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re: What is the farthest road trip you have ever driven?
Posted on 12/22/17 at 2:05 pm to toosleaux
Posted on 12/22/17 at 2:05 pm to toosleaux
Slidll to Chicago in the ice storm a few years ago. Was expecting 12 hours, took 21 over 2 days. Was making good time til Tennessee, where there was a couple inches of ice on the road with two wheel ruts down the lane. Traffic was creeping for hours - you could just idle and let go of the wheel and the car would stay in the ice ruts. Yet while cars were doing 5-15 mph in the ice ruts in the right lane, 18 wheelers were doing 50+ in the left lane. Jack-knifed 18 wheelers all over the place. Traffic came to a stop for a couple hours and we thought we’d have to sleep on the interstate. Eventually was able to get off and find a Motel 6, where they had to shovel away a foot and a half of snow just to open the door to our room. The rest of the way was easy the next day once we hit the areas where they were used to icy conditions. Wife wanted to trun back in Tenn. but no way was I turning around. Awesome vacation and our most memorable road trip,
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Posted on 12/22/17 at 2:21 pm to toosleaux
Maricopa, AZ to Cocoa Beach, FL 2,171 miles one way (4342 total).
Posted on 12/22/17 at 2:22 pm to toosleaux
BR to Bellingham, WA
Posted on 12/22/17 at 2:26 pm to toosleaux
Baton Rouge to New Jersey, non-stop
Posted on 12/22/17 at 2:36 pm to toosleaux
In one single continuous (no including fueling up and eating) drive? Santa Monica, CA to Ruston, LA. 1,700 miles 24+ hours...3 people, two vehicles. 6 hours of driving and 3 off the wheel.
Broken up over a few days? Baton Rouge>Knoxville>NYC>Boston>Cooperstown, NY>Buffalo>Cleveland>Chicago>St. Louis>Memphis>Baton Rouge. 3,546 miles 54+hours of driving over 10 days. 4 people, 1 vehicle (Baseball trip at graduation) We saw:
Tennessee Smokies (Cubs AA)
Nationals day game
Orioles night game
Mets @Yankees
Redsox
Hall of Fame
Went to Buffalo to eat wings at Anchor Bar (birthplace of the buffalo wing)
Indians
Cubs day game
Whitesox night game
Cardinals
night on Beale Street
ETA: forgot to add that we went to an Indians game.
Broken up over a few days? Baton Rouge>Knoxville>NYC>Boston>Cooperstown, NY>Buffalo>Cleveland>Chicago>St. Louis>Memphis>Baton Rouge. 3,546 miles 54+hours of driving over 10 days. 4 people, 1 vehicle (Baseball trip at graduation) We saw:
Tennessee Smokies (Cubs AA)
Nationals day game
Orioles night game
Mets @Yankees
Redsox
Hall of Fame
Went to Buffalo to eat wings at Anchor Bar (birthplace of the buffalo wing)
Indians
Cubs day game
Whitesox night game
Cardinals
night on Beale Street
ETA: forgot to add that we went to an Indians game.
This post was edited on 12/22/17 at 2:42 pm
Posted on 12/22/17 at 2:38 pm to toosleaux
Seattle to New Orleans through the span of about a week and a half
Posted on 12/22/17 at 2:38 pm to toosleaux
From ATL to lake Muskoka in Canada.
It's about 1050 miles, not so bad.
It's about 1050 miles, not so bad.
This post was edited on 12/22/17 at 2:42 pm
Posted on 12/22/17 at 2:39 pm to toosleaux
Denham Springs to Portland Ore.
Made that drive about about a dozen times in the 90's.
Made that drive about about a dozen times in the 90's.
Posted on 12/22/17 at 2:42 pm to toosleaux
Baton Rouge to Phoenix
Posted on 12/22/17 at 2:48 pm to OweO
yes it was....sunrise was in kansas and was in between chattanooga and nashville when it got dark. really shouldnt have kept going but i wasnt stopping at that point. by the time i was close to home i was seeing shite that wasnt there on the side of the road
Posted on 12/22/17 at 2:51 pm to toosleaux
New Orleans to the country of Panama. 9 days
New Orleans to the Arctic Circle in Alaska. Over 45 days
New Orleans to the Arctic Circle in Alaska. Over 45 days
Posted on 12/22/17 at 2:53 pm to toosleaux
I plan to drive the Pan-American highway before I die.
Posted on 12/22/17 at 2:58 pm to toosleaux
Viera, Florida to Burlington, Vermont.
Awesome drive, although part of 95 can be dreadful.
Awesome drive, although part of 95 can be dreadful.
Posted on 12/22/17 at 2:58 pm to toosleaux
When I was in college I had a summer internship in Houston, but buddies had them in L.A. and, Jacksonville.
Just after internships end, buddy in L.A. calls me. His car broke down. He is just going to leave it in L.A. to be impounded and fly home. I offer to go pick him up, so I drove to LA to pick him up. We then decide to skip through Baton Rouge and drive to Jacksonville to see our other friend, mostly so we can say we drove coast to coast.
So longest road trio I ever took was i-10 from Houston to LA then from LA to Jacksonville.
Just after internships end, buddy in L.A. calls me. His car broke down. He is just going to leave it in L.A. to be impounded and fly home. I offer to go pick him up, so I drove to LA to pick him up. We then decide to skip through Baton Rouge and drive to Jacksonville to see our other friend, mostly so we can say we drove coast to coast.
So longest road trio I ever took was i-10 from Houston to LA then from LA to Jacksonville.
This post was edited on 12/22/17 at 3:00 pm
Posted on 12/22/17 at 3:01 pm to toosleaux
Miami to Anchorage
Posted on 12/22/17 at 3:07 pm to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
quote:
I plan to drive the Pan-American highway before I die.
It's awesome, but you will have to put your rig on a ferry (can't remember the name) when you get to the Isthmus of Panama.
Posted on 12/22/17 at 3:08 pm to toosleaux
Baton Rouge to Yosmite in 4 days
Posted on 12/22/17 at 3:11 pm to toosleaux
I drove from ABQ to Memphis in a single day once.
Took two turns the whole day before I was in my neighborhood that night.
Took two turns the whole day before I was in my neighborhood that night.
Posted on 12/22/17 at 3:13 pm to crazyLSUstudent
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Baton Rouge to Yosmite in 4 days
On a bicycle?
Posted on 12/22/17 at 3:13 pm to toosleaux
Longest continuous in the car trip is either Atlanta to Dallas or Victoria, Texas to Atlanta.
Longest round trip (over about 2 weeks) was Atlanta --> Paducah, Kentucky --> Lincoln, Nebraska --> Cheyenne, Wyoming --> Laramie, Wyoming --> Ft. Collins, Colorado --> Rocky Mountain National Park --> Boulder, Colorado --> Denver --> Bryce Canyon, Utah --> Las Vegas --> Williams, Arizona --> Grand Canyon --> Memphis --> Birmingham --> Atlanta.
Longest round trip (over about 2 weeks) was Atlanta --> Paducah, Kentucky --> Lincoln, Nebraska --> Cheyenne, Wyoming --> Laramie, Wyoming --> Ft. Collins, Colorado --> Rocky Mountain National Park --> Boulder, Colorado --> Denver --> Bryce Canyon, Utah --> Las Vegas --> Williams, Arizona --> Grand Canyon --> Memphis --> Birmingham --> Atlanta.
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