through the country -
Title: Re: Drive to work
Post by: Junior on November 20, 2012, 08:36:29 AM
About 30 miles. But most of it is on an interstate highway...actual travel time, depending on traffic, about 35 minutes. Really, not too bad. I just wish the pay was about a third more than it is. :P
Title: Re: Drive to work
Post by: rubedugans on November 20, 2012, 09:12:10 AM
6.2 miles.
Title: Re: Drive to work
Post by: LadyDrifter on November 20, 2012, 02:08:31 PM
6 miles.  Hey sanddunerider...  I don't own it, but I work for a trucking company... well.. brokerage company now.. . been here almost 20 years.
Title: Re: Drive to work
Post by: MissinTheGreenTrams on November 20, 2012, 03:42:49 PM
No commute to work. I work from home. But school on the other hand I drive 20 miles.
Title: Re: Drive to work
Post by: Gilligan on November 20, 2012, 03:44:45 PM
Trams, that counts!
Title: Re: Drive to work
Post by: thelarsonsix on November 20, 2012, 08:26:49 PM
45 miles of two lane road through the northern Ozarks. Would be about 15 if somebody hadn't decided to dam the Osage river around 1930... ;D
Title: Re: Drive to work
Post by: OzarkBred on November 20, 2012, 08:44:21 PM
Fifteen minutes from midtown Memphis to downtown Memphis. Half the route is a lovely 1920s residential boulevard and the other half is a mess, but it's an easy drive.
Title: Re: Drive to work
Post by: KBCraig on November 20, 2012, 09:40:45 PM
6.5 miles

I can walk out my front door fifteen minutes before my shift starts, and be on time.

Now, at my new place in New Hampshire, I'm 33 miles from the job. When I timed it, going slow and taking the slow route, it took 50 minutes. I'll be giving myself an hour at first, adjusting it as I need to for the seasons.
Title: Re: Drive to work
Post by: Ozarks Gal on November 26, 2012, 11:58:10 AM
Blessed that DH and I are both within 2 miles of work from our home. Found our place long before we had our jobs, too. :)
Title: Re: Drive to work
Post by: rubedugans on November 26, 2012, 01:59:42 PM
Mine can be either neighborhoods circa 1990's, and concrete strip malls (the quicker route) or a country road with horses, a church, and an historic Main St. circa 1800's. Several original structures from the late 1800's still exist today and make up a shopping/ small business area, restaurants/ antiques etc. We sit along Boone's Lick Rd. (the road Daniel Boone who lived 13 miles away would take to get his salt from Colombia MO) The area was settled in 1541 as a Spanish territory, and used for everything from trapping lands to a civil war recruitment fort.

I love my drive home (usually I take the quick route in the morning, and the scenic route in the evening), and I love my afternoon runs through this area.
Title: Re: Drive to work
Post by: Gilligan on November 26, 2012, 02:55:15 PM
Same here, Rube, the distance and time are about the same for me either way - I can take the highway and look at corn and bean fields, or I can take the country route and look at horses, farms, and corn and beans.  I prefer the country route.
Title: Re: Drive to work
Post by: biscuitcreek on November 27, 2012, 08:56:29 AM
My drive varies from 11 to 150 miles (depends on where I'm going that day -- I'm a sales rep).
Title: Re: Drive to work
Post by: tiffanylynnt on November 28, 2012, 12:34:23 PM
20 feet, from my bedroom to my living room.
Sometimes 8 miles to the Post Office to ship orders.
Occasionally I go 190 miles... that's when I take my completed work to Branson Mill.
(I crochet for a living.)

http://www.etsy.com/shop/MaudiMae2012  <<< sorry, I had to! :D
Title: Re: Drive to work
Post by: Gilligan on November 28, 2012, 06:37:27 PM
Keep it up, Tiff!  I hope your business is really successful!
Title: Re: Drive to work
Post by: oldsdcer on December 03, 2012, 02:37:30 PM
1.5 mile or 6 minutes. Come Jan. when the new hospital opens, I will have to add 1 mile and 2 stoplights to the trip.
Title: Re: Drive to work
Post by: tiffanylynnt on December 05, 2012, 12:35:58 PM
Quote from: Gilligan on November 28, 2012, 06:37:27 PM
Keep it up, Tiff!  I hope your business is really successful!

Thanks! So far it is doing much better than I had hoped!
Title: Re: Drive to work
Post by: betamike on December 05, 2012, 07:11:29 PM
30 miles from house to "Mouse" each way 
Title: Re: Drive to work
Post by: Swoosh on December 05, 2012, 10:58:06 PM
3 blocks from my school. Usually walk it when the weather is nice