Longest Drive You’ve Ever Done?

Lake Tahoe, CA to Chattanooga, TN. 33 hours. had my brother with me to take turns. had a cooler full of soda.

really weird to see the sun come up twice on one drive.

I once drove a car (with Hawaiian license plates) from Hawaii to California. The car was on a large treadmill on the back of a barge, so technically, the treadmill did all the work, but I'm still counting it.

ray dio wrote:

Syracuse to Dallas: 30 hours

Is this the longest? Has anybody else drive longer? Remember, the question is, "What is the longest drive you've ever done (time and distance) by yourself, stopping only for gas?"

Theoretically, if you were sharing driving responsibilities with somebody else, you could drive forever.

Any idiot can do a long drive, especially if they switch off driving with a passenger or 2 in the car. I wonder what the longest drive someone did and raced on the same day.

I normally begin my drive from 200-300 to go in the 800, but the one time I sat back a bit in the first lap I was able to drive 350m and pass four guys to take a national silver medal in 45-49.

Kvothe wrote:

Any idiot can do a long drive, especially if they switch off driving with a passenger or 2 in the car. I wonder what the longest drive someone did and raced on the same day.

I'll start. I live at the Jersey Shore and ran the Erie Marathon in 2017. There were no convenient flights so I drove there Saturday and back Sunday after the race. 350 miles.

Once drove Cleveland to Philadelphia suburbs - 6 hours with NO stops except red lights and toll-booths. Not even gas or food.

15 hours from Vermont to Chicago. I was very grumpy and tired by the end of it and ended up getting into a shouting match at a stop light with some guy I'd accidentally cut off.

Road Warrior wrote:

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.

This is awesome, although the whole driving part doesn't really appeal to me.

RI and New Britain, Ct, and back, Several times. Gas and pee and go. 21-24 hours, Can't divulge is uppers were involved, or not...

Las Vegas to Dayton OH - 39 hrs. Had to pull over for a short nap though. Still averaged over 50 mph.

Flash Lightning wrote:What is the longest drive you’ve ever done (time and distance) by yourself, stopping only for gas?

By myself it would be from Seattle to Provo, Utah straight through 14 hours and about 870 miles. It's probably faster now because of better interstate between Yakima and Pendleton, OR.

Have driven across the US a number of times. Georgia to Seattle, Utah to Georgia, West Virginia to Seattle, Illinois to Seattle etc., but it was always with someone else who could help drive.

12 hours. Central Texas to eastern Kansas. I drive a gas guzzler that gets 14 mpg on the highway, so I had to stop for gas a lot. Also my non-existent runner's booty tends to fall asleep after about 2 hours in the car, so the last 10 hours was a grind.

9 inch spike. Took me 4 whacks with a hammer.

My longest solo non-stop was Vancouver, WA to Webster, SD. A touch over 1500 miles.

Boston to Minneapolis, about 21 hours. The last few hours were ill advised.

September 1-3, 1977 San Jose, Ca to Quantico, Va. in my 1970 Camero. I’ll never to that again!

I've never driven further than Edmonton-Calgary. That's maybe 180 miles.

3 hours drive.

I would love to drive the hell out of Edmonton to New York City. Might take a week or longer but that would be the drive of my life and I'd enjoy it.

Drove NYC to The Portofino (if you know what that means) with a friend at the wheel in just over 35 hours, trying to go a bit quicker than that.

Only stopped for gas and to pee while doing so.

Edmonton, Alberta to Savannah, Georgia.