>>>>I think Americans routinely drive greater distances than us. I had a friend who thought it was no big deal to drive 600 miles at the weekend to go skiing.
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>>>Jeez that's like from Land's End to John O'Groats!
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>>>The canucks are the same. When I first went to see my cousin in Ontario they thought nowt of driving 2 hours from the farm to pick me up, then another 2 hours back to the farm. Her husband, a farmer, was also a teacher once. He used to get up mornings, feed the stock, then drive 2 hours to the school. Afternoons was the revere. Now they had friends in the town where the school was. It was nowt to drive 2 hours for a night out at a restaurant with them!
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>>A friend of mine lives in a small town east of Toronto (in Prince Edward County - not to be confused with Prince Edward Island),
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>I kind of figured that, esp. since I did a 3 day drive to PEI from Ontario 7 years ago :-)
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>>and works about 10 minutes from my house. She drives in (about 2.5 hrs) Monday morning, stays at my place during the week, and drives home Thursday or Friday afternoon.
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>"She", eh? nudge-nudge, wink-wink, say no mooo-ah!

No, no really!

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>>It depends on whether she's working Friday (she gets 3 out of 4 Fridays off). She used to drive in Monday morning, drive home Wednesday evening and drive back in Thursday morning, but since the advent of better work scheduling and her now getting three Fridays off, she stopped going home Wednesdays.
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