A quick search on the internets tells us that with an average speed of 5Mph, walking for 12 hours a day it takes a little over 2 months to walk from San Diego, Ca to Jacksonville, FL.

I know we can expect some dangers in the FO universe that we wouldnt see in our present day timeline.
Raiders, rad creatures perhaps having to seach for water and other supplies that you might not be able to plan for without serious consideration and a pack brahmin.

But.. In your opinion, how long do you think it would take to walk across the US in the Fallout setting?

I am going to be generous and say a year. If you don't make it in a year youve probably settled in a town, or somewhere underground.
What say you?

Another thing to account for is the shifted geography because of the Great War. Some mountain rages were flattened and others came up. I'm not sure how that would effect the rivers here; in terms of size, placement, and whether some would still exist.

I suppose bridges being out woulc mess some stuff up.

I do wonder how plate tectonics would fare with the pressure from nuykes hittling all over the globe as well.

How long do you think it would take, though?

About a year if your lucky,

Most roads after 200 years have crumbled and if you need to take in with a settlement you might need to stock up on supplies and depending on your money or skill at survival it might take time to restock for the long trip.

2 years if you try slow and safe.

Alot of hazards, dusts storms, mutants, radiation, dangerous settlements, raiders, could postpone you.

Well taking into account collapsed bridges and the dangerous of the wasteland a year seems reasonable.

Two if you are unlucky.

Lets keep in mind that settlers had similar troubles traveling from the east coast to the west coast, before trailways were put in.
They had ronly one trail from missouri to the west and faced mountain lions, wolves, snakes, indians and could do it in well under a year.

Hmm I thought the average walking speed was 3mph.

But, that kinda shows how scale is messed up in Fo3 and NV.

For example, took me 6-8 game hours walking from BoS bunker(dead money one) to Novac. Given I was overloaded, but that cuts what, walking speed in half? In real life that is like 12 miles. I've thought about testing this, mainly because I was interested in how big a game map would have to be to include say Chicago on one side and Ann Arbor on the other, which is about 250 miles.

So, it would take about 4-5 days to walk it.

You would have to take into account the terrain, natural/unnatural hazards, and people. It would take a while as there would have to be many detours. But it could be done.

Also you'd be in desert like conditions all the way pretty much.

Hmm.. Dunno.
Sure, a big chunk would ber desert, because it was desert before the great war.
like, pretty much from Cali toabout half way through Texas or say the Kansas/Missouri border, youre looking at pretty close to desert conditions, unless youre passing the souther rockies, or cossing further north through the Dakotas. Thats the way it was when settlers traveled west. They cut across the north and down to Cali to avoid some of the desert and still made it from STL to cali in about 6 months.


We know that since CL has picked up so many tribes along its path that there are places we can trade through some of that.
We know the courrier has been as far as the continental divide, which I usually place around the arizona NM border.

More than just stating that a person cal walk it. It means that there may be knowedge of the paths to take.
Unless we head further north to the great lakes area, its really between the missisippi and the east coast that we dont know about for sure.
But that is only about a 5th to a quarter of the journey, where i would argue there would be the best chanses for agriculture and fresh water from spreings and aquifers..

Continetal Divide?
You mean the Divide?

The Divide is in between Shady Sands and New Vegas.

I've never heard of any mention of the Continental Divide.

My sitake, I had assumed that it was a shortened version of the contenental divide,

No, sorry.

It's in a fictional city called Hopeville in southern California.

It wouldn't have made much sense if the NCR had made a city some around eastern Arizona and western NM into a town would it?

But I understand your confusion.

s/b mistake*


Stranger things have happened.
We had a DLC were the BOS was in pittsburgh.

I reckon the point is still the same though.
A large chunk of what we woould traditionally consider the US desert region has at least some signs of settlement.

But they were there because they went to check on the MWBoS then go to D.C., so Pittsburgh isn't too far off.

It is still a fantastical distance, from where they started is all I am trying to say.
I already admittied it was a mistake

From how I read it, it seemed that you were trying to say that their presence in Pittsburgh was a stranger thing than NCR making a city in Arizona.

It isnt as if, people have thought it was far fetched for the BOS to be on the east coast, becasuse it is a fantastical distance from where htey started.

I guess we can keep going in cirlces around a mistaken name, and why it didnt occour to me that the NCR wasnt that far east, if youd like. but Ive already admitted it was a mistake, so, i am not sure what the point would be,.

I'm not saying anything about the NCR, I thought your statement about Pittsburgh was a completely subject.