What is the maximum distance that you are willing to drive to get to a better club, without springing for hotel RON? For me, 2-2.5 hrs 1 way drive max when home, probably 1 hr. when on business trip. Bang for $ and/or significant mileage gain must be present.
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How many miles to get more mileage?
Jan 17, 2006, 5:51 PM
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A big part of the appeal to me of a 2-4 hour trip is that it's completely irrational.
My guess from the context of the sentence would be that RON = "remaining over night."
What does RON abbreviate?
Perhaps the site owner can add that to the Glossary here.
OK, it looks like 1-2 hrs is "norm" here. This equates to 2-4 hr round trip driving time. Rationally, club experience would have to be worth 2-4 hrs take home pay (either in less expensive LDs for same mileage, or "perceived" greater value of more distant SC experience. For "average" wage earner, we're talking probably $30-$60 for trip to be worthwhile. For someone like chitown, such time expenditure runs well into 3 figures. But, can SC experience be truly quantified in rational terms?
On a purely practical basis, cheaper dances shouldn't warrant driving more than an extra hour or so round trip, depending on how you value your time. However, the implusive, anything-is-possible feeling when dances are $10 and not $25 the whole experience more than the cost difference can account for.
Erm...meant to write "changes the whole experience".
I will drive 3 hours to favorite club, although it's not strictly for the mileage. Mileage does tend to be high at that club, but I can get as much closer. It's more for the relaxed, laid back atmosphere (and the cheap dances).
However, rarely do I make the trip there and back in one day, although I have done so. I almost always arrive late, stay til closing, and come back the next morning.
I always go at least an hour away, sometime almost 2. There aren't any clubs closer than that and I probably would't go to them if there were.
My favorite club is only 10 minutes away but is rather low mileage. When I get the urge for high mileage, I've got at least 8 clubs within a half hours drive. I've made the 2 hour drive to San Diego a couple of times but it's mostly for the variety since the mileage is much lower than L.A. standards.
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Although my local club has great mileage, I've driven about 1.5 - 2 hours away. More so out of curiousity about the reputation the club had than anything else. The reputation was well deserved.
My favorite club is an hour or so away, but since I gotta have variety, at least once in a while, I'll go up to 4. But I can't say I get more mileage, just more mileage from girls I don't always see.
Without springing for a hotel? Maybe an hour tops.
I don't know. I've never traveled locally for higher mileage. Hopefully I'll let all y'all know later this year.
A club that has most everything I need is one hour away, but I occasionally drive as far as four hours just for variety, not necessarily better mileage.
After I discovered TUSCL 7 or 8 years ago, I did a four day ultra road trip to SF, Tijuana, Houston and Tampa. These days I drive 4 hours to ESL a couple of times a year. I enjoy my local club more than in the past, and at the present time, the mileage is the best it has ever been. Kinda' like the places I visited back then - except for Tijuana of course.