the longest drive you have ever taken
toronto to fort lauderdale - 1400 miles
toronto to hailfax - 1100 miles
Denham Springs LA to Park City Utah.
Only stops were for fuel, rest room and food.
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In terms of long and being pissed at myself 9 hours in a day from Yonkers, New York to the middle of rural Maine...we left late on a Saturday noon
and arrived in the unlit pine woods in the dark...We barely found the cabin!
Height of summer vacation time, we should have known better but we were 28 and very stupid, the traffic totally kicked our ass!!
NYC to California for a few weeks.... Drove down to Texas, going to El Paso, then to Austin for the 4th of July, and back to El Paso before a sojourn to Albuquerque for a Steely Dan concert (that was fucking awesome!) and back to El Paso to meet up with some British friends, to Austin again (it's one of my favorite cities in the US), then to Louisiana to visit a friend... Drove to Memphis, stayed for a few days, even ran into a girl I met at the hostel in Austin... Drove to Nashville for some planned jam sessions and then to Chicago to pick up a friend I met overseas when she was in the area, and back to where I lived.... We spent the next week talking, reading, smoking, drinking, but VERY LITTLE driving.
Thousands of miles in about 6 weeks
you needed a rest after all that travel.
shareYes, very much so... I remember being invited to a party, and I wanted my friend to see how we partied, as a cultural experience, but I left it up to him. It was a 45-minute drive each way, which isn't too bad, but it was the day after getting back, we just kept it very low-key... Had a great time. If you have the right friends, it doesn't matter where you're at.. Great conversation is great conversation. I remember she tried to read this really long Churchill biography, and when she asked if she could have it, I thought "Sure!" - since I got it at one of those library purges.
shareFrom Santa Rosa, CA to Vero Beach, FL (2900 miles) but over about one week’s time. I would never try to do it continuously.
shareYears ago, I used to drive cross-country for a living. Trips from my depot in the middle of the country to either coast were always the most desirable since I was paid by the mile plus some expenses. Those were usually around 1500 miles. During a good, lucrative week, I could get two of those and maybe squeeze in a short run to a neighboring state.
shareback in the 1990s i drove a lot for work and i found it liberating. i am not sure i could do it now.
shareCrossing Europe. More than 4000 km in 3 days.
shareDid you make many stops? I've done the same, but usually on planes or trains, but not that fast!
I'd love to hear about your (and everyone else's) trips if you have time to share.
Stops depend on how I'm doing.
That time, I had a couple of places booked to sleep. When I'm gonna be driving for a while, I usually start early in the morning (and I mean being on the road by 6AM) and I stop around 8AM to have a coffee and some carbohydrates somewhere. I try to call it a day before 8PM so I can have a walk and sleep well.
Stops during the day depend on how I'm doing (GPS really helps here). If I'm doing fine, I can make some stops or even try some secondary roads instead of the highway. I love to drive in a secondary road for a while, stop in some small city to have a coffee and fill the tank. You can discover quite interesting places. Once, I was driving in a secondary road in a very foggy morning (thanks GPS!) and I stopped to stretch my legs near a WW2 cemetery I didn't even know it was there. It felt like a movie. Another time I stopped to have a coffee in a small city in Pas du Calais. One of the most lovely places I've found, and I don't even remember which was exactly the place 😢
Once, during a several days travel, I had my car searched since police thought I was carrying drugs. They found nothing (there was nothing to find), but I wasted a nice couple of hours. Funny thing, I had been thinking about stopping somewhere in Holland to get some good quality weed. I'm glad I didn't 😁
My conclusion? Give yourself an extra day and get into secondary roads. You will use more gas and an extra night, but you'll skip highway tolls and filling the tank will be cheaper. At the end of the day, budget will be more or less the same, and you're gonna enjoy it more.