Comment Re:No end-user would do this fiscally (Score 1) 226
To drive those 8000 miles the apportioned cost would be $4,000. You can get 10 round-trip tickets London-NY off-season and 5 on-season for that.
If you want to see London, then buy a plane ticket. If you want to see Canada, Alaska, Russia, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, Lithuania, Ukraine, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Austria, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, France, Spain, Portugal, and the UK, then there would be another alternative. You could drive all over mainland Asia, the Middle East, and Africa as well. You could get in your car and hit the Great Wall and the pyramids before heading to South Africa, then head back up and take a ferry across to Spain and continue through Europe. I'm talking multi-month or multi-year RV trips to actually see most of the world, starting at your house. If you really want to make it an adventure then start in Panama and head north. You could start in South America and take the Pan-American highway north, but you'll find some trouble going from Columbia to Panama in the form of 60 miles of rain forest without a road. The connection between Alaska and Russia would allow you to drive across 4 continents without a ferry, 5 if they put a road through the Darien Gap.