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My wife and I just got back from a trip to the Biltmore House in North Carolina and Washington D.C.  The trip wasn't all that bad, but we drove the entire trip, so coming home to Pensacola, Florida made me extremely tired of driving and traffic.
 
But this wasn't my longest trip that we have driven.  We took a trip from Columbus, Georgia to New Hampshire one year.  I won't do that again without wings.

So what is the longest distance that you have driven (for vacation, to visit, business, family matter, anything)?
Featured by: Jess at 11/18/09 1:21PM
| Closed on 12/24/09 at 10:00PM
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 1. What is the longest road trip that you have driven (or been in a car while someone else drove)? (0 points)
2%a. No more than an hour (I don't get out much)
0%b. 2-3 hours
4%c. 4-5 hours
9%d. 6-7 hours
2%e. 7-8 hours
7%f. 9-10 hours
9%g. 11-12 hours
67%h. 13 or more hours
 2. How many states did you cross on your trip? (0 points)
4%a. 1 (stayed in the same state, told you that I don't get out much)
13%b. 2
15%c. 3
13%d. 4
4%e. 5
4%f. 5
43%g. 7 or more
2%h. I'm clicking this option because I live overseas and Tom doesn't know anything about states or areas over here.
 3. Did you stop somewhere and get a hotel on the way because, you know, it was too long of a drive for you or your party? (0 points)
15%a. Pshh. Heck yea. I always find the nearest Holiday Inn Express. How do you think I got this smart?
13%b. I had to stop more than once to get some sleep/rest.
20%c. I stopped once to get some rest.
26%d. I drove straight through, but I probably should have stopped somewhere.
13%e. It wasn't a long enough of a trip to stop for rest.
0%f. Why would I stop for rest if my destination is only an hour away?
13%g. This is the greatest. Poll. Ever.

  
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#1 | 1282 days ago

 In July I drove from Chicago to San Diego to help my parents who are moving out there next summer.
1. 13 or more hours  2. 7 or more  3. I had to stop more than once to get some sleep/rest.  
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#2 | 1282 days ago

 I used to drive between Evansville, Indiana and Denver several times a year when I was in college.. Normally 13 hours, one time hit a blizzard and it took me 18
I've driven from Cleveland to Denver with my brother 20 hours straight through
and I've driven from Denver to Virginia Beach to move my brother.. We had to break this one up into two days
oh, and Denver to Vegas a few times drinking on the way out is awesome.. coming back exhausted and broke sucks
1. 13 or more hours  2. 7 or more  3. I stopped once to get some rest.  
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#3 | 1282 days ago

 Lobotomy Jones wrote:
In July I drove from Chicago to San Diego to help my parents who are moving out there next summer.
Holy crap.  How long of a drive was that?
1. 13 or more hours  2. 7 or more  3. I stopped once to get some rest.  
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#4 | 1282 days ago

 The_Real_Stoney wrote:
I used to drive between Evansville, Indiana and Denver several times a year when I was in college.. Normally 13 hours, one time hit a blizzard and it took me 18
I've driven from Cleveland to Denver with my brother 20 hours straight through
and I've driven from Denver to Virginia Beach to move my brother.. We had to break this one up into two days
oh, and Denver to Vegas a few times drinking on the way out is awesome.. coming back exhausted and broke sucks
When we drove from Georgia to New Hampshire (or Connecticut, I can't remember), we stopped a few times on the way there.  On the way home, it took us 22 hours, but we drove straight home.

We had planned on stopping to get some sleep.  But after we hit some bad traffic a couple of times (once we moved 5 miles in an hour and a half) we were borderline dilusional.  So we said "screw it, we want to get home".  I also had a cooler in the back seat for that trip, which probably added an hour to the time with all of the pee breaks.
1. 13 or more hours  2. 7 or more  3. I stopped once to get some rest.  
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#5 | 1282 days ago

 I'm Not much of a driver so i rely on public transit, especially on long routes.
1. No more than an hour (I don't get out much)  2. 1 (stayed in the same state, told you that I don't get out much)  3. It wasn't a long enough of a trip to stop for rest.  
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#6 | 1282 days ago
JRSFLAME88 (+)

When I was married my sister-in-law had terminal cancer. She lived in the suburbs of Cincinnati, Oh.  We would drive straight there (stopping only for gas and quick breaks) in a little over 12 hours and stay a week then come home for a week.  We did that for several months.

