transcontinental travel
Spanning landmass voyages
Transcontinental travel is movement across a continent, typically from one coast or border to the opposite one.
The phrase most often describes crossing North America: transcontinental travel by rail transformed the American West.
It suggests long-distance journeys that span an entire landmass rather than shorter trips within a region.
- airplanePowered flying machine
- red eye flightLate-night air travel
- jet lagPost-flight sleep disruption
- first classHighest quality or rank
- frequent flyerHabitual air traveler
long haul · gate · Eurasia · journey · aviation · Americas · migration · colonization · border · Orient Express · Silk Road · train · bullet trains · road trip · Trans-Siberian Railway · ticket · carbon footprint · Magellan
- traveltrip, trips, journey, journeys, voyage
- Explorationscircumnavigation, oceanic voyages, exploratory missions, Atlantic crossing, Northwest Passage
transcontinental travelneighborhood walk
Amble through nearby streets
around the block · walking distance · errand running · school run · commuting
transcontinental travelstaying put
Remaining in place
immobility · homebound · sedentariness · sedentary lifestyle · rootedness
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