What is the longest drive you’ve ever done (time and distance) by yourself, stopping only for gas?
What is the longest drive you’ve ever done (time and distance) by yourself, stopping only for gas?
Aspen, CO to Dayton, OH. 21 hours I think.
Denver to San Antonio. Was going to stop in Dumas to sleep but was running short on time as I had to check into a new apartment by a certain time the following day, so I drove through the night in a moving truck with a broken air conditioner in July. Most miserable drive of my life.
Dallas to Chicago.
And:
Montreal to Chicago.
I once drove all the way to Pittsburgh
I did a sea to summit drive from the Santa Monica pier in California to the summit of Mt. Evans, Colorado.
Just over 1000 miles and 16 hours. When I got out of my car to run that short ~500m trail to the 14,265' peak, it felt like the ground was still moving.
I've also done the reverse. I picked the longest day of the year, saw the sunrise at Mt. Evans, and saw the sunset in Santa Monica. The whole thing felt surreal.
And then there's my hardcore friend who somehow did all of that on a motorcycle.
Maybe 10-12 hours. Not sure, gas only was not something I kept track of on cross country drives. I've done a lot of across US and Canada to and from Alaska and CA/east coast drives by myself or with a dog. But I also stopped to sleep in the back of the car, stopped for food, and also would go for a run and multiple dog walks each day. The longest stretches gas only might have been driving until 3 am or so looking for a safe place to stop at night in middle of nowhere BC or Yukon or Ontario in the middle of winter.
I've driven across the country 5 times. Had some pretty long days, but I think the longest was 17 hours (including stops for food, gas etc). Baltimore to some hotel off the freeway in the middle of Missouri.
~290 yards but it was downhill
Seattle to Joshua Tree Monument, about 22 hours, no sleep.
Naples FL to Chicago IL. Took about 25 hours. 1500 miles, as I recall. The stretch through TN was the worst, with left lane hogs all over the place.
Minnesota border to Ithaca, NY overnight. I had a final exam due at 11:00am and I made it back by 10.
Grand Forks, ND to Buffalo, NY. Was going to stop halfway in Marquette, MI in the UP but there was some event in town and every single hotel in the area was sold out. Said screw it and just decided to drive straight through. Got really drowsy around 2am in Northern Michigan so I did stop for about 2 hours to get a little rest. Trip took about 22-23 hours total.
I would need a pretty steep hill to drive 290 yards.
Living in New Jersey with five kids - my wife and I would drive to Orlando for Disney trips. 16 hours was standard each way - but to be honest we sometimes stopped overnight.
Now the kids are grown and we own a house in Tampa. I rarely drive there but once in a while we need to move a car from one place to the other so it's On The Road Again. No stops but gas-rest room-coffee stops a few times.
During hurricane Sandy I-95 was full of New Jersey license plates heading south!
Star wrote:
I would need a pretty steep hill to drive 290 yards.
Doesn't Nike have something to help with that?
I hit a drive 450ish yards once. It was very downhill with a tail wind. Usually I'm in the 280-300 range under normal conditions
Syracuse to Dallas: 30 hours
Got me beat, only 27 hours going from Daytona Beach to Oklahoma City with lower speed limits in the 1980's
I put one out there about 340 yards my senior year in high school, but it was using one of those undersized golf balls that were illegal to use in competition.
Hey, wait a minute ..
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