When I was a traveling nurse I drove back and forth from Northern Wisconsin to Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania and back again. In less than a month about three weeks I put on over three thousand miles. Every three thousand miles an oil change. I believe in a matter of 3 and a half years I put on 100 thousand miles on my car
Let's put this into perspective. Europe- the entire continent, not just the EU- is 3.9 million square miles. The US is 3.8 million square miles. The US is 97% the size of Europe.
It took me 17 hours to go from El Paso to Houston. I drove through mountains, desert, plains, cities and small towns. It took me 19 hours to drive from southwestern Ohio to Houston. That shows just how big Texas really is.
2:05. A few years ago I visited Forth Worth, Texas. Adam, I drove from Fort Worth, Texas to El Paso, Texas. I drove for 9 HOURS (600 miles/965KM) and I didn't even leave the STATE OF TEXAS--hahaha!! That is another metric of how big the United States is....
I had to reread the message a few times before it actually clicked in my head that the 5 days was just one way. Lol. 5 days one way is still pretty quick. that's a pretty far drive.
When I was 8 years old - my family and I decided to go visit relatives in CANADA - my parents wanted to hit as MANY STATES on the east coast, as possible, on the way. We left in a turtle-shell camper and drove 2,266 miles to get from the Dallas Area....stopped off in Syracuse, New York for visit relatives, there, and then drove-on to Toronto & Ontario. THAT was a LONG DRIVE!!! Wish, now, as an adult I could TAKE that drive....but, as an 8 year old - after about an hour of "HEY - look at the trees" - or "Hey - look at that lake"....you're like: "OMG - they all look the SAME TO ME!!"....but, I'd love to do that, again, now, as an adult!! THANKS for the reactions, Adam!!
I live in Minneapolis. On a whim one Friday morning I decided to drive to Mexico. Highway 35 goes straight through: 1400 miles one way. Stopped overnight twice, walked across the bridge to Mexico, had lunch, turned around and drove 1400 miles back.
My state of Rhode Island has these cities and towns that were named after places in England: Barrington, Bristol, Coventry, Cumberland, Exeter, Glocester, Greenwich, Little Compton (probably Cullompton, Devon), Newport, New Shoreham, Portsmouth, Richmond, Tiverton, and Warwick. We have towns named for English kings: Charlestown (Charles II), Jamestown (James II), and Kingstown (possibly Charles II). We have towns named for English immigrants or Americans with English surnames: Burrillville, Cranston, Foster, Hopkinton, Johnston, Lincoln, Smithfield, and Warren. There are many more English names used for neighborhoods or parts of towns. We also have lots of indigenous place names, some of which can be challenging: Misquamicut, Pettaquamscutt, Quonochontaug, and Usquepaug.
2:10 Last 4th of July holiday, me and my friend (on a whim) decided to drive from Southern California to Forty-Fort Pennsylvania, with a stop in Wheatland Wyoming. We drove 3 days there, 2900 miles one way, stayed 4 nights, and drove back another 3 days.
@@ptrekboxbreaks5198 Well, it wasn't exactly on a whim. I was visiting an old co-worker, when he said out of the blue, "I'm driving to visit my brother in Pennsylvania by myself". So I said, "Screw it, I'm out of work and have a little cash. Let's go." Thus an adventure was born.
I couldn't actually say the longest distance in miles. My grandparents traveled the US with their airstream and I went with them for a month. We drove from mid- Mississippi to Duluth, MN but there were a lot of stops. When my family moved from Mississippi to Maryland, we would make the trip home to MS for holidays and summer. It was about 1,040 miles give or take. I just got back to Chattanooga,TN today after visiting my niece in Greenville, SC. It was an easy 4.5 hours. I can either go through the mountains or through Atlanta and I chose Atlanta today because I really wanted Buc ee's brisket sandwiches. Traffic sucked but it always does in Atlanta lol.
@2:10 We completed a bucket list trip of mine driving from Houston, Texas to Anchorage, Alaska which is 4,198 miles/68 hours of just drive time.....each way.
