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I live in England and when I was in America we were sayign that we were going to Cornwall to a park attendant in Orlando and when we said it's an 8 hour journey she was saying, 'oh so it's not that bad'. I was in shock lol. I then realsied that you are in a bigger counrty and must drive for hours and hours so...
Drove from Caribou, ME to San Diego, CA once. Just under 3400 miles and around 48 hours driving time if I recall correctly. For a one day drive it was from Battle Creek, MI to Biloxi, MS which is just over 1000 miles and about 13 hours driving time. (of course both of these trips are just counting one way, and I still had to go back to where I started at the end of the trip.)
Longest non stop trip was from Florida to New York for a wedding, 19 hours each way. Alternated the driving with my SO, and had a cozy spot in the back of the van for naps.
A childhood vacation from Michigan to California, 40 hours drive time each way. The trip actually took about a week to get there and another week coming back because we stopped at all sorts of neat places along the way. The Grand Canyon, Pikes Peak, Four Corners, Death Valley, and every little kitschy tourist trap we came across. Tons of fun.
About 20 years ago, DH and I made a road trip from Midland, Texas to Columbia, South Carolina non-stop. It was about 1,320 miles and took us about about 22 1/2 hours. Originally, we had planned on stopping half way, for the night. However, it was in the middle of the summer, I was 5 months pregnant and our car's a/c started acting up, so we thought it would be best if we just drove straight through, during the cool night, rather than trying to do it during the heat of the day and have the a/c go out on us. The thought of Alabama in July with no a/c was more than I could handle.
As a kid we did a road trip that included leaving from Dallas, going to Denver, Yellowstone and Jackson Hole, Las Vegas, LA and Disneyland, the Grand Canyon and back to Dallas in a week. I don't know how far it was, but it was not fun. We were in such a hurry that we couldn't spend the time to see Old Faithful erupt, spent about 5 hours in Disneyland, spent about 15 minutes in a small museum and overlook at the Grand Canyon. To my dad, it was good enough. He could tick off the boxes on his family "to do" check list.
There's a big difference between driving in the US on motorways and driving in places like, say, Scotland. Much of it is 2 lane winding roads and difficulty overtaking due to all the curves. So we don't say distance here, we say how much time.
My longest trip was a 9,000 mile trip across the country, from New Hampshire to Seattle to Los Angeles and back. This was over 3 weeks.
I believe the longest single day of driving on the trip was from Portland, OR to Prairie Creek Redwood State Park, CA along the Pacific Coast; that took about 12 hours of driving I think. It's around 450 miles.
I had a couple weeks leave in San Diego and a friend and I left late one afternoon to drive to see my folks in Florida (by way of Minneapolis) and then return to San Diego. We drove straight through the first night and pulled into the Snowbird ski resort in Utah (770 miles) around 8 am the next day. We spent the day skiing and then got back in the car to put a few more miles on and ended up driving until we hit Grand Junction (320 miles). Only realized later that we took the long way around and should have just kept driving on I80 through southern Wyoming.
My longest non-stop drive was from Toronto to NJ---8 hours. I'm driving from NJ to Iowa---16 hours---in August but we'll be stopping along the way.
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