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YOUR LONGEST ROAD TRIP?

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Old 10-27-2009, 04:43 PM
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The Best My buddy Tom and I did was From 45 North of Kansas City, Mo. to Causamel, Mexico. Just to say we flew a R/C Glider over the Ocean. Miles????? Not sure, BUT..... Man it was GREAT!!!
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My Dad myself and older brother had a small fleet of Trucks in the mid 70's the longest trip I made (non stop) SOLO was from Oxnard California to Ellsworth Maine reload with seafood and back to Rapid City S.D. slept for more than 28 hrs. after getting home.
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Old 10-27-2009, 05:53 PM
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THANKS for the input fellas

thats some crazy high milage some of you lads have done
Old 10-27-2009, 06:36 PM
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Haven't taken a long road trip in a while, the longest one I took was to Sun Valley in Idaho with my parents when I was around 15. The longest road trip I've taken recently where I drove was down to Socal.
Old 10-27-2009, 07:04 PM
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Sacramento CA to Independence VA  in toyota pickup with overload spings loaded with woodworking tools. Then Sacramento CA to Independence VA in SUV with family + 1 dog and 2 cats. Then Sacramento CA to Independence VA in 23 Foot Moving van. Too many miles, Too many miles.

I do love this hobby, I can't wait until i finish using the woodworking tools on the house and can start building my p-38.
Old 10-27-2009, 07:39 PM
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I drove from Farmington Hills, MI to Tempe AZ, and back for a total of around 4970 miles
Old 10-27-2009, 08:08 PM
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Longest road trip was about 2500 miles there and back. Starting here in Dallas, and round about eventually finding our way to Milwaukee, WI. Same thing back.
Old 10-27-2009, 09:11 PM
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This past 4th of July we (3 couples) went from Atlanta to Fort Lauderdale to Key West to Orlando to Crystal Springs to Atlanta in a 34' motor home pulling 3 Harleys - over 1700 miles in all. What an excellent vacation that was, tool'n around the keys on Harleys in perfect whether, awesome. The only bad thing was the A/C went out in the motor home and it's hot in Florida in July. We had lots of cold beer though so all was good.

Other trips I've done are:
Minneapolis to Atlanta
Atlanta to Shreveport
Atlanta to Norfolk, VA
and we, as a family, used to do Atlanta to Indianapolis several times a year.
Old 10-27-2009, 10:16 PM
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Hmmm..... I'm still in high school and the single longest trip I've ever taken is 358mi....... Inadequacy....[]
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I've driven back and forth from my home town a little outside Reno Nv to my wifes home town near Seattle WA numerous times to visit family. It's about 1000 miles and I always drive it straight through. One time though in an emergency in the middle of winter I left WA at about 9PM (had been up since 6AM) and drove straight though in snow only stopping for gas and got to my parents house in NV at about 9pm the next night. That trip sucked.
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Longest solo road trip in one day? Houston to El Paso, Texas, 890 miles.
Old 10-28-2009, 04:38 AM
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kinda a road trip, the whole family did a round australia, from yinnar south vic, first to melb and surouding areas, up to canbera, inland to i don't know how many small town, back to the coast to sydney, to bisbane up to townsville and then to cairns, darwin, down to ularu, back up to broom, down to perth adilade and back to vic, to list everywhere we went would be impossible, but in total 46'500 km (29'000 miles) in 9 weeks.
Old 10-28-2009, 05:14 AM
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We went from Huntsville, Alabama all the way through the southern most states to California. From there, we drove to Bellington, Washington and took the ferry to Alaska and drove around there for awhile. Went to the Arctic Cirle in summer.... not so arctic. Finally, we came back on the AlCan highway through Canada down through the Dakotas and back to Alabama. Right around 10,000 miles. !0-14 hour days of straight driving makes you not want to get in a car again!
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ORIGINAL: Anomie

From the SF Bay Area to Detroit and back, about 2300 miles each way. I routinely drive to and from Vegas on a long weekend and that is close to 1200 miles round trip.

When I was 10 my parents drove us to Florida and back over a 3 week period during summer. That's roughly 5900 round trip, but I'd swear it was a million miles to get home [:'(]
Hey, I did South Fl, to LA! took my family 2 and a half days.
Old 10-28-2009, 09:13 AM
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the longest journey i have seen anybody doing around ireland was a costal route all around the country consisting of over 1200 miles on crap roads lol...
Old 10-28-2009, 09:36 AM
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From Calgary, Alberta to Markham, Ontario. The trip was about 3800 kms after getting lost in and around Chicago a few times.
Old 10-28-2009, 10:10 AM
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holy mother of........man that sounds like a long journey

chigao and towns like those must be unreal to drive through are they???
Old 10-28-2009, 10:48 AM
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You need to come to the USA. Take Limerick and multiply it by a hundred. There you got Chicago. Limerick's population around 100,000, Chicago's metropolitan population around 10,000,000. Oh, and replace the small buildings with skyscrapers, then multiply that by 100. There's nothing like it and driving around Chicago is madness!!! You learn real quick, it don't matter how well you drive, it matters how well you can dodge.
Old 10-28-2009, 03:22 PM
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So basically... Chicago is like a smaller London but with a lot more skyscrapers. At least you have some wide roads there, we still have to drive on old Roman roads lol
Old 10-28-2009, 03:31 PM
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Longest road trip would be from Bridgewater, NJ (Central Jersey) to Clive, IA (and then to Ames, IA). We did it in more than one day though
Old 10-28-2009, 03:51 PM
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mmm i can imagine the size of your citys lads HUGE i dont know how you find your way around them
Old 10-29-2009, 12:37 PM
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We we get lost, we start by making small circles and keep getting bigger till we find what we're looking for. Or until we get car-jacked.
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Longest trip yet, Got ya all beat! Being on highway 80 in Wyoming with stomach flu and the nearest bathroom is over a hundred miles away, Believe me that is longest trip you will ever take!
Old 10-30-2009, 06:38 PM
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from Santee California to Seal Beach California.  ruffly 100 miles.  and i did it on a skateboard.  took me almost 18 hours.
Old 10-31-2009, 01:48 AM
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i was the passenger in the back seat for a trip from california to tennessee. total round trip came out to be like 6000 miles

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