I drove tractor-trailer back and forth, across the US, for 25 years. I have some 4,500,000 miles driven. I did New Jersey, across the river from NYC, to San Francisco by the Southern route to avoid a blizzard, in 58 hours. That's somewhere around 3600 miles/5794 Km.
Took a trip up the West Coast for the day... middle of Northern California to Washington state and back to visit with some family. Round trip, it was just slightly over 1400 miles. Drove up in the morning, spent a couple hours hanging out, then drove back home.
One-Way: 1642 miles. Sign my name three times, hooked a trailer to my pickup truck and drove back 1642 miles. 88 hours, my driveway to my driveway. Slept in the truck 3 times. (yes, I was "packing")
Last month I drove 2-way from St.Paul MN to Breckenridge CO which is 990 miles each way. Maps says it’s 14 hours each way but it took us 16H and we only drove through 3 states on the way
I drove from Georgia to Texas with a toddler. It took us 11 hours and we only stopped a few times. Once we hit Texas we only went about another 100 miles to Tyler TX. What got me was the small town roads were 65mph. People were zipping by. Our son loved the ride. He thought we were chasing the big rigs. I had a CB in my vehicle so we could talk and listen to the truckers. Best thing to do is talk to a driver and ask if you can drift behind his rig. It saves gas and you get to go over the speed limit. I love my trucker buddies and they always looked after me and my family. My husband use to drive 112 miles everyday to and from work. He was on the Interstate, so that's why we had the CB. Driving in Atlanta is horrible and driving on Interstate 285 around Atlanta is almost like driving in a Nascar race, but half the drivers have 18 wheels and the other half shouldn't be allowed to drive! Thank God those days are over!
I received a brand new truck for work in April. It's now September. In those 5 months, I have driven the truck over 42,000 miles (about 67,600km). The truck has not left the states of Washington and Oregon. This is considered a local driving job - I'm back home every night. Long-haul drivers run even more miles (I've been there, done that). In addition, I drive my personal pickup about 25 miles each way going to and from work. I believe I'm near 3 million accident free miles driven in commercial trucks.
The furthest I've driven non-stop was NYC to Wisconsin which is about 900 miles. On a road trip I drove from Wisconsin to San Francisco up to Seattle and back. It totaled about 5,000 miles. The year before I drove to Nova Scotia, Canada and that was also about 5,000 miles round trip.
My longest solo drive. Left work about 6pm Friday. drove from Birmingham to Paducah Kentucky, 335 miles or about 5 hours plus gas and bathroom stops. Get up early in the morning Saturday and drive to Omaha Nebraska, 597 miles or 8 hours 40 minutes, stopping briefly at the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. Get up early AGAIN Sunday and drive to Badlands National Park in South Dakota,450 miles or 6 hours 15 minutes. Next day took a short drive to the Black hills and Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse, Then Devils Tower, Then headed back. Made the return trip from the Badlands in just two days! That was back when I was young and crazy.
Last year I took a month long road trip. Started in Indianapolis, went through Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, into Amarillo, Dallas, San Antonio TX, up to Roswell, over to Tombstone, AZ up to Phoenix, the Grand Canyon, Vegas, LA, up through Truckee, Into Reno and Carson City back across Nevada into Moab Utah then back to Indy through Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois. The total trip was over 7200 miles.
We used to drive 1022 miles (that's one way) to my grandparents' house several times a year. We did it all nonstop too, the best time we ever made was just under 16 hours. Did that for years. But I have family who have done the full cross country trip. One of them went from Florida across to northern California (took 3 or 4 days I think, when you include stopping at a motel to sleep).
1350 miles only stopping for gas. I actually mentioned it in one of your college football vids, we drove from canada to knoxville tennessee. And Happy Birthday!!!
In the US, every time you see a straight line dividing states, that's a political boundary. Every time you see a crooked line dividing states, that's a river or waterway. So, back when they were deciding how big states would be, they just drew straight lines on the map and declared that was the border, but if there was a river, then they used the river as the border.
