[DF] 40 Days Travel Time?

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by Ransom

Agreed, but if you manage to sustain 20 miles a day you'll never go 40 days between resupply opportunities even on the Oregon Trail in 1842.

Close though. It's about 700 miles from Independence MO to Laramie WY (Fort Laramie in 1842), which was the first significant stopover on the Oregon Trail at the time. There's not much in Nebraska for another decade.

But 40 days isn't a bad estimate for the time to get from one country to another in the days before mechanization. Rome to Paris is about 40 days, Marseilles to Cologne is a little shorter thanks to the rivers, even London to Edinburgh is a 3 week trip.