What's the longest you can generally tolerate riding in a car?

Five hours then a real good leg stretch and 3 more.

Back in November I drove 13.5 hours and stopped once to throw out my piss bottles and get more jerky. It was rough. When I drive that far I prefer to find a place to camp if the weather is cool/cold

8hrs is the max I usually plan for. I’ll go a little further if needed but I prefer not to. Diminished returns at that point for the trips I’m usually taking.

Younger me would power through 12-14hrs like it was nothing but I’m too old for that shite now.

Anything over 5 hours I’m flying. I fricking hate road trips

14 or so is the longest I will do by choice. I have done much longer out of necessity. 14 hours is about 1,000 miles, so usually 2 gas stops and I am off and back on the road in less than 6 minutes.

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I fricking hate road trips

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Remove women from the equation, do you hate them that much?

I-45 from Houston to Dallas and back sucks balls. I'll sacrifice the 30m to stare at cows between Waco and Katy every time than deal with I-45.

Depends on my mindset at the time and where I’m going. Sometimes a dread a 5 hour drive but don’t mind a 10 hour drive.

I did 4 straight days of 15 hour drives across the country one time and just listened to a shite ton of podcasts. When I saw 4-6 hours remaining it seemed like nothing compared to what I had already driven.

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I did 4 straight days of 15 hour drives across the country one time and just listened to a shite ton of podcasts

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I used to burn audio books to CDs to deal with the drive From SC to LA. The drive down for a game flew by, the drive back on Sunday was always a "gut it out," situation.

Baton Rouge to Atlanta (7 and 1/2 hours) is about my limit for a typical road trip, but could go a bit farther if it's somewhat scenic. Like we've driven to Nashville a few times mainly because of the Memphis stop (Graceland, Basspro, Central City bbq, etc...)