I've driven across the whole stretch of the US when I received permanent change of station (PCS) orders from Camp Pendleton, CA to Washington, DC after I returned from deployment with the Marine Corps. I drove from Camp Pendleton to Corpus Christi, TX (1,457 miles) to pick up my daughters then from Corpus Christi to DC (1,625 miles). The entire trip took me 4 days since PCS orders give you a limited window to travel and settle in your new place.
Dude, I drive 368 miles round trip just to get a burrito from my favorite Mexican restaurant. I regularly drive 347 miles to buy blue cheese potato salad from a small diner in the middle of nowhere. I have driven 530 miles to pick up pies for family thanksgiving on occasion. 100 miles is a spur of the moment jaunt!
When I was a child we drove 3000 miles from South Carolina to California. My daughter and her family drive 1000 one way every Christmas. That is from Austin Texas to South Carolina. So, yeah, we drive a lot. Lol
Our typical "what do you want to do this weekend?" routine, used to be picking a place within 300 miles (48okm) to visit. Three day weekends used to be within a 350-400 mile (560-650km)) ring. Getting a couple years under the belt took the fun out of those drives, though. 🙂
I drove clear across the U.S. last year by myself, with my camper, about 3.5 months. 2600 miles one way, and total of 5200 miles both ways. Loved the adventure!
I used to drive 1200 miles, straight through, stopping only for gas and food and bathroom breaks about once a year to visit my home state. About 20 hours.
i was born in New Jersey, moved to Pennsylvania when i was 3, moved to Arizona when i was 5, moved to Nebraska when i was 9, moved to Pennsylvania when i was 13, moved to New Hampshire when i was 18, back to Pennsylvania at 19, moved to Massachusettes at 22, moved to New Jersey at 22, moved to Florida at 23, been here since then and im now almost 58.
I live in Jamestown, NY, and just recently went to see my Dad in Tennessee. It was 651 miles one way. It took me 10 hours to make the trip non-stop(except for bathroom and fuel breaks) im my car.
Anaheim, Ca to Buffalo, NY in 1977 - 2,531 miles and San Diego, CA to Newport, NC several times - 2,643 miles. Both take about 4 1/2 days solid driving, no mucking about.
Most of the places in New England are named after places in the UK. That part of America is 400 years old. Check out google maps some time and zoom in on those 6 states and count how many of the towns are named after UK ones. You'll feel right at home.
Over a 3-day period, I drove 1800 miles, from Dallas TX to Boston MA. Last year I drove with my son from Fort Worth TX to Providence RI (roughly 1700 miles) over 4 days.
I grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, but my extended family lived in the Los Angeles area. When I was a kid, our family vacations would frequently be driving the 1600 miles out there split over 2-3 days, staying for a week or so, and then turning around and driving back. It's a drive I've done probably 15-20 times in my life at this point.
I did a trip with my dad from Seattle, WA to Yuma, AZ then to Phoenix, then Las Vegas, then Reno and back up to Seattle. About 3,000 miles. The only part that got bad was when we crossed from Oregon into California and the GPS announced we had about 600 miles until the next turn. Overall, it was great because we got to explore a lot of small towns and sites along the way. If I remember right we did this over a 10 day period.
Saturday I got up at 5:00 am drove 91 miles hiked 3 miles, one way, in about 3 hours, spent some time at the summit of Mt. Pierce, hiked back to the car, another 3 miles and drove 91 miles back home and got there at about 6:00 pm. This is something I do a couple times a month.
San Bernardino Count, where I live is largely desert. There is a mountain range that separates the heavily populated Inland Empire. North of that mountain range are high desert cities, still large with nearly 450,000 people. To leave the county to the north, the route to Las Vegas, is about 200 miles. A quick 2 and a half hour's drive. In that range are two distinct ski areas. The Cajon (Cahone) Pass with tops out a little over 4,000 feet. There are many villages in that area with lakes both large and small. It takes several hours to drive one of the more spectacular drives in the area, the Rim Of The World Highway, with 2,000 food drops if you go off the edge. This is the range where you've read about the huge forest fires. The high desert differs from the low desert (Palm Springs) because we cool down 30-35 degrees (f). The low desert stays hot overnight. To our north is the area where U.S. Army trains it's tank corps. I live in Apple Valley, the "ritzy" town up here. One thing about Westerners vs Easteners is that we are accustomed to vast, far horizons. When I travel to the East, I seldom see the far horizon. It is why so many out West choose to live in such spacious areas. I find it hard to understand how you can live on such a small island.