When my nephew was stationed in Va Beach, Va we got some bad news. I didn't pack anything, I just picked up my purse got in my car and drove straight to VA as fast as possible.  It took me about 12 hours.  That was the longest trip ever.  I was going up to 100 on the interstate at 2 in the morning just me and the semi's were out.  I hope I never have to make a trip like that again.
1. 13 or more hours  2. 4  3. I drove straight through, but I probably should have stopped somewhere.  
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#7 | 1282 days ago
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(Edited by 18packabs)
I drove from San Diego to New York (NO SLEEP TO BROOKLYN) in 1991,

and then

I drove from San Diego to Tampa Florida in 2001.

so I quess in 2011, I will be due for another coast to coast trip.
1. 13 or more hours  2. 7 or more  3. I had to stop more than once to get some sleep/rest.  
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#8 | 1282 days ago

 All I can tell you is that it is more fun to go east and west than north and south when traveling in Florida. Went to West Palm Beach years ago to visit my dad. I was so excited to see the 'Welcome to Florida' sign, I didn't know it was going to be 9 more hours before I got there. Went to Balitmore from South Carolina, it really wasn't a super long trip, but the hours riding around the DC-Baltimore area worked kinda like the way dog years does. GREAT POLL TOM!!! Oh yeah... ROLL TIDE! Woohoo!
1. 13 or more hours  2. 3  3. This is the greatest. Poll. Ever.  
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#9 | 1282 days ago

 Hell...just this summer, my girl and I drove from Calgary to Toronto, to New York, to Chicago, to Sturgis, and then back home to Calgary. I love road trips especially when there is someone to share the driving.
1. 13 or more hours  2. 7 or more  3. I had to stop more than once to get some sleep/rest.  
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#10 | 1282 days ago

 tpowell25 wrote:
Holy crap.  How long of a drive was that?
3 1/2 days including stops.
1. 13 or more hours  2. 7 or more  3. I had to stop more than once to get some sleep/rest.  
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#11 | 1282 days ago

 A standard trip for me is about 9 hours, but it's almost 16 from where I live now to where my husband's family lives (Billings) and we've done that twice in the past couple of years. My mom lives at about the halfway point, so we stopped there both times (to and from), to rest overnight.

We've driven for 16+ hours besides Billings though, but not necessarily because it takes that long straight to wherever we're going. I have a tendency to get distracted easily, and it takes me twice as long to get anywhere as it should.
1. 13 or more hours  2. 4  3. I stopped once to get some rest.  
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#12 | 1282 days ago

 I used to drive about 6 hours to and from school in Virginia.  I had it down pat ... one full tank of gas (in my old car) would JUST make it, no stops, lots of music for the ride.
1. 6-7 hours  2. 5  3. It wasn't a long enough of a trip to stop for rest.  
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#13 | 1282 days ago
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My family lives 9 hours south, so I do that trip a few times a year.  When I lived in Omaha, my annual reserve duty was in Dallas/Fort Worth area, and a buddy and I would drive there together.  That was about an 11 hour drive straight through.  
1. 11-12 hours  2. 3  3. It wasn't a long enough of a trip to stop for rest.  
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#14 | 1282 days ago

 Montreal to West Palm Beach (non stop) with some buddies when we were like 19. Driver and wing man teams rotated about every fill up. Never again BTW.
1. 13 or more hours  2. 7 or more  3. This is the greatest. Poll. Ever.  
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#15 | 1282 days ago

 Some buds and I drove 18 hours (I think it was 18) non stop to Vegas...good times...don't know that I could do that anymore...
1. 13 or more hours  2. 7 or more  3. I had to stop more than once to get some sleep/rest.  
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#16 | 1282 days ago

  Four hours in mountainous terrain. I'm talking about Indian road condition here...
1. 4-5 hours  2. 2  3. I stopped once to get some rest.  
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#17 | 1282 days ago

  Ever since I have moved to the East Coast, I have driven more than flown home to Nebraska.  20 Hours one way, just one stop.  And we just about always drove everywhere.  Senior Year, we drove to the Orange Bowl from Nebraska.  I went and looked at the University of Arizona and we drove there.  Drove to Seattle and back from Nebraska to get my Dad during some of his training.  Been to Plattsburgh, NY and back many a time, and have driven to Orlando and back once or twice.  Road trips are nothing for me.
1. 13 or more hours  2. 7 or more  3. I stopped once to get some rest.  
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#18 | 1282 days ago

 Lightweight trips = Las Vegas to Charlotte. Texas to Chicago. Nebraska to California. Nebraska to DC (motorcycle). Michigan to Alaska (motorcycle).

The legendary trip of all time?
Nebraska to Michigan to Missouri to Mississippi to Texas to Nebraska to South Dakota to Chicago to Missouri to Nebraska to Michigan and then back to Nebraska.

