A man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and a ship

Re:A man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and... by arethuza on Monday May 04, 2020 @03:53AM (#23065532)

"an hour or two from anywhere else"

A few moments with Google maps and I found two places in Scotland that are ~23 hours apart by car. :-) And Scotland is only a small part of the UK.

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Re:A man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and... by Symbiote on Monday May 04, 2020 @04:31AM (#23065731)

Is there anywhere in Scotland more than two hours from any town? Only on some islands, I think (Unst is 2½ hours from Lerwick.)

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Re:A man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and... by arethuza on Monday May 04, 2020 @05:09AM (#23065908)

I don't think so - at least if you exclude islands and villages on the mainland not connected to the rest of the road network (Inverie being the only one I'm aware of).

I was contemplating a post-lockdown trip to Shetland and was looking at the ferry times to Papa Stour which made me think of this!

NB 14.5 hours to get to Lerwick from where I live in Scotland and a couple of hours to get from Lerwick to Papa Stour.

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Re:A man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and... by arethuza on Monday May 04, 2020 @11:09AM (#23068950)

If you allow private roads - then I think Fealar Lodge is about 2 hours from Pitlochry.

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