I drove from Detroit Michigan to Seattle Washington, approx 2400 miles. Google Maps says it's 1 day 10h straight through, it took my friend and I 5 days in a U-Haul pulling a trailer.
Left Bristol Virginia at 5 am local time and drove a little over 1100 miles in one shot to central Minnesota via Appleton Wisconsin and arrived home at 12am local. 1100 miles in 20 hours nonstop pulling an enclosed trailer with two Harley baggers.. cruise control set at 75
I moved myself from Jefferson City, Mo. to Hanover, Pa. It took 3 trips or 3 weekends. 1864 miles round trip, per trip. Total mileage around 4700 miles.
My friends and I once drove straight through from Chicago, IL to Spokane, WA - 1,786 miles/2,874 km. Switching out drivers every 6 hours or so. Well, with potty and food breaks.
The longest trip I've done in one go is from Grand Junction, Colorado to St. Louis, Missouri. It was about 21 hours including food stops and a two-hour 'nap' break: 1,091 miles / 1,1755 km
Longest drive was in my friend's 1956 Chevy Belair from my home near San Francisco to a car show in Bowling Green Kentucky. We had to stop to sleep a couple times, but it was a 2,370 mile drive. -It was a blast BTW. We traveled bits of the old route 66 on the way.
My longest non-layover trip (stops for gas, food and restroom only) was 1300 miles from Detroit to Denver (two drivers), or 700 miles non-layover trip alone after a 10 hour shift at work from Michigan to North Carolina
Adam, Consider this: The distance between New York & Los Angeles is longer than the distance between Lisbon & Moscow. Texas is larger than any European nation, except Russia.
Adam I drove 160 kilometers last night to watch my Los Angeles play a baseball game (in Anaheim, such a stupid name), watched the game for 2.5 hours and then turned around and drove 160 kilometers back home after the game. Earlier this year I drove home from Idaho Falls on a Sunday to my home in San Diego. It was just short 1600 kilometers. Stopped a few times for gas and made it in around 15 hours.. Last November I drove from Jacksonville to San Antonio which is 1700 kilometers, slept for 8 hours and then drove the remaining 2,000 kilometers the next day only stopping for gas
My husband and I drive from upstate New York to Myrtle Beach South Carolina and back (1600 miles round trip) at least twice a year. We have family there and visit in the Summer and during the Autumn/Winter holidays. (Thanksgiving and Christmas) Some years we've made the trip 3 or 4 times. The farthest I've ever personally driven is 1300 miles one way, from NY to Florida. (2600 miles round trip) We break up the trip, now that we have kids. We'll drive about half way, get a hotel for the night and leave the next morning to finish the drive. When my husband was in college, he and his buddy drove from NY to Los Angeles CA without stopping, other than for bathroom/gas station breaks and to grab some food. That was just under 3,000 miles one way. His buddy was in the military and was going to be stationed in Hawaii, so he had to drive his car out to California to be shipped to Honolulu. My hubby flew home and his buddy headed to his new duty station in Hawaii a couple of days later.
I regularly drive 500-600 miles to visit family. In one go, I did 800 miles to go to Glacier National Park. Otherwise, you segment it out, taking breaks in certain cities and states. I live on the Oregon Coast, so it takes a lot of miles to get anywhere. I was so confused when I moved to a couple of different cities in Washington state, and people refused to drive 5-10 miles to come visit because i lived in a different area of town 😭
I remember when we rented a car for one day in Ireland and we told the guy that we planned to drive about 155 miles or 250 km one way to some castle and then turn around and come back he was incredulous and actually told us we couldn't do that in one day but for us Canadian that's a normal day trip, it's like driving from Montreal to Quebec City we do that all the time.