The details are too lengthy but let's suffice it to say I won't be doing that again anytime soon.
1. 13 or more hours  2. 7 or more  3. Pshh. Heck yea. I always find the nearest Holiday Inn Express. How do you think I got this smart?  
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#19 | 1282 days ago

 hskrdave wrote:
 Ever since I have moved to the East Coast, I have driven more than flown home to Nebraska.  20 Hours one way, just one stop.  And we just about always drove everywhere.  Senior Year, we drove to the Orange Bowl from Nebraska.  I went and looked at the University of Arizona and we drove there.  Drove to Seattle and back from Nebraska to get my Dad during some of his training.  Been to Plattsburgh, NY and back many a time, and have driven to Orlando and back once or twice.  Road trips are nothing for me.
Does Exxon send you Christmas cards?
1. 13 or more hours  2. 7 or more  3. I stopped once to get some rest.  
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#20 | 1282 days ago

 Not me personally, but our family drove from NYC to Niagara Falls.
1. 9-10 hours  2. 2  3. I had to stop more than once to get some sleep/rest.  
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#21 | 1282 days ago
sc0ttm0 (+)

Raven73 wrote:
Lightweight trips = Las Vegas to Charlotte. Texas to Chicago. Nebraska to California. Nebraska to DC (motorcycle). Michigan to Alaska (motorcycle).

The legendary trip of all time?
Nebraska to Michigan to Missouri to Mississippi to Texas to Nebraska to South Dakota to Chicago to Missouri to Nebraska to Michigan and then back to Nebraska.

The details are too lengthy but let's suffice it to say I won't be doing that again anytime soon.
That's a lot of driving, you're a road trip ninja!
1. 11-12 hours  2. 3  3. It wasn't a long enough of a trip to stop for rest.  
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#22 | 1282 days ago

 family drive 4 years in a row from houston to gold river in chester, nova scotia...2,558 miles (according to google maps)...in a sedan.
1. 13 or more hours  2. 7 or more  3. Pshh. Heck yea. I always find the nearest Holiday Inn Express. How do you think I got this smart?  
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#23 | 1282 days ago

 ms_hippie_queen wrote:
family drive 4 years in a row from houston to gold river in chester, nova scotia...2,558 miles (according to google maps)...in a sedan.
Anyone that drives through, in, or around Texas gets my sympathy.
1. 13 or more hours  2. 7 or more  3. I stopped once to get some rest.  
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#24 | 1282 days ago

 tpowell25 wrote:
Does Exxon send you Christmas cards?
hahahahahahahaha!!!
1. 13 or more hours  2. 7 or more  3. Pshh. Heck yea. I always find the nearest Holiday Inn Express. How do you think I got this smart?  
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#25 | 1282 days ago

 tpowell25 wrote:
Does Exxon send you Christmas cards?
 I'm more of a BP guy, but on trips like that, I'm going low cost.
1. 13 or more hours  2. 7 or more  3. I stopped once to get some rest.  
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#26 | 1282 days ago

 tpowell25 wrote:
Anyone that drives through, in, or around Texas gets my sympathy.
much appreciated! around here "merge" is a personal challenge.
1. 13 or more hours  2. 7 or more  3. Pshh. Heck yea. I always find the nearest Holiday Inn Express. How do you think I got this smart?  
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#27 | 1282 days ago

 We drive a lot, we have driven through Wyoming, Idaho, Colorado, South Dakota, Utah, Kansas, Missouri,  Minnesota, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Illinois, Wisconson, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and parts of Michigan.

Over several different vacations...Not all at once.
1. 13 or more hours  2. 3  3. I drove straight through, but I probably should have stopped somewhere.  
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#28 | 1282 days ago

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1. 11-12 hours  2. 3  3. This is the greatest. Poll. Ever.  
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#29 | 1282 days ago

 From Minneapolis to Atlanta (school), passed out somewhere in Kentucky I think, and made the rest of the trip the next morning. When moving back up to Minnesota, I decided to just FedEx my sh** up and take a plane. A little more expensive, but a hell of a lot easier.
1. 13 or more hours  2. 7 or more  3. Pshh. Heck yea. I always find the nearest Holiday Inn Express. How do you think I got this smart?  
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#30 | 1282 days ago

 Once on a vacation, my family drove around to 14 different states.
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#31 | 1282 days ago
kammi42 (+)

2 1/2 hours and boy its a killer have to stay in a hotel overnight before driving back and wow so many stops during the trip to rest. Ok i live on an island any longer then that and you better be in a boat,  (the hotel and stopping is true thats a very long drive)
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#32 | 1282 days ago
fasterhurry (+)

I'm not very good at sitting 4 long periods I'd rather fly.
1. 6-7 hours  2. I'm clicking this option because I live overseas and Tom doesn't know anything about states or areas over here.  3. Pshh. Heck yea. I always find the nearest Holiday Inn Express. How do you think I got this smart?  
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#33 | 1282 days ago

 I stopped for some.... Rest is that what it is called nowdays?
1. 13 or more hours  2. 7 or more  3. I stopped once to get some rest.  
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#34 | 1282 days ago

 29 Palms, CA (near Palm Springs) with a 20 min stop in Flagstaff, AZ, to drop off one buddy, and 1/2 hour in Oklahoma City, OK, to drop off another,  and than down through Dallas to Houston, TX  <~~~21 Hrs ... haulin a**!!

