My job/working hours don’t allow me to bowl at the “local” center anymore, and I ended up finding a league at a center 75 miles away that bowls at a time that I can bowl, so I drive 75 miles, one way, and 75 miles home every week to bowl.

 I used to bowl much closer, but they are a small, “rural” place, and don’t offer leagues at times I’m off work. I work Sunday thru Thursday, from 10:00p.m. to 7:00a.m.

 I drive 150 miles a week, 32 weeks a year, to bowl one league.


 How about you guys?

According to google maps it's 1.9 miles.  However, there are at least 10 traffic lights on my route and I hit red on just about every single one...

44 miles round trip on Mondays and 14 miles round trip on Thursdays.

One of the advantages of living in Metro Detroit is that there are plenty of bowling centers and leagues. None are very far away. I bowl 3 nights a week and my farthest drive is 4 miles each way right now.

Also, tournaments and sweepers? They are very easy to find here on most any night or weekend thanks to Brian Regan.

1.5 miles, love it! 

It's an old house with bad, old wood lanes, machines from the 80's, but I'm just happy that it's still open and I have a few leagues that I can still join when I retire in a few years (if the center is still around in a few years).  The owners want to renovate but the lease is short, 5 years leases, and they don't want to invest thousands and thousands of dollars just to lose the lease.  Hopefully the greedy property management will allow them a long term lease so they can upgrade.

5 miles now, but in the mid 70"s it was 145 miles round trip from work in Campti, LA to Bossier City, LA back to Natchitoches, LA where I lived.  I made the trip once a week and bowled in the early and late leagues for about 3 years before a new center was built in Natchitoches.  --  JohnP

And I thought 22 miles/ 30 Minutes was bad .... Well I guess we all love our "sport"

Quote from: JohnP on February 07, 2018, 12:58:43 PM

5 miles now, but in the mid 70"s it was 145 miles round trip from work in Campti, LA to Bossier City, LA back to Natchitoches, LA where I lived.  I made the trip once a week and bowled in the early and late leagues for about 3 years before a new center was built in Natchitoches.  --  JohnP

 Yea, that’s a pretty good drive. Back when I was still delivering groceries, Monday was my Louisiana day. Coming from east Texas on I-20, I went through Shreveport and Bossier City to get to my first delivery in Doyline. Then went to Hall Summit, Campti, and then to Natchitoches. Did the Wardworth grocery and the French Market there before going on to Winfield, Ruston, and spent the night in West Monroe.

Wow never spent much time in east Texas/Louisana but sounds almost as BFE as west Texas which sadly have had to drive through too many times.  Hell or High Water is a documentary.  Still both have their advantages I suppose.  Cost of living, lots of parking, no road rage, etc.