I live 1/2 way between Calgary and Vancouver in southern central BC. I regularly drive the 400 + kms to either city! I’ve driven from Montreal to Vancouver 1/2 dozen times, as a “civilian”. (it takes 4-5 days on the road, 12 hrs+/day) As an ex-truck driver, I used to drive 13 hrs/day, 5 or 6 days a week, for weeks on end! I did “west coast turn-arounds” between Toronto and Vancouver! The highway NEVER ends, herein North America! Peace
Happy early birthday Adam! Fun fact, where I live in western Pennsylvania is the northeastern corner of the greater Pittsburgh metro area and we have a small town ten miles south of the town I live in called Sligo after the place of the same name in Ireland, but it's ironically a "dry town" meaning they have no place that sells alcohol. Weird huh.
The longest drive I did in a single day was ~830 miles from Massachusetts to South Carolina. I was extremely tired the next day and was not looking forward to the return drive.
I used to have a friend that lived in Scottsdale AZ so I would drive about once a year from Fullerton CA to see him. That's a one-day drive of 366 miles. I would also drive about 260 miles on weekends to make a Vegas run and that is just over 260 in 4 hours.
Furthest I have drove (my parents drove) was Concord New Hampshire to Hershey Pennsylvania. Which was around 7-8 hours long. On the way back I through up 8 times and had to stop at a hospital in Boston. Worked out anyways because I had an appointment in Boston the day I got out.
I live in Jacksonville! You can drive for an hour, with no traffic on the interstate... and still be in Jacksonville. 😆 It's a large and very spread out city. My one big complaint is that for as large as the city is, there is an extreme lack of public transportation. I thinkbthe longest drive I've done is from Miami, FL to Terre Haute, IN. Google says it is roughly 1,170 miles or 18 hours if you drive non stop. Thankfulky, we were able to stop for sleeping!
The longest I've ever gone was a 5 day moving journey from San Fransisco California to Boston Massachusetts. Had to add mileage to avoid a snow storm so we ended up hitting part of Texas too. So almost 3,800 miles.
The longest I drove (hauling a camper trailer) was 1186 miles; from Connecticut to Florida. My second longest drive, in a car, was 1031 miles; from Connecticut to Wisconsin to visit family. Less than 300 miles are day trips.
a few years ago i moved from southern california to michigan, it was 2,200 miles and i did it in 40 hours. i slept 2 times, only 3 hours each time. i was driving just about all the rest of those 40 hours.
I rode on the back of a Harley from Key West, Florida to Baltimore, Maryland. Two 11 1/2 hour days. I’ve been on many road trips that were 4-7 hours of driving in one day.
I drove straight thru from North Jersey to Houston Tx, if my memory serves me right, that was 1450 miles or so. To be fair we had two drivers, and was around 23 hours. Leaving Sunday for an 1100 mile journey from Orlando to just north of Philadelphia. I’m doing all the driving and will stay at a hotel overnight, weather dependent. Tropics are busy this time of year, might have to step up my game. I would rather persevere on the dry roads rather than a tropical storm. I did contemplate putting my car on the auto train up to D.C. but that was another $1300.00 bucks round trip, maybe a one way trip home weather dependent. I can make it in 18 hours or so if it’s smooth sailing. Last trip up north till spring, or I would just fly? Emergency only, I hate the cold.
In 1976 my husband and I took a motorcycle tour of the USA. We went from Los Angeles California to Reno Nevada across the center of Utah and Colorado to Denver Omaha Kentucky Tennessee North Carolina South Carolina New York New Jersey Massachusetts Connecticut Rhode Island New Hampshire and Maine we took 4 months to do this and from west to east and east to west we traveled a little over 4000 miles. Two of those days on our way home we traveled a thousand miles I'll never do that again in my life. Now that I'm 72 one day a month my husband and I take a 4-Hour road trip and travel about 300 miles, that's monthly. When I worked I live 10 mi from the job I was also on call 3 to 4 times a week
Longest I've driven by myself. I drive from my hometown in TN to Philadelphia, PA which is around 500 miles. I drove from home to Philly one Saturday; drove from Philly to home the next Saturday; and back to Philly the next.
