How do you measure travel distance, time or miles?

[SlitherinSisters]

Just for fun, how do you measure travel distance, by time or miles? I have been made fun of for this many times and I read a thing about Iowa the other day and two things just about killed me...

You know you are from Iowa if you measure distance in time rather than miles.

and

You know you are from Iowa if your high school had a "drive your tractor to school" day.

Uh...yes I measure distance in time, and yes I have participated in drive your tractor to school day, my brother drove us so that makes it ok right?

[Xotik]

Sooo. I accidentally hit Time - when I actually meant "Other"

Really. I give people landmarks. or "I'm the third traffic light down the last street"

[zeion97]

We have a drive your tractor to school day where i live..

And it just depends! some times by miles, some times by time, usually longer trips get hours while shorter gets miles.

[Kenj620]

I think most people use travel time as a measure of distance, if someone asks me how far away I live and I say the miles it means nothing to most people I know lol.

[RobNJ]

I'd agree, I think distance by time is very common where ever you are....

Now, "drive your tractor to school day" on the other hand, is something I've never witnessed nor heard of.

[speedfreak]

Im from Iowa and I actually think the opposite. Here where you have mostly open land you can usually average close to 60 mph so I find people usually say "miles". But at 60 mph 1 mile= 1 minute. In the bigger cities it seems to me that people usually use time since 1 mile could take you 20 minutes or more depending on time of day and what streets you are on.

[olstyn]

I grew up in a farm community just across the border from Iowa (in MN), and we certainly never had a "drive your tractor to school day." As far as the time/distance thing goes, I voted miles/km, but I think there should be another choice simply labeled "yes." I tend to do both; it's 11 miles to work; usually about 15 minutes to get there, etc.

[The Serpent Merchant]

I go by miles... But then again I'm an engineer so I know I don't represent the majority on this one.

There wasn't a drive your tractor to school day at my high school, but living in coastal Florida nobody has one anyway.

[speedfreak]

And I never drove the tractor to school, but atv, dirtbike, snowmobile, yes.

[Don]

Miles and time. They go together.