re: What’s the longest travel day you’ve ever experienced time-wise?

I drove with a friend from Baton Rouge to Whittier, California back in 1995 in a moving truck that had a top speed of about 60mph with the pedal to the floor.

We did the trip in one shot with us shifting out behind the wheel. It took at least 30 hours. No phones. No CD or cassette player. Just FM radio and a long drive down I-10.

Slept in the ATL airport last year. It was part of a three legged path over two days. Brutal experience.

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Mine has to be close to 35-36 hours.

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More than that.. New Orleans to Atlanta to Paris to Sofia, Bulgaria... then a cab to the bus station and a 7-8 hour bus ride to Razgrad, Bulgaria.

With layovers and everything in the 48 hour range.

I just did 13 hours from my house in Alabama to Sugarloaf Mountain in Maine yesterday. I’ve done longer but don’t care to revisit.

Between sleeps: 32 hours.

11:00PM flight from Saigon to Tokyo, 10 hour layover at Haneda, to DFW, to OKC, went straight to a club for an evening with friends, afterparty until 2:00-ish, ten finally home. Jet lag can suck, but it can also be awesome.

I was stuck in the Atlanta airport a few months back for 2.5 days. It was that Friday morning where some genius decided to update whatever all the airlines use which promptly shut the world down for a day. Every TV in the airport was showing that blue screen of death that happens to windows OS. My first flight out of Indy was delayed 6 hours, but once I made it to that hellhole of an airport in Atlanta, it was 2 days of roaming around in there. No hotels were available within 30 miles and trying to uber was a nightmare so I decided to stick it out in there. There were so many people living in that airport that weekend that you could feel the heat from the bodies and don't get me started on the smell. There were literally thousands of people standing in the customer service queue, but some angel gate attendant pulled me out of line and asked where I was trying to fly to. I told her Baton Rouge(all cancelled for 2 days) but she found me a flight to Lafayette that next morning and even moved me up to "first class". I ended up riding from Lafyette back to BR with some strangers I met because one of the dudes had a car there. We became buds after spending those 48 hours in the airport together moving from gate to gate after we each had 6 flights cancelled. All in all I was originally supposed to be back in BR Friday at 10:30 AM, but ended up getting home Sunday around noon.

Drive in one day: Houston-Amarillo-Houston to drop off a friend who had bought a truck there. Only stopped for gas.

Flight: 13 hours in the air

I drove 22 hours from Denver to Baton Rouge nonstop. Won't do that again. From snowing hard, then sleet, then rain. Miserable driving conditions.

36 hours with a one year old lap child

New Orleans to Singapore, with layover in San Francisco
Was supposed to have 4 hour layover but the United crew didn't show up for the early morning flight out of MSY so that was delayed enough to miss the layover which turned into 12 hours. Follow that up with a 16 hour flight to Singapore. Good god.

Longest straight drive was 14.5hrs Sandusky OH to New Orleans.

We had a terrible return from a group travel trip to Europe a few years ago. The return was supposed to take about 16 hours total with a short flight from Rome to Paris a 2 hour layover then a 9 1/2 hour flight to Houston and a bus ride back to SWLA.

The flight from Rome was delayed so the tour guide decided to take matters into their own hands and change flights from Paris and with there being 38 of us we were all split up on different flights all over the US. We ended up only being delayed by about 45 minutes and a few folks who had upgraded their own flights easily made the original flight. Then we sat in Paris until we were able to get on board a flight to ATL. We then sat overnight in ATL until the connection to Houston.

All told I slept about 3 hours on the Paris to ATL flight and it took us about 46 hours total to get home.