What was your longest drive this week?

"fhrblig" (fhrblig)
05/19/2018 at 16:22 • Filed to: None

This is how far I’ve gone this morning. I’m not even done yet. I stopped to eat lunch in Rifle, and I’m about to head back over the mountains to unload. It’s my second trip to the Western Slope this week.

Where has Oppo traveled to this week?

DISCUSSION (35)

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > fhrblig
05/19/2018 at 16:29

i went to work and back 5 times and did some shopping most days

total distance..... 40 miles tops

Tareim - V8 powered > fhrblig
05/19/2018 at 16:31

I did about 850ish miles over the weekend if that counts? that was to North Wales, then Newcastle and back down to home in the south west

TheRealBicycleBuck > fhrblig
05/19/2018 at 16:37

I’ve been doing 270 miles between Baton Rouge and Houston, twice a week, almost every week since the first week of February. It’s getting old.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > fhrblig
05/19/2018 at 16:40

I did 55 miles today.

Kinja'd!!!

ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability > fhrblig
05/19/2018 at 16:41

Kinja'd!!!

Around 100 miles of awesome tarmac! My phone fucked up or else I would have had video too.

gin-san - shitpost specialist > fhrblig
05/19/2018 at 16:54

I think my furthest trip this week was to go to my parents’ place. It’s about 36km round-trip.

However, the longest duration for a trip this week was simply getting to Costco, where a section of road which was about 2.5km took about half an hour to get through because of one broken traffic light at a major intersection. It was worth it to get bacon for a lifetime (I live alone and this shit comes in four 500g packages (so over 1lb/pack) along with ice cream for weeks.

My parents live further outside of the city so it’s nice to open up the throttle a bit on those empty, open roads. They’re also really new and smooth whereas most streets around here are totally fucked by potholes or poorly placed/maintained/installed sewer grates and manholes.

BIGBLOCK472 - wide and bizarre > fhrblig
05/19/2018 at 17:01

I drive 198 miles one way to Nashville each week for work. Two weeks ago I made the trip twice and then did some driving on the weekend. My total was 936 miles for the week. I usually average 500-600 miles per week total. My Camry is boring but it’s a road warrior.

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > fhrblig
05/19/2018 at 17:05

10 Miles to my cardiologist. I’m supposed to be taking it easy until my stress test.

Powershiftmedia-ResidentDSMGuru > fhrblig
05/19/2018 at 17:07

635 miles. From Trenton NJ to Newark NJ and from Newark to Springfield Ohio. I averaged 5.4 MPG.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > TheRealBicycleBuck
05/19/2018 at 17:38

That is brutal. It is so annoying getting stuck at the bridge into Baton Rouge, and then all the slow people in between the trip.

Spoon II > fhrblig
05/19/2018 at 17:49

6.4 km. Boom!

EL_ULY > TheRealBicycleBuck
05/19/2018 at 17:59

Damn, I cant even

TheRealBicycleBuck > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
05/19/2018 at 18:04

The worst spot now is east of Beaumont. Construction has I-10 down to a single lane. When I got there last week, someone failed to realize everyone was stopping and plowed into the back of someone else. That wreck shut down the freeway. The five hour drive turned into an eight hour drive.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > TheRealBicycleBuck
05/19/2018 at 18:57

That sucks. I’ve only had to drive to Baton Rouge and back once last year and once this year. I’d explode if the drive became that long.

E92M3 > fhrblig
05/19/2018 at 18:58

The longest trip was probably only 40 miles, but I’ve been in the car a total of 27 hrs this week.

fhrblig > TheRealBicycleBuck
05/19/2018 at 21:14

That’s a lot for sure. How long will you have to keep doing that?

fhrblig > gin-san - shitpost specialist
05/19/2018 at 21:15

I wish my parents lived closer. They live about 250 miles away now.

fhrblig > BIGBLOCK472 - wide and bizarre
05/19/2018 at 21:16

Beige cars are made for road trips. My Optima is a nice place to burn the miles up.

fhrblig > Tareim - V8 powered
05/19/2018 at 21:18

Sounds expensive!

fhrblig > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
05/19/2018 at 21:19

Wow, that’s a lot of pedaling.

G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3 > fhrblig
05/19/2018 at 21:22

Flew to the west coast, drove around there, flew back, drove 4 hours back to Toronto.

fhrblig > Powershiftmedia-ResidentDSMGuru
05/19/2018 at 21:22

Tractor trailer, I assume?

I managed 17.6 on the way up with an empty van, and 16.2 on the way back with about 3000 lbs. on board. This was all on I-70 over the Continental divide, so pretty good for a cargo van.

fhrblig > My X-type is too a real Jaguar
05/19/2018 at 21:22

Hope it goes well!

fhrblig > Spoon II
05/19/2018 at 21:23

I think I did about 15 miles in my personal car. I barely drive it anymore.

Spoon II > fhrblig
05/19/2018 at 21:25

Likewise, I work from home so I really don’t need to leave the area that often.

TheRealBicycleBuck > fhrblig
05/19/2018 at 22:09

Well, we’re not sure. We anticipate the program to last at least a couple of years. If my kids weren’t doing so well in such great schools, I’d just relocate my family. My daughter is just a sophomore and her ACT & SAT scores were high enough that she’s receiving recruiting letters from Ivy league schools. Now she’s talking about going into the Yale Biomedical Science program (she was talking about engineering, go figure).

My son qualified for an early start program at the high school he will attend next year. He loves the school and doesn’t want to leave it.

So, unless I can find another job back in Baton Rouge that pays as well as my current job, I’m stuck traveling for a while. At least it comes with hardship pay (10% salary increase), the company takes care of all my expenses, and I get to go home every weekend.

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > fhrblig
05/19/2018 at 22:13

Thanks I got 6 months to get into race shape for 24 hours of Lemons at Road Atlanta. And yes we are running an X-Type.

fhrblig > TheRealBicycleBuck
05/19/2018 at 22:18

At least they’re covering the expenses. Makes it suck a little less.

TheRealBicycleBuck > fhrblig
05/19/2018 at 22:54

Yeah, and with the long-term car rental, I qualify for upgrades. That’s why my current rental is a Challenger. I’m also now a Platinum member with my hotel - access to exclusive floors, special vacation offers, free nights... the perks for frequent travelers are nice.

Powershiftmedia-ResidentDSMGuru > fhrblig
05/19/2018 at 23:08

The continental divide was one of the prettiest sights I’ve ever personally seen. So gorgeous out there. Yeah I’m regional dedicated in my good ole trusty Freightliner.

Tareim - V8 powered > fhrblig
05/20/2018 at 04:11

it was, but totally worth it, been awhile since I had such a good weekend as that

xsnowpig > fhrblig
05/20/2018 at 08:51

did you make it to the little car show in Rifle Saturday? long drive from the Front Range for that...

B/Xmrrmvr > fhrblig
05/20/2018 at 10:24

Stuck in NYC this week, but went to Colorado last week. Drove between Grand Junction and Boulder 3 times in a rental Nissan Rogue. The CVT was awful but at the very least, it was fun to go WOT up a slope and see it not really do anything.

fhrblig > B/Xmrrmvr
05/20/2018 at 10:43

That would not be my first choice to go over the bump for sure. The van does well most of the time, but it definitely was breathing heavy on the way back with 3000 lbs on board.

fhrblig > xsnowpig
05/20/2018 at 10:44

Aww,I wish I’d known about it. I was working though, so I didn’t really have time to stop anyway.