Remember we went to property hunt. We were considering moving. We went from extreme southern Wisconsin to the very north of Montana. It was about 1, 450 miles. The drive was beautiful. I also drive down every couple of years to Florida to visit my sisters. That trip is right around 1, 250 miles. We Americans don't think it is odd to drive those distances for vacations or family trips. And I drive 60 to 70 miles regularly since the closest large city to me is 60 miles away. Just a shopping day
The longest drive I've been on was going from my town in Pennsylvania to Masonville, Colorado. That was 1,626 miles or about 2,617 kilometers. Which took 2 days to complete
The Inland Empire map is a little deceiving. Riverside (my hometown), San Bernardino, Colton, Norco, Corona, Rancho Cucamonga, etc is pretty big, but that red blob that is the county of San Bernardino (which does not include Riverside by the way, that is Riverside County), is almost all empty Mojave Desert out to the Colorado River and Nevada border. Even the stretch of I-10 out to the Arizona border that has Palm Springs and Indio (Coachella for you music fans) is Riverside County
My longest road trip in the states is around 4000 miles round trip. And lots of places here named after founders homes back there. My town is named after Rathdrum Ireland!
I live in the state of Iowa. I have driven to Memphis & Atlanta from Des Moines Iowa to Atlanta, Georgia. It's over 900 miles, and it takes 18hours ,if you're by yourself, to complete it.
i live in the Ashland Kentucky area, and iv'e driven multiple times to go visit my daughters in the Lake Charles Louisiana area. and the actual point to point distance on my preferred route is 1055 miles one way, takes 15 hrs if you dont stop anywhere! but with stops for food, gas, rest, etc, it usually took us 20 hrs one way! and then if you run into construction, detours, or accidents it could take longer.
The US has an Air Force base (Eglin) that’s half the size of Rhode Island. The base alone is 724 square miles of land with a significant amount more in water and air space
I went to high school in Barstow, San Bernardino County, California. At the time, it was the largest school district in the Contiguous United States. A student in my class had to travel more 140 miles one way to school.
1200 miles one way from Colorado to Kentucky. About 20 hours of driving, stopping only for gas. And no one else in my household can drive so it's all on me. Then I turn around and do it all over again to go home.
Just drove a 2,000 mile road trip from Texas to Colorado and back in 6 days. I must say, even through Texas, the longest stretch, our country is beautiful!!
So for several years the distance from my parents' house and my post college home was about 90 miles one way which I took at least once a month and it was nothing. The longest i drove in one sitting aside from gas and food was about 700 miles straight. It would have been the full 811 miles, but I had a bit of car trouble so I needed to get my timing belt replaced, so I had a two hour break.
I drive 1800 miles every other year. From Oregon to Missouri. I live in Oregon and my son lives in Kansas City Missouri. 3 day drive. I Love this drive it's Beautiful
My wife and i used to drive from Florida to New Mexico and back on a 3 day weekend to drop/pick up the kids from grandparents. Each way was about 1300 miles. One would drive the other would sleep. Drive straight through.
I drove from Phoenix Arizona to NYC. Took me about 4 days. I drove from Atlanta Ga to Phoenix. That took the 3 days, the last day we drove 14 hours straight. From Amarillo TX to Phoenix. I will never do that again. Now here in Phoenix, where I live, we can get to San Diego or LA in about 6 hours and Las Vegas in about 4 to 4 1/2 hours. Easy.
My longest single-day drive with only brief rest stops: 686 miles from Baltimore, Maryland to Rochester, New York and back. This was when I was attending the University of Maryland. It was easily over 12 hours of driving. I haven't done anything like it since.
I once drove 33hrs straight, from Nevada to Michigan, stopping only for gas and coffee. The distance was nowhere near the length of the US! By the way, I don’t ever want to to that again!
