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For me it is slightly over 1000 miles, from Blairsville, PA to Milton, FL(Would’ve been slightly less than 1000, but got very lost). I got to drive through a snow and ice storm, which was fun.
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A little north of Atlanta to a little east of Fort Worth. 13 hours of driving including stops.
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Hamar, Norway to Stuttgart,Germany. 1150 miles or so, 17 hours if you don’t include breaks, 18 hours including breaks. Probably should not have done that trip in one go though.
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I didn't drive it, but in highschool I went on a bus trip from Iowa to Florida. 27 hours straight.
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I drove from Jamestown SD to Spokane in a single strech. Fun day though.
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That sounds terrible.
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Seattle - Santa Barbara for Coachella back in 2006 on a 2005 GSX-R 750. Started at 5AM, made it to my destination at 11:30PM. It finally started to rain for the first time on the trip with 30 minutes to go.
1,120 miles.
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Ha! I’m not far from Blairsville. About an hour and a half or so. Been there a few times.
Farthest I’ve driven in one day is probably to North Carolina. Only about 500 miles, but it’s still an 8+ hour drive.
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It may sound kinda wimpy, but to me it was from Irvine, CA, to Davis, CA. 7 hours and ~460 miles.
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Mine was not thought out at all, but I didn’t really get fatigued until about 30 minute til home, so I just played freeze out to stay awake.
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That sounds like an awful, boring drive.
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I was at WyoWreck for a few months, but left due to health reasons. Kind of glad I did now.
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Seattle to Salt Lake City in one day. About 900 miles.
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Aren’t you like 15-16 though, because that’s not bad at that age.
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Sounds like a scenic drive.
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It was until you get into ID and Wester UT. Then it’s just rocks and sage brush. Plus I was in a 4 cylinder Toyota SR5 loaded down with all my stuff for college so it took like 12 hours.
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It's not great. Pretty much just sit on I-20 the whole way.
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Sounds better than travelling anywhere on I10 in Florida, because other than crossing over a few murky bays, it’s nothing but pine trees. I’ll take having to rev out my 4Runner to climb a hill any day.
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Well this is where it becomes awkward. I’m 14 so I can’t drive…I’m speaking from a passenger perspective.
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Oh and Jamestown is totally north dakota.
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Ah, to me that’s much worse. I much prefer driving long distances than riding.
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I once made if from just west of Nanaimo, BC to Saskatoon, SK in 27 hours, so a little more than a day. That’s including the ferry crossing and a bunch of stops that had to happen because I was travelling with family (including my one-year-old nephew) who insisted on stopping for decent sit-down meals and some baby sorts of things. That’s just over 1000 miles. Google says it should take 19 hours straight through, so allowing an extra eight hours for like, four two-hour meals? Seems reasonable.
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Mineral Point, Wisc. to Chattanooga, Tenn. Mileage is about 770; Google Maps estimates the driving time at about 11 1/2 hours.
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It took me a little over 16 hours to do that distance, and that was stopping every 100 or so miles to top off on fuel(my odo/trip meter were broken, so I was as trusting with my fuel gauge) and once to eat.
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Probably about 3 hours. I really don’t travel much.
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My trip brought me straight through Chattanooga, but it was at night.
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I only have traveled that far due to moving away from family, so it’s not like it was an awesome roadtrip.
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I had a 4runner like yours. I still miss that rig sometimes.
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I want to do an awesome road trip.
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I’d say it’s worth visiting in the daytime if you ever get the chance.
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Ticonderoga NY to Franklin (Near Oneonta) and than back to Long Island. Probably about 380 miles.
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Oh, so do I. Hopefully someday I can go cross country.
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While I plan on getting something more effecient to daily, I have no plans to get rid of mine.
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Oh I have been, I used to live much closer to it.
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The above trip resulted in hitting the mountains in the dark and it was snowing, so some concessions were made for safety. Don’t know if the Discovery reality show Highway thru Hell ever aired in the US, but if you’ve seen it, that’s the highway I was on.
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I’ve done 20+ hours more times than I can remember. I’ve done 30+ a few times just the last year. I think the longest miles wise was Detroit to Riverside, which was about 2,300 miles. Got there at midnight, helped wrench on a COE, slept for one hour, then drove a ‘59 Pontiac Safari wagon to las vegas. I’ve done Detroit to Vegas or the other way around a couple times. Then as part of this I went NOLA to San Diego in one shot which was made worse by 4hrs of Houston traffic.
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Not a planned trip for me either, I just wanted to have a vacation and ended up in Stuttgart :P
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Your trips make me very envious, especially the one in the Scat Pack.
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About 1100 miles over the course of 20 hours .
I left Michigan, drove through Ohio, and into Pennsylvania to pick up some crap. It was a paid solo errand, and I wanted to get it all done at once. I stopped only for gas, restroom, or food to-go. I spent maybe 20-30 minutes loading in Pennsylvania, then immediately returned to Michigan.
