Ever take a road trip?!?!

xYumzx
xYumzx Posts: 953 Member
edited December 24 in Chit-Chat
Where to and what was it like??

Mine was from NY to CO.... it was all great until my AC died in NEBRASKA OR IOWA and all I smelt for miles was cow dung and more cow dung... along with all I saw was cow dung... lol

Also note to anyone ... seriously never watch "The Hills Have Eyes" the day before a road trip... messes you all up lol
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  • mewaybright
    mewaybright Posts: 240 Member
    Many times, AR to LA, AL to MI, AL to LA, AL to WY, FL to NH... AL to Melbourne FL (many times), AL to NC (Many times) btw most of these were on my motorcycle. I love being on the road... I have always been a travel type person... German to Italy, German to Switzerland... rode through France as well... gotta love it. And all without AC.. lol
  • YokoJ
    YokoJ Posts: 253
    Drove/rode from South Carolina all the way to San Diego, CA....it was awesome! Stopped every 15 hrs.
  • ChrisRS87
    ChrisRS87 Posts: 781 Member
    NY to VA, my buddies and I went down to meet these girls we met on spring break for a massive block party at JMU, it was several thousand people, drinking from 11am-2am. Awesome time.

    We also made the drive from NY to Panama City for spring break.
  • qballjr13
    qballjr13 Posts: 174 Member
    I am leaving on the 8th to drive from Mass to Pennsylvania with a 6 year old and a 2 year old. Does that count? :)
  • Lizabee84
    Lizabee84 Posts: 346 Member
    We drive from Louisiana to Maryland almost every year.Always in late November so it is cold as hell and we usually hit icy road. Which being in Louisiana is a rare thing to deal with. We take different routes and stop to hike. I love being on the road. I have always loved traveling. I just need to work my way to the west coast too.
  • Miss_dannii
    Miss_dannii Posts: 1,351 Member
    Last weekend, Dublin to Belfast with my bestie x
  • Lleldiranne
    Lleldiranne Posts: 5,516 Member
    From Salt Lake City, UT to Rapid City, SD (with 3 kids age 2,5,7)
    From Salt Lake City to Cody, WY and Yellowstone (kids now 7,9,11)
    From Salt Lake City to Dallas, sans kids, but with a bunch of girlfriends
    From SLC to San Diego, solo

    I love road trips! Getting there really is half the fun, especially when you're with great company. Still deciding where to go this year, but it has to be close-ish with a 9 month old baby
  • lacroyx
    lacroyx Posts: 5,754 Member
    Seattle, WA down the west coast all the way into the baja of Mexico.
  • creech6317
    creech6317 Posts: 869 Member
    When I was a kid (7 years old), my mother, my sister (4 years old) and two aunts took two months and camped in a tent across the US. We started in Washington state and went to Kentucky (by way of Florida). I still remember parts of it. It was such a fun time for my sister and I.

    Myself I have done the roadtrip from Wa to Ca a few times. Or my daughter and I will get in the car on a Saturday and pick a direction and just drive until we find something we want to check out. We ended up in Gilroy one time (about 5 hours from our house). Monterey another. It is always fun to just explore.
  • KBrenOH
    KBrenOH Posts: 704 Member
    I've had several road trips as a child, but as an adult.. my first solo road trip was from Ohio to Phoenix, Arizona. Another few road trips done with my husband/kids have been Ohio to Niagara Falls, Canada; Ohio to Raleigh, NC (and then on to the OBX), Ohio to Myrtle Beach, SC and Ohio to Boston, MA.

    I love traveling so any chance I get, I'm gone!
  • KBrenOH
    KBrenOH Posts: 704 Member
    Seattle, WA down the west coast all the way into the baja of Mexico.

