What is the longest that you have driven

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  • ThePhoenixRose
    ThePhoenixRose Posts: 1,978 Member
    1200 miles. iowa to montana. good times... :noway:
  • lyricalLies13
    lyricalLies13 Posts: 151
    Alabama to Michigan about 650 miles...made it in about 9ish hours. Stopped only twice.
  • chicky89
    chicky89 Posts: 260 Member
    Toronto Ont Canada to St. Petesburgh, FL in 24hrs!
  • Jennloella
    Jennloella Posts: 2,286 Member
    I just got home from San Diego, we live in Portland, Oregon. It was about 1100 miles, did the drive home in one day =) wasn't too bad!
  • 13519485
    13519485 Posts: 264
    I drove straight through from Indianapolis to Venice, FL once in about 16 hours. That's like 1,000 miles, I think.
  • cherbapp
    cherbapp Posts: 322
    We drove home from Yellowstone (through mountains) to Wisconsin (just over 1000 miles) in exactly 24 hours. Left at 7 am and got home at 7 am...my husband drove the entire time and I was afraid to sleep the last few hours because I was afraid he would fall asleep. LOL

    We only stopped for gas and McDonalds and rest stops...nothing more than 10 minutes.

    Never again. But we were pulling a popup camper and didn't wanna spend a whole 'nother night setting up and tearing down....now we pull a hard-side camper and just go to bed when we get tired of driving. :)
  • NanaKK1234
    NanaKK1234 Posts: 79 Member
    LOL I was thinking about posting all my trips on here but that would be unfair.


    LOL Hubby and I have done several team trips in one of our tractor trailers :-)

    But I just did Christiana, TN to Danbury, CT in 15.5 hours 1000 miles
  • Lempi
    Lempi Posts: 7
    Absolutely doable. Have some healthy small meals along in a cooler (whole wheat sandwiches, carrots, fruit etc), lots of water. Make sure you have all your favorite music with you. Crank the tunes, enjoy what nature has to offer and think of it as an adventure. We drive to our cabin (550 miles) sometimes after work on a Friday and arrive in the wee hours. Enjoy your trip!.
    A friend from Canada.
  • juliep1974
    juliep1974 Posts: 222 Member
    On my own the longest was Denver, CO to LA straight through (just stopping for gas). It was a long and rather boring drive.
  • bellygoaway
    bellygoaway Posts: 441 Member
    Stopping only for gas, just over 1000 miles, from outside Dallas Tx to Columbus OH by myself. I made it in 12 hours.
  • jaskelley
    jaskelley Posts: 62 Member
    I drove from Chicago, Illinois to Camp Pendleton, California in 1973. Only stopping for gas. Approximately 2,000 miles. On a motorcycle. Right after I made bail.

    With "right after I made bail," this guy wins, hands down. Or maybe hands up, in this case.

    I drove from Omaha, NE to around and hour west of Pittsburgh in one day. Took around 16.5 hours. It wasn't even that bad. I listened to podcasts the entire ride.
  • loseweightjames
    loseweightjames Posts: 360 Member
    in one day?

    I have a 900 mile trip coming up that I am planning on doing in one day.

    alone?

    houston to saint louis, 834 miles, one day, i was picking up a car i bought on ebay

    boston to louisville, 1,007 miles, picking up another car I bought

    that is all
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member
    1200 miles, from GF North Dakota to someplace in Oklahoma. I think it was about 22 hours.
  • xSophia19
    xSophia19 Posts: 1,536 Member
    the longest I have driven is 4 hours! Ages ago i had a 4 hour driving lessson! it killed my legs! :(

    I am doing my pass plus soon which is about a 6 hour drive. so god help my legs!:laugh:
  • MinnieInMaine
    MinnieInMaine Posts: 6,400 Member
    Shared the driving but went from Portland, ME to Washington DC in one day - that's about 600 miles.

