TheMajinVegeta
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Jun 20, 2020 5:20 AM
TheMajinVegeta
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Yojoo
*Snowpiercer intensifies*
SomethingAmis
I got from Calais to the asian side of Istambul on train+foot. Came back and used a ferry between Patras and Brindisi but otherwise train.
Ardback
But is guaranteed that you can get food during all the trip ?
Playster845
I did not know that. That's very cool
Telruin
Norway and North Korea is connected by only one country.
Zixtank
Neither of those between stops sound good at the moment... Except Mongolia. Always wanted to go.
ErniesWidow
I want to live in a Yurt/Ger, but in the US.
MrTomRobs
It'll still be cheaper than getting between Manchester and Birmingham in the UK...
GroovyCrowley
I would love to do that.
Rustybuckets02
10 points on ticket to ride
DWGifWrecker
I wanna do that
Taltaron
Glad I live in a country where you get enough vacation to have time to do stuff like this, not that I use it like that, but still.
mattrixk
I just watched Train to Busan. Count me the fuck out.
friendsofsandwiches
This sounds like a Rick Steves series.
lepidoptera
The 136 hour bit from Russia to China would be a bit of a drag
idontcareifthesundontshine
Has anyone seen Lion?
prinnnneh
Cross to Indonesia by ferry and you can continue over land to Bali. Sadly, that's where it ends
Turbolibros
friendsofsandwiches
jesus christ, is this real or CGI? it LOOKS real? but it also looks CGI.
sonomarco
Presumably Sauce would show the route?
TheMajinVegeta
https://www.tripzilla.com/portugal-to-vietnam-by-train-easy-guide/110412
PhailRaptor
If Russia and the USA could coordinate to build/dig the tunnel across the Bering Strait, you could travel from Cape Horn to Cape Town
mormacil
Don't give Ewan McGregor any new ideas
PicassoCT
Wasnt he getting caught smoking grounded highs? After making that campaign against deathsticks?
HenryLongfellowIII
There's not even a road across the Darién Gap, let alone train tracks.
odamanda
The Darien Gap would be a ridiculously easy and unexpensive issue to solve compared to building a fucking tunnel below the Bering Strait.
HenryLongfellowIII
Not to mention there isn't a hell of a lot on the Russian side to connect to. 3,200km (2000 miles) to the nearest rail.
PhailRaptor
Somebody should really tell the Science Channel, because they clearly have no idea. As I did not.
HenryLongfellowIII
Seems like such an obvious thing to do, like the BRI in Asia, freight trains running to and from markets of hundreds of millions of people.
Turbolibros
cousteau
Multi-track drifting!
DemonDuJour
I thought going across Australia was the longest train ride. Maybe it only feels like it takes forever?
DildoRodeo
Not even close
StickeryKnickery
Especially through the desert! Pretty cool though. Wish I could go back and do it again.
anchorshark
Longest single train ride. Portugal to Vietnam you need to change trains several times.
BigFatBobbie
Maybe the flat Earth map is accurate. Australia is the biggest!
Whatdoyousaytoanicecupoftea
Given the the average age of people who do the trans Pacific is 78, yes
ImSupposedToBeWorkingRightNow
Yes, but how old were they when they departed
Zeefox
Nope. Not even close. The Trans-Siberian from Vladivostok to Moscow is nearly twice as long and never leaves Russia.
SephirothVII
Meh, my Dad walked that distance to School!
sokolov
DALLASLAVOWNER
maybe that's why he keeps muttering about jumper cables
beast8888
Barefooted while carrying his little sister
jeffleggett
Uphill all the way no doubt
ohscrewit
In the snow too!
cousteau
And uphill! Both ways!
BustyAsianBeauty
Barefoot!
nashbem
Cool can I have the vacation time off too :,(
HenryLongfellowIII
Sure, but there might be someone else sitting at your desk when you get back, and without pay of course.
VinniVanGogh
Said the USA citizen/ corporation.
bubbasparxx
And the travel money??
CatatonicCowMoo
9 years in, my fiance gets 3 weeks and one option week in the US! And that seems awesome to us lol
Megapyton66
Don’t everyone get 5 weeks paid vacation a year as we do in Sweden?