    that sounds awesome.
  • PlunderBunneh
    PlunderBunneh Posts: 1,705 Member
    Before kids, from Colorado to Virginia right after husband and I got married. And in trying to replace the car cd changer, he clipped the wrong wire, so no radio or cd player the whole way. Lots of bonding that trip haha. Also the drive back, stopping through Florida, when his enlistment finished up, while I was about 6 months preggo.
    Since we had kids, we haven't dared for anything longer than 6 hours. I think we may be ready for it soon, largely in thanks to the entire first season of My Little Ponies FIM on the hard drive of my tablet hehe.
  • Twisted_Wrister
    Twisted_Wrister Posts: 758 Member
    Buffalo to Myrtle Beach for Spring Break and Buffalo to Panama City Beach, (twice), for Spring Break. Good times when you're with your friends on such a long drive. It was long before the days of GPS so it was fun to actually use a map and road signs.
    For work I had to drive from AZ to GA then GA to NY. Did this trip solo and there was something really peaceful about being on the road by myself.
  • EmCarroll1990
    EmCarroll1990 Posts: 2,832 Member
    I took a road trip from Toronto, ON to Scott Depot, WV. 11 hour drive. It was a lot of fun, we brought some ganja with us so it made the trip less boring.
  • ejohndrow
    ejohndrow Posts: 1,399 Member
    Layton UT to Washington State a few times
    Layton Ut to Phx AZ a few times (moved out there)
    Phx Az to Layton UT a few times (back to UT for a week then off to boot camp).
    Layton Ut to La, CA twice
    Bellevue NE, to Layton UT
  • macpatti
    macpatti Posts: 4,280 Member
    Also note to anyone ... seriously never watch "The Hills Have Eyes" the day before a road trip... messes you all up lol
    We road trip often. I still have trouble driving by a corn field after seeing Children of the Corn when I was a teenager!
  • Dadof8
    Dadof8 Posts: 146 Member
    Years ago I did a trip from Ann Arbor, Mi. to Fairbanks Alaska. 9,900 Miles round trip, we stopped on a mountain pass on August 10th and had a snow ball fight!
  • Renae_Nae
    Renae_Nae Posts: 935 Member
    FL, TN, Chicago, KS and every combination of the 4 lol. I've done it with the whole family and by myself several times.
  • crobl
    crobl Posts: 380
    every time I visit my parents for x-mas it's a road trip!! About 15 hours from the hills of Kentucky to the frozen tundra of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Best trip though... From the UP to Cut Off, Louisiana (about 1.5 hours sound of NOLA)
  • SaraBelle0312
    SaraBelle0312 Posts: 328 Member
    I will probably be going cross country next year to move from Florida to Seattle, WA. :D I can't wait!
  • Pollywog39
    Pollywog39 Posts: 1,730 Member
    Back when the 'x' and I were together, we took a road trip from Duluth MN to Hotlanta GA....................he was relocating for a job.

    The x was a road-rage driver, so many times it was rather unpleasant..........but I must say I saw sites that I remember to this day!

    We also took our daughters to the Black Hills in SD.................a fun trip in many ways, but again, the road-rage thing was always an issue with this man!

    I didn't get my license until I was 45 years old! But I've travelled alone from my home in Duluth to Des Moines, IA...........a few times :bigsmile: :bigsmile:
  • SVCat
    SVCat Posts: 1,483 Member
    I picked up my daughter after texting her and inviting her for some Dairy Queen. Live in Sierra Vista, AZ. Drove up to Tucson...music was good, and so was conversation...so kept driving to Phoenix...en route to Phoenix, I saw the 8 to sunny San Diego so took that route. Enjoyed our Dairy Queen in Mission Bay, CA. Best road trip ever...
  • La_Amazona
    La_Amazona Posts: 4,855 Member
    Not yet but I will soon. A friend of mine wants me to visit him in Minnesota in September. We will be meeting in Austin and then driving to Minnesota for a couple of days. I'm so excited!!!!
  • menletti
    menletti Posts: 96 Member
    More road trips than I can possibly count. Loved them all!
  • sjmgde
    sjmgde Posts: 381 Member
    Not yet but I will soon. A friend of mine wants me to visit him in Minnesota in September. We will be meeting in Austin and then driving to Minnesota for a couple of days. I'm so excited!!!!

    My home state. Born and raised in SOuthMinneapolis. I LOVE MN
  • bigmac9211
    bigmac9211 Posts: 6
    From Detroit, MI to Clearwater, FL. Best two weeks of my life. I was with a bunch of close friends, and we bonded so well on the trip.
  • mommy2AR
    mommy2AR Posts: 2,796 Member
    Plenty! Iowa to all parts of Nebraska. Missouri to Mississippi, Iowa to Texas, Missouri to Ohio
  • 77tes
    77tes Posts: 8,572 Member
    Every summer the hubby and I would pack our 3 kids into the back of our '81 Honda Accord and drive from L.A. to eastern WYO. Our little old car (and it got older and older as the years went by and the backseat got more full with growing girls) couldn't take the grades with the AC on, so we would have to climb the mountains with no AC, and on particularly steep grades, we would have to turn on the heater. We played 20 questions, sang "100 Bottles of Beer," the kids played their favorite cassettes -- over and over again.

    I miss those days -- road trips seem so tame now.:cry:
  • GrandmaPeridow
    GrandmaPeridow Posts: 84 Member
    So many I can't remember them all. One very memorable road trip from Salt Lake City, Utah to Cody, Wyoming. We had four adults, three kids ages 7, 9 and 11 and all our camping gear packed into a Dodge Durango. Fortunatly we picked up another vehicle in Cody, before going to camp in Yellowstone National Park. :noway: :smile:
  • ElizaRoche
    ElizaRoche Posts: 2,005 Member
    I did twice........ and it was F BORING!!!.... never again, give me a plane and ill wait for you in our destination :smile:
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