During the trip, I felt no ill effects until the trip was nearly over. After driving about 18.5 hours, I looked at my hands, which were steering, but they seemed to be doing it automatically. I was awake, I was aware, and yet, it felt like I wasn’t driving. I was watching someone’s hands steer the Tundra, holding to the center of the lane just fine. Of course they were mine, but the best way I can describe it is to say it’s like my eyes were connected to my hands, without the brain being between them. Autopilot.
An hour or so later, with about 19.5 hours of driving behind me, I was nearing the end of my trip. Only then did I encounter “highway hypnosis”, suddenly not remembering the last 3 (freeway) miles. I returned home and the trip ended without incident.
Ugh. Twenty hours. Not doing that again.
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Syracuse, NY to Myrtle Beach, SC 850 miles, 16 hours.
Actually on the return trip now, stuck on I95 in some BS traffic in VA or NC.
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I went through a snow and ice storm in WV and I actually had to stop and cut the ice off of the grill so the radiator would get air.
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You were only a couple of hours from me!
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My 1000+ miles only took me 16.5 hours, but I barely remember the last 30 or so miles. It could be that it is nothing memorable on that 30 miles, but I had to play freeze out to stay awake.
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Cleveland to NYC, though me and my parents take turns driving. It’s 450ish miles
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I’ve owned quite a few Toyota’s and have found that they are generally bulletproof.
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Salt lake to just outside of chicago
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1700 km from Halifax to central Onatrio. depends on weather and traffic can be done between 15 and 17 hours. Done this drive 6 times now, 3 times without stopping.
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I did this beast in 1 day, took about 16.5 hours from start to finish. Approximately 920 miles, 3 tanks of petrol, and 3 cans of Redbull. Eurotunnel was timed to perfection, just enough time to stop and have tea, and then through and 3.5 hours home.
The mighty Focus handled it like a dream,
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Probably was for the drivers with 70 crazed high schoolers on board.
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Brooklyn, NY to an outlet in Central Valley, NY and back home, which was about 120-ish miles and 3 hours in total. Not bad for an 18 year old with a permit. Traffic in the city was the worst part.
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1,218 from Treasure Island in Las Vegas back to my apartment (at the time) in Plano, Texas. 20 something hours solo.
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Treas…
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Even the 3.slow is pretty dead reliable with the exception of replacing head gaskets.
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Wilmington, Ohio to Savannah, Georgia. 16 hours.
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Agreed. Pretty easy job though.
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Not if you don’t have a dolley or the tools.
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That’s right! Forgot you moved to SC. It was a fairly busy week anyway. At least the weather was nice for the most part. Not too humid either.
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It’s cooled down a bit over the past couple of weeks, so it’s been pretty nice. It would be great weather to use the pool, but I can’t.
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Huntington, WV to Erie, PA, to Charleston, WV to Columbia, SC in 18 hours. 1,100 miles total in my ‘97 Suabru Legacy GT wagon.
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We had the ocean right there so I was in it almost every day. I like coming here but it’s certainly not as often as I’d like. Grandparents come each May but I’m stuck in school while they’re down here.
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I bet you wish you were here in February and March.
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With a friend — Almost exactly 1800 miles in almost exactly 24 hours. Stopped only for gas and gas-station junk food. Went from Lexington, KY to Chandler, AZ. https://goo.gl/maps/tXEBX
By myself — About 1060 miles in about 19 hours. Drove from Apache Junction, AZ to Dallas, TX in one go. Continued the next day to Jackson, MS. Could have probably made it all the way to Jackson in one stretch, but I went the long route through Amarillo (I can’t drive cross country, and NOT stop at the Big Texan!), and wound up sucking up water in Dallas, frying my MAF and leaving me broken down until morning.
https://goo.gl/maps/PCAEQ
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For whatever reason, I read that as Jamestown,
South Carolina
. I was about to say, that’s seriously impressive, bordering on impossible, to drive that in one day!
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Water crossing is fun isn’t it!
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Yeah, that would have been borderline suicidal. As it was I was done.
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Apparently, in Dallas, the interstate becomes a river when it floods! Police were actually blocking the on-ramps, not letting anyone else on. I could barely see out my windshield. I was actually doing a decent job, careful on the throttle, and staying in the highest lane — until a lifted bro truck flew past me on the right, sending a tidal wave over my car. All the electrics started to freak, lost power immediately, and the car never ran right afterwards.
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I’ve always wanted to head up that way though — unfortunately haven’t gotten to explore the north nearly as much as I’ve wanted to. I’ve been to South Dakota, but haven’t hit Montana, Idaho, or Washington.
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Calgary to Farmington, UT - ~1,400 km.