    ETA: Almost forgot about the road trip to my college roommate's wedding! That was a bit farther - just under 700 miles from Portland, ME to Kitchener, ON (Cananda).
  • Yes2HealthyAriel
    Yes2HealthyAriel Posts: 453 Member
    Drove from Oregon to South Carolina with 3 kids in the car. Took 2 days. Not sure how much distance we did in one. I also drove from South Carolina to Florida in 8 hours a couple years back for Christmas with all 3 kids in car.
  • 223730
    223730 Posts: 55
    About 630 miles in one trip, by myself: Elkton, MD to Lexington, KY.
  • Nerple
    Nerple Posts: 1,291 Member
    Mine was pretty pedestrian compared to some of these. Coming out of Kaiserslautern Germany, and touring Belgium for the day. Was about 13-14 hours of driving total split up into several segments for gas and attractions. Driving time was increased significantly on the way back, when the GPS did not know the A1 north of Trier was closed completely, so had to rely on the paper map I had with autobahns only and skirted around Koblenz and Mainz on the way back to Kaiserslautern.

    The longest single segement I've ever driven was really short. Altus, OK to Clovis, NM and back. Or from Haverhill, MA to Utica, NY and back. Not sure which one took longer.
  • melg126
    melg126 Posts: 378
    I've done it before... almost 1,000 miles from Lancaster, PA to Orlando, FL... by myself. I stopped to take a nap though a couple of times.

    You can do it!
  • 600racer
    600racer Posts: 149 Member
    What felt like the longest was only 560 miles in two days but is was on a sport bike set up for racing while in full race leathers in the summer time. It was from Tupelo, Ms to Chatanooga, Tn to ride in the Trail of Tears Motorcycle Ride with 100,000 other riders. Luckily the route had a overnight stopping point an hour from my house. I had to have help getting off the bike without dropping it.
  • MissVCI
    MissVCI Posts: 277 Member
    In a car with other drivers trading off shifts: Washington DC to Miami Beach. (17hrs)

    In a car with passengers but only one driving. NJ to Hilton Head, SC (11 hours)

    In a car driving solo no passengers: Hilton Head, SC to Miami Beach (9 hrs) (part of a 3 day trek from NJ) I refuse to drive more than 9 hours by myself for safety reasons, it's gets hard to stay alert once I go past 9 hrs straight.
  • mrmanmeat
    mrmanmeat Posts: 1,968 Member
    1200.

    stopped 3 times.
  • Abells
    Abells Posts: 756 Member
    great music will push it! haha

    I drove from Atlanta, GA to North Jersey straight. About 14 hours -- not too shabby.
    About 850 miles



    Might be driving from NJ to colorado soon - should be fun

    haha yeah i drove reallllyyy fast -- stopped for gas twice and ate some food and hit a massive rain thunderstorm and still made it in that time

    I do Atlanta to North Jersey at least once a year. 14 hours is about right. Atlanta to Chicago every couple years. That is about 12-13 hours.

    ugh NJ to Colorado is going to be long!
  • melg126
    melg126 Posts: 378
    What felt like the longest was only 560 miles in two days but is was on a sport bike set up for racing while in full race leathers in the summer time. It was from Tupelo, Ms to Chatanooga, Tn to ride in the Trail of Tears Motorcycle Ride with 100,000 other riders. Luckily the route had a overnight stopping point an hour from my house. I had to have help getting off the bike without dropping it.

    Ouch
  • ❤lindsay❤dawn❤
    ❤lindsay❤dawn❤ Posts: 443
    12 hours to Midland, TX...

    : ))
  • XtyAnn17
    XtyAnn17 Posts: 632 Member
    26 hour drive straight no sleep
  • StephWinn
    StephWinn Posts: 9
    West Virginia to Texas. 24hours straight!
  • thomo71
    thomo71 Posts: 20 Member
    Did 3000 miles from Chicago around the top of Lake Michigan and back down, so about 300 miles a day in a toyota corolla automatic, lovely car, great places and very friendly Americans. Met a sailor called blue and we went canoing on a lake in his back yard. Got to go back one day. I loved America!!!:smile::drinker:
  • runwithitwerewinning
    runwithitwerewinning Posts: 39 Member
    In one shot, by myself I went from eastern MI to Minneapolis, about 700 miles. My wife and I went from texas to michigan, spending the night in memphis. that's about 1500 miles. i'd def suggest good music and not pushing yourself too hard
  • LenaMena87
    LenaMena87 Posts: 469 Member
    11 hrs...Lexington KY to Jacksonville NC sometimes Wilmington...I do it all the time !

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