Tieki - there’s so much awesomeness out West, and it’s so big, that you can take it all in going 75 mph.

75 mph * 6 hours = 450 miles. Going 55 mph = about 8.5 hours. Yuck. You would just never get anywhere.

For me, law school to home was 10 hours if I slightly ignored the speed limit (did about 70 the whole way). I once did it in nine, and I was flying (made the first 260 miles in just over three hours). 55 mph - no freakin way. It would go from a 10 hour drive to a 12 or 13 hour drive.

It does seem a bit backwards in some ways… driving 55 out east is torture because there’s nothing to look at and everybody’s mean… but maybe people should drive a little slower out west to take in the pure awesomeness.

That said, what is now a 6 hour drive from my house to Denver going about 75-80 on average would be insanely long at 55 mph. I don’t do math, but I’m pretty sure that would up the trip by an hour or two.

110 mph across Wyoming in the dead of winter on a weekday is the only way

Here’s to “reasonable and prudent”!

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