700 miles from East TN to New Orleans in April 2017. Took us about 12 hours including stops for gas/food/restroom.
Even though I’ve been on many 14-17 hour flights … don’t like more than about 6 hours of driving in a day …I’m talking no hotel to sleep/rest/let the car rest. I guess you could include someone taking the wheel for you for a while. But no rest for that vehicle aside from stopping for gas or bathroom break.
Mine was New Hampshire to Baltimore. I guess 7 hours? Maybe 500 miles?
I‘ve done a drive to Niagara Falls. That was probably six hours but it was just so much easier than Baltimore. No major cities, smooth, flat, peaceful. Baltimore was a nightmare...NY, Jersey, George Washington Bridge, tolls and tolls and tolls. I actually pulled off the highway on the Jersey turnpike to get gas - because I didn’t want to wait in line at the stations on the turnpike - that was a HUGE mistake...think I drove 40 miles trying to find a station. Lol. Seriously.
And I drove to Philly in a north easter. That was horrible. Got to the hotel and I was shaking. So out if it I left my wallet at the reception desk.
Always thought I’d do a cross country drive. Never have. Figured I’d do the old...“Florida drive”. Haven’t done that either.
The furthest I've ever driven is from the Ontario border south of Ottawa (via somewhere in New York state where the road sign said New York city this way) to Gary Indiana, in a 1978 Ford Fiesta. We were broke in those days so we didn't have a road map and avoided toll roads, so I'm not exactly sure where we went. We were young and hoped to camp along the way but angry looking clouds kept piling up and there were regular tornado warnings on the radio so we just kept going. By the time we got to Gary I was too tired to go any further. It was really late at night and we just stopped at the next motel. In the morning we found we were in a pretty rough area (barbed wire along the top of the chain link fence around the motel). That was about 18 - 19 hours of continuous driving with only bathroom breaks and stops for gas. That was quite a memorable drive!I’m talking no hotel to sleep/rest/let the car rest. I guess you could include someone taking the wheel for you for a while. But no rest for that vehicle aside from stopping for gas or bathroom break.
Mine was New Hampshire to Baltimore. I guess 7 hours? Maybe 500 miles?
I‘ve done a drive to Niagara Falls. That was probably six hours but it was just so much easier than Baltimore. No major cities, smooth, flat, peaceful. Baltimore was a nightmare...NY, Jersey, George Washington Bridge, tolls and tolls and tolls. I actually pulled off the highway on the Jersey turnpike to get gas - because I didn’t want to wait in line at the stations on the turnpike - that was a HUGE mistake...think I drove 40 miles trying to find a station. Lol. Seriously.
And I drove to Philly in a north easter. That was horrible. Got to the hotel and I was shaking. So out if it I left my wallet at the reception desk.
Always thought I’d do a cross country drive. Never have. Figured I’d do the old...“Florida drive”. Haven’t done that either.