The Longest Road-Trip You've Ever Made

[Intelsucks]

Back in '92 or '93 I drove from South Bend, Indiana to Austin, Texas (~22 hours) in one stretch. It was one of the dumbest things I've ever done in my entire life. I was totally falling asleep at the wheel just South of Dallas/Ft. Worth and I finally ended up stopping for some coffee and a breather less than 20 miles from home!

[DS1]

1. Sarasota FL, to just east of Boston MA

Gawd what a miserable shithole that place is, and it's too hot

[HEyHEY]

2. Vancouver BC to Tiajuana Mexico

Hell of a drive. Have done it three times.

[asthmaticeog]

3. Cleveland to San Francisco

in the summer of '91. FUN! Took the northern route so I could go through the Badlands (and visit Wall Drug, of course) and the Rockies. That's doin' America right!

[Democrats unite]

4. Fort Myers, FL. to San Francisco CA.

It was great! Can't wait to do it again. Talk about seeing America!

[camero]

5. Longest drive?

I used to be a trucker...lol. Miami to Vancouver BC and back. Took me 9 days countng my wait for a return load.

[ConcernedCanuk]

6. 2 long trips

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one from Daytona Beach Fla. to Toronto Canada - 27 hours non-stop,
well, except for a "search" at the border coming home, about a 2 hour "unscheduled" stop. (1700 cliks)

and the other,

a three-day wandering drive from San Diego Ca. to North Bay, Ontario Canada. (approx 3300 cliks)

alas, no such trips planned in the future due to the USA's Homeland Insecurity program . . .

(sigh)

[unblock]

7. austin, tx to secaucus, nj

i've done quite a few austin trips to/from various northeast/midwest places.

but i'm not moran, i stop every couple of hours or so for fuel, a break, sodas, muchies, maybe even a 15 minute catnap.

first time i did it i thought it would be "cool" to push myself and see how tired i could get and still drive. didn't take me long to realize how idiotic that was. yes, i can drive well when i'm very tired. but why, when a brief break feels good and makes the next several hours so much better?

[9215]

8. Anchorage to Seattle

Left on a Wednesday morning in Novemember and arrived on a Saturday afternoon. About 2600 miles. It was 30 below zero in Whitehorse, Yukon. I took a shortcut over a 450 mile gravel road.

Great way to wake up was to jog in that kind of weather.

[Bertha Venation]

9. Huntington Beach, CA, to Burke, VA

September, 2000

ten days

2,600 miles, daytime-only driving

two cats in the backseat of a Toyota Tercel

six overnight stops (Flagstaff, AZ; Holbrook, AZ; Tucumcari, NM; Oklahoma City, OK; West Memphis, AR; Clinton, TN)

four motels, one friend's house (OK) and the in-laws' house (TN)

innumerable little sightseeing stops and three big ones:
* The Grand Canyon
* The Painted Desert & The Petrified Forest
* The Oklahoma City National Memorial

one pull-over, by an OK state trooper named Carter who told me I was "makin' 83 mall an air," and let me go without a ticket

We had the time of our life. Can't wait 'til we can do it again (next time in an RV).

[Lostmessage]

10. NY to Alberta & Edmonton Canada

It was the dead of winter and we had a blizzard that year.

I must say that it was one of the stupidest things that I have ever done in my life.

[Cuban_Liberal]

11. Indianapolis to Brownsville, TX.

Got a wild hair one Friday and went to see my abuela, as a surpise. She was. ;)

[Parrcrow]

12. Ottawa, ON to Tulsa, OK

Got hassled at the border and worried about dodging bullets around Columbus. Stayed overnight in Indianapolis (home of Kurt Vonnegut and the worst pizza in the whole wide world).

[jpak]

13. Pensacola FL to St. John's Newfoundland

and back 2 years later.

[ConcernedCanuk]

16. By ROAD ??

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musta been one of them Cuban Conversion Kits !! :bounce:

:toast:

[jpak]

21. Yup - alotta "wet wheelin'" east of Sydney NS...

:)

[TrogL]

14. Edmonton to Vancouver in one day

by way of Jasper. 16 hour drive. I was planning on stopping overnight somewhere in western BC but got so pissed off by the incomprehensible road system I just drove on through.

[TrogL]

15. Toronto to Dreadful Valley, Alberta

Four days if I remember correctly

[soleft]

17. NY - Wisconsin - stopped overnight in Cleveland

2 Drivers

[izzie]

18. Coast of NH to Anchorage Alaska. Boat trip in Middle

Funny

[Redneck Socialist]

19. I've driven coast to coast a couple of times.

The longest legs were Portsmouth, NH to Chicago in 20 hours non stop (shared driving) and I once drove from Seatle to Chicago in 36 hours by myself with lots and lots of coffee. Pretty stupid I know, but as with many stupid things in my life a woman was involved.

[arwalden]

20. Seattle To Los Angeles... or... Va Beach to Key West

I'll have to plot it out on Streets&Trips to see which is longer.

-- Allen

[gator_in_Ontario]

22. Ft. Pierce Florida to Kingston Ontario n/t

[Robb]

23. Seattle to Bangor to Key West to San Diego to Seattle

...with my insane family. Don't ask me anything. :)

[Nite Owl]

24. Two round trips

Long Island to Anchorage. Alcan highway both times. On one of the return trips we drove from Manitoba (sp?) to LI straight. 26 hrs. Only for the young! This was back in the 70's.

[NNadir]

36. LI, NY to LA to SF to LI, NY, (two weeks), round trip

Did that on a lark with a couple of friends.