FishyMcFishles
I get two weeks lol but its accumulating. I dont get it all at once. I'm in the us.
MateriaGirl1
I have 6 weeks paid vacation. Greetings from Germany
TurdBurglar3000
I get six weeks a year. Greetings from Germany.
chrisjfinlay
Full time employees in the UK get 25 days (which is 5 weeks now that I think about it), most places also add an extra day after a year of...
chrisjfinlay
...service, up to a certain amount.
QuamvisSintSubAqua
No. You get 6 weeks in Austria if you have worked more than 25 years at the same company.
Megapyton66
Oh forgot, I get 6 weeks as well because I’m 40 +
QuamvisSintSubAqua
Det är jätte bra!
EmoBacon
is it a singular train ride or do you have to do change overs
imnotrealkyok
Yeah, so more of a trip by train rather than a long train ride. Fake news!
TuckerTheGuy
Not worth it. Better to fly.
WCHandy
Thank you Caleb
erroniousmaximus
Living fast vs. living to live.
GreenBeanCasserole
You have to change between Spain and France. From Paris to St . Petersburg, from there to Shanghai, no idea after..
DoNotGiveAFuck
A change of wheel base at Mongolia to China so off the train then back on the same one after the change is over
erroniousmaximus
Given that there is no single train that’ll run that gambit there will likely be many changeovers. But it would still be fun
justnotthatinteresting
And be potentially kidnapped for the organ trade on at least 3 occasions
sr22e
RestlessVagabond
Its a two week train ride. Might as well spend part of it hiding from organ thieves to pass the time.
mormacil
Yeah but what about the risks outside of Russia?
longleggedbeastie
Organ trade? Ever heard of hungry Russians that just eat you not even bothering to sell off your organs?
pipatron
Was just about to post something like this. You're going to travel through some really rough spots here.
expectingthespanishinquisition
You're not crossing the US, so you should be fine.
EmberFiretail
Because the US had a huge human organ theft problem...oh wait that's china.
PicassoCT
You got to have guts to see that through.-.
NgeruiscatinMaori
Mmm tell me more. Will there be stainless steel and ice?
svennisiggi
Bit of steel and thrown into a ditch, wont that be nice?
sr22e
*schweiss*
svennisiggi
So lets go and roll the dice!
PluckedDuck
I've always wanted to make it longer.
TeamToasterNeverForget
its easy.. build the Behring strait bridge.. then you could go from Cape Town to Pontarenas via Porto by car..
LurkerOfDarkness
Darien gap...
FundamentallyFlawed
Gotta get your self to Beetown my friend.
cmonyoulardass
Nice
EnjoyerAlias
Length of a train doesn’t really matter. Its more about the girth but then you have tunneling issues
W4RG4ZM
No no, it's length by girth divided by stamina.
McPuffinStuff
EatYourSoylentGreenAndShutUp
FudgeThis
Thicker too
desolatorx
More this tbh, it's more about the girth than the length.
WarBearGrrrrrrr
That’s what she said & now I stand proud at 2
Lurker4815162342
Inches?
Lurker4815162342
.. below knee level..?
BigFatBobbie
Mine is two inches... from the ground!
BigFatBobbie
*cough* laying face down on my belly. ?
RafaelHugNKiss
Check your emails.
meowkie
Spam folder
Redisia
uponstrangeshores
I snorted.
Emulen
If you can snort it, it might need to be wider to
speakertoidiot
That would be 2 weeks of continuous travel with no stops or breaks. Ever.
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Ardback
the train stops.
Bassemuss
But honestly more loke 50 days
Malsbury
My 1st thought too. That journey is way over 300 hours.
yourlocaleconomicsnerd
So it is!
bonnyparker
Nice
Tubularballs
Yep. I’ve done the China-Mongolia-Russia bit. 5 days on the train, sleeping car, plus whatever stops you want (we took a month or so).
Chirikain
if you get off on one station how long till next train comes to continue?
Tubularballs
They’re fairly regular. We planned the whole thing in advance with overnight or multi-day stays and the train always showed.