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Woods Hole, Ma, to North Conway, NH. About 220 miles, but it was in a Geo Metro so it felt more like 600.
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Well, I envy your fuel usage. I used nearly 90 gallons of fuel in around 1015 miles.
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Could’ve been 1400 miles.
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Eh?
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Houston, TX to Harrisonbug, VA. 1,278 miles, ~24 hours. That was back in 1989 when speed limits were lower, and I left at about 10 o’clock at night and arrived the following night. I was in grad school in Houston, my fiancée was still in school in VA.
This past summer, though, I drove from Mammoth Cave, KY to Austin, TX. 946 miles, 16 hours. And that was in a van with my wife and three boys. That was the last day of a 3717 mile driving vacation that I drove every mile of. Last November, we drove from Crossville, TN to Austin, which was slightly longer (974) but my wife shared the driving.
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Sounds a bit like the bus rides we took when I was in the pep band in college and had to attend the basketball tournaments. Our band was small, really a jazz band (about 15 players). The cheerleaders had the back of the bus with their pom-poms and Walkmans, we had the front of the bus with our huge fish coller full of beer, liquor and other, shall we say, combustibles. Hell of a trip. No idea if we won the game or not. 10/10. Would do again.
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North Dakota was the best sight seeing of the trip honestly.
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Having made the similar drive, I don’t envy you. I’ve driven the vertical length of AL and almost went into a coma. However, it’s only slightly worse than driving across AR on I-40/30.
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That’s why I drive on all our big family vacations. I hate sitting in the passenger seat.
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It could’ve been further.
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When I was moving out of my college dorm in Boston MA, my mom, dad, and I drove to St Louis MO in one go. That’s in the ballpark of 1200 miles. Took about 20.5 hours in total with fuel ups, food, and light traffic in NY. Legitimately wasn’t too bad, but I’d never do it again. We had a giant moving van, and we took turns driving, navigating, and sleeping on an easily accessible couch in the back.
TheOnelectronic and I have also driven from St Louis MO to Santa Fe NM a few times. Very pretty drive, and interesting to see the transition to and from desert. That one was closer to 1000 miles I think.
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I did a trip like that in college to an away bball game about 3 hrs away. Vodka and lemonade started at about 9am. I was in bed by 830 that night.
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1586 miles, 27 hours, Austin Tx to Columbiana Al and back. Stopped for 10 minutes in Alabama to pick someone up, a two safety nap somewhere in Louisiana on the way back.
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Myrtle Beach to NoVa. 8 hours of driving, I95 is pretty boring to drive on for that long.
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Drove from Sterling, Colorado to Melvindale, Michigan, 1136 miles non-stop (except for fuel). When I arrived I was a physical wreck, took me two days to recover.
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It was a 3-speed auto, so 34 mpg tops.
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Edit, Dammit kinja. This was supposed to be to the OP
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Just about 1000. Overnight from Michigan to South Carolina. The first time we did this trip overnight (we’ve done it a few times now) we got there to find out the brake caliper was locked up on the Jeep Liberty we had at the time....so I went straight to my dad’s shop and worked for like 4 hours. Thought I was gonna die lol.
We’ve done it quite a few times, we always go straightthrough, door to door its 992 miles. With stopping for food, gas, and bathrooms, I’m going to guess over 1000
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Better than 12.
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I want to do it in a classic Porsche Turbo. Or maybe a Targa.
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Fun!
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It's pretty draining.
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There are too many parts of America that you can’t see in a sports car.
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In all honesty, I want to drive it in an old FJ40 as well.
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Lincoln, Nebraska to Dearborn, Michigan with a trailer and no driver changes
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New Haven, CT to Tampa, FL. About 1,300 miles and 20 hours. Many 5 Hour Energies were consumed, and at the end I wound up sleeping in a chair in the hotel lobby for about four hours before check-in time.
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I’m thinking FJZ80. Capable, reliable, comfortable, and will do highway speeds.
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Also, using a three-driver rotation I’ve non-stopped from Manhattan to Prescott, Arizona (~2,600 miles, 37 hours) and Providence, Rhode Island to Portland, Oregon. During the first of those trips I did the shift from Morrilton, AR to Winslow, AZ. 1,100 miles and 17 hours. Driving a sketchy former church van towing a rally car.
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The first one would be fun as one week trip or longer.
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Oh absolutely. New Mexico and Arizona were gorgeous, and we paralleled Route 66 for four states, which was pretty awesome. Would’ve loved to take it slower, but race car.
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That’s my DD advantage, I can’t rush things. Which is also a curse.
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I want to go to Moab sometime too.
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If we could rush things in this then anyone can rush things.
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This trip taught me that a Kia Cadenza is a great road trip car exempt for one thing. The front seats kill your back. The second time I did this trip I did it in my Altima and it was way more comfortable.