I've driven NY to California and California to NY seven or eight times. My wife and I drove from San Diego to New Jersey via Montana, the UP of Michigan and Canada.

My longest continuous non-stop solo trip is from Southern Utah to LI, NY when I was in my early twenties. It was part of a LA to NY trek. I was near hallucinatory when I hit the George Washington Bridge. It was crazy, but I was under a lot of pressure. My mother was dying.

[greendog]

25. 50, 000 miles......six months

Started in Indianapolis...drove to New Mexico and spent six months zig-zaging northward to Alaska...lived out of the back of my little pick up truck. Incredible trip.

[Bat Boy]

26. Route 66, from start to finish..

...then up the Pacific Coast Highway to San Francisco and back to Chicago.

Susang and I have a mad love for three week vacations and extended road trips. Our honeymoon took us from Detroit to Key West, up to Maine, through Canada back to Detroit and on to Chicago.

We're about due for another one I think...

[bubblesby2002]

27. Vancouver BC to Hamilton, Ontario in three days

My Dad's hometown. We'd pile into the car and leave Vancouver at 5:00 am and be in Calgary before dark. Two days later we'd be in Hamilton. Dad did all the driving; we would stop for meals and the occasional pee break, the odd Mystery Spot and to get out picture taken at the big nicol in Sudbury or the Paul Bunyon & Babe the blue ox statue, I think in Minnesota. Those trips were so much fun.

[Tripper11]

28. Vancouver BC to San Fransico CA to Boulder CO and back to

Vancouver.

I wasn't planning on the Boulder part. I had hooked up with a friend who was a roadie for ekoostic hookah. Checked out their show at the Great American Music Hall. Had a good time and all.

I was planning on heading back up the Oregon coast camping and mountain biking but got talked into heading east to Boulder.

On my way home, ran out of money and gas in Ogden Utah....got some last minute cash from my boss and made it back to Vancouver.

All this in about 7 days. No hotels, just my '82 VW Scirocoo back seat and a blanket. Great run!

[Awsi Dooger]

29. Miami to Prince Rupert, then throughout Alaska

At Prince Rupert I boarded a cruise ship to tour the inland waterways of Alaska -- Ketchikan, Sitka and Juneau before departing at Skagway. Then a couple of months in amazing Alaska, before departing via the rugged Yukon Territories.

I really don't understand what's keeping me from doing that again.

In college I would masochistically make the Miami to Los Angeles route in 3 days, either way. Felt like I was the world's foremost authority on I-10 and those west Texas tumbleweeds.

[Bundbuster]

30. Non-stop? Boston to Denver - 35 hours, 2100 miles

1972, 2 of us driving, stopped only for gas. I couldn't sleep in the car, so about 30 miles outside Denver with eyes closing and double vision I pulled off on the freeway shoulder and crashed on the grass. 18-wheelers couldn't wake me up for 6 hours.

[Seldona]

31. Either Eau Claire Wisconsin

to Daytona Beach Florida, or Eau Clair Wisconsin to Denver Colorado, not sure which is farthest.

Probably Florida.

Oh, and both times drove straight through by myself.

Caffeine and ephedrine. :crazy:

[DarkSim]

32. St. Petersburg, Russia to Beijing China.

I was sitting in my car the whole trip on the train. So i guess it counts. :D

[Burma Jones]

33. Went from Minneapolis to DC non stop, alone, about 20 hours

another trip: Went from DC to Quebec City to Houston, then San Diego, Seattle and then back to DC with a girlfriend - that was a three week trip.

[RebelOne]

34. From Miami, Fla. to Los Angeles, Cal.

[Bertha Venation]

35. have thoroughly enjoyed reading this thread

It makes me itchy to get back out there again, with the road rushin' under my wheels.

[ronnykmarshall]

37. SF to Chicago

Road trip from hell.

[jmowreader]

38. Boston, MA, to St. Maries, ID

3100 miles in three and a half days.

I was going to say Fort Campbell, KY, to Idaho but that's actually shorter. It doesn't seem like it should be, but it is.

I hate Chicago toll booths!

[CO Liberal]

39. Round Trip - Lake Hiawatha, NJ to Jerome, AZ

Christmastime, 1993. Four days out, six days back - an icestorm on the East Coast forced us to reroute out return trip via I-20 across LA, MA, AL, and GA - as opposed to our outbound trip via I-40 through the mountains of Tennessee.

[populistmom]

40. Connecticut to Nebraska

A few times. I even did it once with the kiddos- never, ever again. :crazy:

[AlFrankenFan]

41. Fairfax, VA to Golden, CO

We were moving back in 1996, went through a lot of states, had some fun, but overall it was boring and I wish we'd taken a plane instead :P

[Red State Rebel]

42. 4,500 miles in 3 Weeks...go Cavaliers!

I volunteer for the Cavaliers Drum & Bugle Corps as a seamstress. My first summer with them I travelled from Chicago area, north to Wisconsin, Michigan, east to Ohio, south to Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, I rejoined them in Alton, IL and went to Enid OK, Tulsa, south to Ft. Worth, Houston, San Antonio, back north Tulsa and back through Missouri to Illinois.

We move to a different city almost every single night, sleeping on the bus or the floor of a local high school. After performing it's back on the bus and off we go. There are 5 buses of 135 performing members (all male - ages 16-22), staff and volunteers. There are also 2 semi's - one carrying equipment and the other is a cook truck where all the meals are prepared for the entire group.

You haven't travelled until you have travelled Drum Corp style.
www.cavaliers.org