Did it again from Camp Pendleton, CA to Houston, TX, non-stop when I left the Corps ... that time in19hrs (would've been 18, but I stopped at Taco H*** in San Antonio, because I learned Hurricane Claudette was tearing up I-10 where I was going) ............... last 20 miles I spent sliding from lane to lane in the Uhaul, with my Mustang on a dolly behind me.  LOL
1. 13 or more hours  2. 4  3. I drove straight through, but I probably should have stopped somewhere.  
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#35 | 1282 days ago

 North Carolina to Daytona Beach,  Fl and NC to Talledaga, Al  were my longest car trips.
1. 13 or more hours  2. 4  3. It wasn't a long enough of a trip to stop for rest.  
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#36 | 1282 days ago
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Lobotomy Jones wrote:
In July I drove from Chicago to San Diego to help my parents who are moving out there next summer.

I was going to give you a respect for that, but since you already have 4,295,967,295....im gonna have to save it for someone else.  

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#37 | 1281 days ago
jasonwrites (+)

When I moved from Atlanta to Denver, it was about 1,450 miles. I left on a Friday afternoon, got there early Sunday afternoon. It was July 19-21 and my car had no working AC. Temps in Missouri and Kansas were well into triple digits which means that on Saturday, I stopped at the premature hour of 4 p.m. in Salina, Kansas, because the poor car was overheating, not because I was ready to stop myself. The total time was about 20 hours.

When attending Purdue for grad school, I drove back and forth from Atlanta to Lafayette, Indiana several times. Then my first Labor Day weekend there, we drove from Lafayette to Detroit by way of Toledo, then crossed the bridge and drove across Ontario to Niagara Falls, then back into the U.S. near Buffalo (where an uptight Border Guard threatened to search the vehicle because my front wheel rolled one foot over his stop line), and this time took the Lake Erie route by way of Cleveland back to Lafayette.

When I left Lafayette to come back home to Georgia for good, we (friend and I) went to visit my then-girlfriend who lived near Albany, New York. When we left there we drove east to the Boston area, spending a couple of hours in Salem, then followed I-95 down through Rhode Island, Conneticut, New Jersey, Maryland, D.C., Virginia, North Carolina, and finally South Carolina before picking up I-85 to get to Atlanta.

My wife and I have driven to Las Vegas from Denver and back in a three-day weekend, but that's a tight turnaround, and it can be made in 10 hours if you're driving 100 mph through the Utah desert as she was.

But we've also driven from the Denver suburbs to Durango, Colorado and on to the Four Corners, which approaches eight hours (and crosses an almost 11,000-foot mountain pass) without ever leaving the state.
1. 13 or more hours  2. 7 or more  3. I had to stop more than once to get some sleep/rest.  
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#38 | 1281 days ago
JRSFLAME88 (+)

cuddles127017 wrote:
North Carolina to Daytona Beach,  Fl and NC to Talledaga, Al  were my longest car trips.
Sounds like you were going to some races! Did you get any beads? 
1. 13 or more hours  2. 4  3. I drove straight through, but I probably should have stopped somewhere.  
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#39 | 1281 days ago

 Mr_Rogers wrote:

I was going to give you a respect for that, but since you already have 4,295,967,295....im gonna have to save it for someone else.  

LOL Some kind of FanIQ bug. Jess explained it all to me. I really only have about 10 respects.
1. 13 or more hours  2. 7 or more  3. I had to stop more than once to get some sleep/rest.  
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#40 | 1281 days ago

 In May 07, My wife, son (20), daughter (22), grandson (5), and I drove our RV from St. Louis MO to Key West FL straight through stopping only for gas.  We took turns driving and sleeping.  We left at 7 am and arrived at 5 pm the following day.  The RV could only go 125 miles between fill ups so we stopped alot.
1. 13 or more hours  2. 7 or more  3. I drove straight through, but I probably should have stopped somewhere.  
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#41 | 1281 days ago

 I've driven all the way across the country, from DC to San Francisco. One day did over 800 miles. It was a lot of fun (no, it wasn't).
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#42 | 1280 days ago
sc0ttm0 (+)

Basically all it says is he's taken a few road trips....   There's your readers digest version.  
1. 11-12 hours  2. 3  3. It wasn't a long enough of a trip to stop for rest.  
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