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I recently met up with a friend from college and we were reminiscing (as mid/late 20s do when we dream of the freedom of college again) about stupid college stuff. My friend interned out in San Diego the summer before his senior year and stopped in Vegas on the way back. Then, on a solo trip he left Vegas and drove straight through until Geneva, NY only to arrive 41 hours later. He only stopped for fuel, coffee and sugar. He said he didn't remember much of it now but can remember after passing through some mid-america state he thought he was driving down hill the rest of the way.

We figure there are very few people out there that have gone this long in one drive, but I think OOT would be a good place to start. Although, this thread was ironic to find today. The isolation bit is similar, car vs. apt.

Any other long hauls out there?

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your friend is an idiot for endangering his life, and the lives of everyone else on the road. Kudos.

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Thanks, moral barometer!

Longest was an 11 hour drive to Florida, pretty easy stuff.

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Nothing extremely impressive here. I drove from Winston-Salem, NC to College Park, MD alone, only stopping for gas/bathroom once, a couple years ago.

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your friend is an idiot for endangering his life, and the lives of everyone else on the road. Kudos.

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I would agree, I said the same thing when we were talking about the story. My words were "You must have been dagerous out there." Yeah, it was stupid and he was 21 years old. You've never done anything in your life that endangered others/yourself that you thought you shouldn't? I regret tons of stuff, which is why they call it growing up. These things also make good stories and are good reminders that as you get older there are people out there that are doing this type of thing today.

I also never said, this guy loves to drive really tired all the time and risk everyones life. He's probably one of the few people I know that has never driven drunk, I bet even you have done that. Although, it was just around the corner...right?

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your friend is an idiot for endangering his life, and the lives of everyone else on the road. Kudos.

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In other news, water is wet, and the sky is blue.

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i did 600 miles once without stopping for anything, but my best overall is 13 hours

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i did 600 miles once without stopping for anything, but my best overall is 13 hours

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Damn, 600 miles on one tank of gas is real good.

Nice avatar, I used to watch it years ago. Do they even have the show on anymore? It was so retarded, but I couldn't pull myself away.

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I've done lots of stupid stuff that should of killed at least one person I know, if not myself (I think the best example is super modified sleding: tie a snow sled to a car and ride behind it, I hold the world record at 55mph in a suburban neighborhood) However driving for 41 hours straight is just retarded, and no I have been driving my car while drunk.

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The longest I ever drove was about 17 hours from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Ottawa, Ontario. It shouldn't have taken that long but I decided to drive back by going through Maine, Vermont, NY, etc... There was construction the entire way and I ended up sitting in traffic every time I passed through a small town. By the time I got to Ottawa I was halucinating.

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I've done 18 hours straight, on my 21st birthday but without having gotten drunk the night before. Boone NC to Hawley Ma- it would have been shorter, but he last 2-3 hours i was stopping every 15 mins to piss.

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I've done lots of stupid stuff that should of killed at least one person I know, if not myself (I think the best example is super modified sleding: tie a snow sled to a car and ride behind it

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We used to do that too. I never really thought about how dangerous it was. Then again, I also doubt we obtained the speeds you did.

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1000 miles between Worcester, MA and W. Lafayette, IN. The first time I did it was in late August (construction season) and it took 20 hours. I soon learned to leave around dinner time, drive all night, and arrive midmorning.

It was so much more tolerable solo. I drove one guy to Hartford once. Worst part of that was picking him up on the way back.

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I played baseball with a guy from Idaho for two summers in a row. Both at the beginning and end of each summer he'd drive 27 hours straight from Boise to Waterloo or vice versa.

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Atlanta GA to Farmington NM straight through...map quest says its 1600 or so miles. It lies. Shaved about 3 hours off their trip time by taking a few different roads.

Took me 25 hours. I was hopped up on cocaine, meth, and some whippets though, the whole trip.

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My dad and I did 29 straight. Oddly enough, it was also on my return trip from an internship in San Diego with a stop in Vegas. I drove to Vegas on my own, stayed for a couple days, and flew my dad in to make the drive back home to northern WI with me. He had recently been laid off and was looking for a job. We left on a tuesday afternoon and later that night, my mom called us on my cell to tell my dad that he had a job interview on that thursday. All I remember is we got to Denver at about 2am and decided we didn't want to get a hotel room just to sleep for like 4 hours and then leave again, so we stopped for caffeine and hit the road. It was 29 hours straight through from Vegas to my parents' house in WI. He ended up getting the job he interviewed for the next morning.

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I have driven to and from Boston to St. Louis straight through several times. I don't remember exactly, but I think it's 18-20 hours or so. I don't remember thinking it was at all dangerous, I was in college and caffeine and nicotine did the trick just fine.

I also drove straight from Washington, DC to Panama City, FL for spring break. I left around 9PM and drove all night, fueled by ephedrine. THAT I recall as being dangerous for sure.

Knowing that the above was absolutely my limit in the best of my days, I think what your friend did was definitely dangerous.