81misfit
When I was in mongolia, someone took the train home to Bournemouth. Took 11 days.
melmboundanddown
You would of thought they would of taken the opportunity to escape Bournemouth
dasklaus
Well there's no single train that does the full route, you have to change trains a bunch. And all trains stop in semi-regular intervals.
Rin007
Do you not think you have to swap trains like a gazillion times and wait for trains, just that would at least double time taken
ThatRaccoonGuy
So if you actually make time to stop and enjoy things that's like a few months. I wish I had that kind of money to just not work for 4 month
mordondro
4 months is actually pretty short bc of all the amazing places to visit. Count more like a 6-8
ienjoythings
What
thylm
That. "Stop being poor". It's not a difficult concept to grasp, is it?
ienjoythings
Just wanted to make a pun with my username but clearly you guys sucks balls
sr22e
covid made traveling dirt cheap...no job to deny vacation...riots burned down everything else, so yeah...most folks could get away with it
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sr22e
no idea. It would be reasonable if they were, but i doubt folks in other countries listen to their governments any more than over here?
MarriNikari
I've made it work with remote contract work, which might be easier to find nowadays given givens
speakertoidiot
You won’t have useful network access most of the time though on that trip.
MarriNikari
Oh yeah valid, I did not do that exact trip. But for general travel shenanigans :)
xaldem
Why not work on the train.
Seigeengine
A Canadian/Russian couple spent ~$10k traveling the world for 30 months. Don't rule out travel.
Frapporino
Back in the day they could do this. They'd even be taken in as guests along the way and given food. We need the good 'ol days
Frapporino
No trains tho.. just feet or horseborse
Devestator8888
How much is the horseborse method
Frapporino
Three fiddy
hadtochangemyusernamecauseIgotdivorced
Paris Hilton said to stop being poor. Have you tried that out?
Djenitalia
If your homeless....just buy a house
Gargwill
I mean just have more money or get richer parents it's not hard.
ThisGuyHere
Truly, one of the greatest philosophers of our time.
chrisjfinlay
If you're referring to that photo of her with the tshirt that says that, you know it's a (pretty bad) photoshop, right?
iputnutinnutella
Yea it was. I think the original said Stop Being Desperate or something.
hadtochangemyusernamecauseIgotdivorced
Oh really? Had no idea, I always assumed she was just that much of a bitch.
HenryLongfellowIII
Lots of people of modest means do it. In fact this is a good time, because the next year or so is going to be a shit show.
MentalShibari
A train will be a nice place to watch when the (insert anything here, and it is now feasible) happen.
magicgirl
Have you seen Snowpiecer?
MentalShibari
Yes. No thanks on the food. I'm all set :p exactly though :)
mordondro
Actually gonna take longer bc of train schedules. I did half of it in 2 months
theyar
Right. I'm guessing there isn't a single car or even continuous track here. You're at least changing at stations many times.
mordondro
Absolutely. Only in Russia you have a continuous 7 day train but also boredom bc landscape is not changing in 10000km...
TurangaLeelaIsMyMom
That sounds like it would be a fun honeymoon, if you could get off work for like a month. Ride half of it for honeymoon. Other half for (1/)
TurangaLeelaIsMyMom
Your 10 year. On 20th, ride 1st 1/2 again. Continue alternating. Finally, when you’re retired, and soon will be too old for such trips, (2/
TurangaLeelaIsMyMom
Ride the entire trip together. Stop at all of your fave places, plus all the places you always wished you could stop when younger (3/3)
gemmastylist
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jinbee
Story/photo time?
guamarama
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reiseiji
You'll have to wait two more months. Like he said he's only halfway there.
mordondro
Haha, maybe sometime when i grab my old hard disk
AnonBaron
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qqafjbgjbbvzj
How? It takes 3 days to do Portugal Moscow by train, and the transsiberien to Beijing take 7 days.... The connections are quick fast!
mordondro
You could possibly time all of it so right but almost impossible that it all connects and it's not one train, one ticket, etc
mordondro
On top try to book a ticket in advance in Russia or Mongolia (if you pass there) or China via internet without getting ripped off
mordondro
If its even possible. We bought our train tickets on Russian without speaking Russian, a nightmare, same in China etc. Und