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To see the eclipse I drove about 800 miles in 2-3 days, it was exhausting

Like an hour, longer than that I pay for gas if they drive.

I've done a tour with a band from Montreal Canada all the way out to Vancouver Island (again, still Canada), then went as far south as Medford Oregon only to drive back through the states to return to Montreal (did some gigs in between, obviously).

It took us three weeks, so whatever the hell that is in KM.

10 hours

When I personally drove from Dallas to Chicago.

All the other states I've traveled to (on land), I either rode on travel busses or carpooled with friends/coworkers.

Driven cross country between Rhode Island and Southern California a few times. Roughly 3200 miles cause of the route I took.

The one that springs to mind was a 48 hour drive from Michigan to Tennessee for a drive along the Blue Ridge Parkway up through Virginia and back. About 1500 miles in two days.

Around 14-16 hours. Chicago to Denver.

Knoxville to Myrtle Beach, over 400 miles

Sebring or Titusville
Sebring to talk to my business partners family about supplying product for us.
Titusville. Sister's wedding

About 7 hours once, but 1-1.5 of that was due to detours and construction delays.

When I was in the Navy a few times I went home with friends to where they were from. About 13 hours of driving one way was the longest where it was worth it for a long weekend.

Had a good friend who got out of the Navy and was from Texas El Paso. We were in Norfolk Virginia. Him and his brother came to visit us and he drove straight through. 2,000 miles. 30 hours straight. I was happy to see him, he surprised us but I was like fuck that. I would have flown. He stayed like 3 days then they had to get back. Thats a long ass drive.

I drove from STL to Del Rio TX and back in a single trip. Never again......

Depending on how you count it:

longest without returning home: probably tens of thousands of miles between summer of 07 and thanksgiving of 07, but it involved a lot of waiting at truck stops between deliveries and sleeping in my van.
In one day: probably from here (TN) to austin, TX, which is just under a thousand miles. Left first thing in the morning, got there late at night.
Over a couple of days: probably green bay WI to whichever border town in TX that i drove to. It was one of the trips I made in 2007 as a OTR delivery driver.

10 hours with one noteworthy break.

Without a noteworthy break, I follow the trucker rule of 8 hours then swap.

Amsterdam-Frankfurt and back the same day, think it's about 500km getting there and another 500 going back. Spent about 14 hours driving that day.

The good news was i got to drive my employers Porsche for the trip

haarlem1982 posted...

The good news was i got to drive my employers Porsche for the trip

I wish I was that trusting. I have a hard time letting my helpers and workers use my service trucks. Lol They know the rules.

Iowa to DC.

900+ miles from home to school a couple of times. My last time it took me more than 24 hours since I had to take more and longer breaks.

St. Louis, MO to Destin, FL in one go. I think it was about 14-15 hours. Not a whole lot of fun.

I don't know. Maybe 5-10 minutes? I hate driving.

12 hours from Kamloops to Calgary.

Ill be breaking my own record this week though. Gonna be almost 13 from Surrey to Twin Falls and then another 12 from Twin Falls to Paradise Valley.

Vicious_Dios posted...

I wish I was that trusting. I have a hard time letting my helpers and workers use my service trucks. Lol They know the rules.

Yeah, well, my employer is kinda cool like that, doesn't seem to care about material damages. I've seen a co worker drive the front end of a forklift into a company car and he was just like '*shrug* shit happens'

I've done 16 hours or so from Montana to Minneapolis a few times. But the longest single day of driving I've done is about 20 hours from Austin to South Dakota.

Recently drove 7 hours casually, back on Good Friday, not really going anywhere.

Farthest south was Morris Plains, NJ
Farthest north was Wayawanda, NY
Farthest west was Milford, PA
Farthest east was Englewood, NJ

It was just a bunch of random driving in the general area. I got into PA via I-84 in NY so I never paid a toll or anything.

With me actually doing the driving? Roughly 200 miles (3.5 hours) up to my gf's hometown.

But the longest time I've spent in the car, was when my mom drove us from Los Angeles up to Lake Tahoe, at the Northern California/Nevada border. And that was roughly 490 miles (7.75 hours).

6 hours. To San Diego or Las Vegas from AZ.

9 hours from Fayetteville Arkansas to Houston Texas

2 hours from central Denmark to northern Germany and back. 4 hours in all.