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A buddy and I drove a U-haul with a car trailer 26 straight hours from Florida to Ohio. Going through the mountain passes at 3AM was an adventure.

My longest solo is 11 hours.

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I drove alone for about 16 hours from Wichita to a town by Lansing, MI. When I drove back alone the next week, I was running on about 3 hours of sleep. Nothing too impressive, but it's not something I plan on doing again soon.

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Oh yeah, my longest solo is about 14 hours, with several 10-12 hour trips. These long drives don't really bother me and I suspect I could actually go a while longer than 14, provided I'm not unusually tired or something before I even leave. I'm also not afraid to either stop or ask someone else to drive if I'm not up to it part way through the trip, though.

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I've done 18 hours straight, on my 21st birthday but without having gotten drunk the night before. Boone NC to Hawley Ma- it would have been shorter, but he last 2-3 hours i was stopping every 15 mins to piss.

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My longest is Greenville NC to Birmingham, AL. Between 11-12 hours depending on number of bathroom breaks. I do that trip several times a year.

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Nice avatar, I used to watch it years ago. Do they even have the show on anymore? It was so retarded, but I couldn't pull myself away.

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yeah, i think they're in the last season, but you can buy it on dvd, of course.

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Moved my father-in-laws stuff in a 24' Uhaul with a 12' trailer on the back from Albuquerque, NM to north of Milwaukee, WI in 26 or so hours if I remember right. I was just thankful I got reimbursed for the gas. I remember driving through TX and OK in the middle of the night hearing about tornado warnings on the radio in a bunch of different counties, wondering if I was driving through any of them. White knucking it driving through Albuquerque wondering how wide the thing was, afraid to switch lanes, not knowing if the trailer cleared the car in the next lane etc. By the time I was going through Milwaukee, I'd put on the blinker, count to 5 and just start moving into the next lane. I think that'll be my longest.

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Nice avatar, I used to watch it years ago. Do they even have the show on anymore? It was so retarded, but I couldn't pull myself away.

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yeah, i think they're in the last season, but you can buy it on dvd, of course.

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The Red Green show was awesome. I haven't seen it in a few years, though. It really went downhill once it got 'big', though, and you could tell they all of a sudden had a bigger budget.

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Dude, I thought this post was about golf. I rock at Tiger Woods '06.

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Start: Notre Dame (indiana)

stop: Woods Hole (Mass)

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Potsdam, NY to Tampa Fl. Two days later Tampa Fl to Potsdam, NY.

Orange

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I refuse to drive more than 5 hours for any reason at all. However, since I live in Los Angeles, this gets me to Vegas, San Francisco and Mammoth Mountain. Works out pretty well if you ask me.

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I also drove straight from Washington, DC to Panama City, FL for spring break. I left around 9PM and drove all night, fueled by ephedrine. THAT I recall as being dangerous for sure.

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I did Geneva, NY to Panama City Beach for Spring Break one year, too. Although, I did it with three others and we made stops along the way down there. The way back we did it straight through in 18 hours. We did driving shifts though, the hardest part was not killing someone in the car with you after a week of hanging out and then being in a car 18 hours with them.

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I drove from Whidbey Island, Washington to San Diego. Took me about 20-21 hours. I also did the return leg in one shot. However the return leg was after a week of survival training where I was food and sleep deprived. I got one night of sleep and headed back up. The hallucinations started about the time I crossed over the Washington border and I am frankly amazed that I lived through that return trip.

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St louis to vegas. about 1600 miles.
stopped somewhere in new mexico to catch a 2 hour nap.
Winter break of my senior year of college.
I really wanted to play some p*k*r.

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Couple buddies and I went to the US Open this past summer. Started in Des Moines, went down to Wichita to pick up a friend, and then over to North Carolina. Lots and lots of great memories from that trip.

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My dad, who was born in 1939, recently went from oklahoma to eastern PA in one shot. He flew to NM to buy a car, stopped one night in OK then said fug it and finished the trip the very next day. He must have liked the car.

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Start: Fort Lauderdale, FL
End: Alexandria, LA

sleep

Start: Alexandria, LA
End: Denver, CO

Both trips were miserable.

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Cleveland to Lake Tahoe. My friend and I switched off driving though, and we stopped to watch the Miami v. Ohio State national championship game at a bar.

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I once drove from Austin Texas to just outside Chicago Illinois non-stop. I finally pulled over and checked into a hotel to sleep, after dozing at the wheel and spinning out the car. Stupid days.

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Tucson to west-central Illinois, apporx. 1700 miles, 26 hours, 4 quick stops for gas. I will never do something that stupid again (I hope).

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Fort Worth to Phoenix.

It was about 16 hours, not torture, but I only stopped for gas. No food, no bathroom.

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21 hours. Orlando, FL to Portland, ME. I intended to stop somewhere and sleep, but I just never felt like it. I was young and driving long distances was no big deal. Not anymore. Anything over 5 hours and I'm flying.