Longest I've driven was in a snow storm going from Washington State to Oklahoma, just about 2,000 miles! When I lived in Hawaii, I also didn't realize how huge the US mainland was.
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When I was a traveling nurse I drove back and forth from Northern Wisconsin to Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania and back again. In less than a month about three weeks I put on over three thousand miles. Every three thousand miles an oil change. I believe in a matter of 3 and a half years I put on 100 thousand miles on my car
Let's put this into perspective.
Europe- the entire continent, not just the EU- is 3.9 million square miles.
The US is 3.8 million square miles.
The US is 97% the size of Europe.
Adam, UK is so widdle biddy! Hoochie coochie coo! :D
I'll never forget when I drove to Texas, took me 21 hours, and once you get into Texas it's goes on forever.
i10 two days, El Paso to Louisiana. i40 two hours.Right across the panhandle and into Oklahoma or New Mexico depending on east west or west east.
It took me 17 hours to go from El Paso to Houston. I drove through mountains, desert, plains, cities and small towns. It took me 19 hours to drive from southwestern Ohio to Houston. That shows just how big Texas really is.
I thought you said "once you get into Texas it's gone forever" lmao
Oh god yes, drove from Houston to Indianapolis Indiana and I had to stop before we got out of Tx. Took two days for me
2:05. A few years ago I visited Forth Worth, Texas. Adam, I drove from Fort Worth, Texas to El Paso, Texas. I drove for 9 HOURS (600 miles/965KM) and I didn't even leave the STATE OF TEXAS--hahaha!! That is another metric of how big the United States is....
Agreed...did the same drive. Also, the drive from SoCal to NorCal (say San Diego to Eureka) takes forever too. Cheers!
I drove from Fort Worth Texas to Anchorage Alaska, and back. 3970 miles in 5 days one way. 10 days almost 8,000 miles.
WOW - that beat my drive from Dallas to Canada!! THAT is a SUPER-LONG DRIVE in a VERY short amount of time!!!
@@Jude_196 Mine too from Miami to Seattle.
I had to reread the message a few times before it actually clicked in my head that the 5 days was just one way. Lol. 5 days one way is still pretty quick. that's a pretty far drive.
When I was 8 years old - my family and I decided to go visit relatives in CANADA - my parents wanted to hit as MANY STATES on the east coast, as possible, on the way. We left in a turtle-shell camper and drove 2,266 miles to get from the Dallas Area....stopped off in Syracuse, New York for visit relatives, there, and then drove-on to Toronto & Ontario. THAT was a LONG DRIVE!!! Wish, now, as an adult I could TAKE that drive....but, as an 8 year old - after about an hour of "HEY - look at the trees" - or "Hey - look at that lake"....you're like: "OMG - they all look the SAME TO ME!!"....but, I'd love to do that, again, now, as an adult!! THANKS for the reactions, Adam!!
I moved from Wellington, Florida, back to San Francisco, California. 2,981 miles in 2 days. Loved it.
I traveled 2,600 miles from Massachusetts to Washington state during January through snow most of the way.
I live in Minneapolis. On a whim one Friday morning I decided to drive to Mexico. Highway 35 goes straight through: 1400 miles one way. Stopped overnight twice, walked across the bridge to Mexico, had lunch, turned around and drove 1400 miles back.
My state of Rhode Island has these cities and towns that were named after places in England: Barrington, Bristol, Coventry, Cumberland, Exeter, Glocester, Greenwich, Little Compton (probably Cullompton, Devon), Newport, New Shoreham, Portsmouth, Richmond, Tiverton, and Warwick. We have towns named for English kings: Charlestown (Charles II), Jamestown (James II), and Kingstown (possibly Charles II). We have towns named for English immigrants or Americans with English surnames: Burrillville, Cranston, Foster, Hopkinton, Johnston, Lincoln, Smithfield, and Warren. There are many more English names used for neighborhoods or parts of towns. We also have lots of indigenous place names, some of which can be challenging: Misquamicut, Pettaquamscutt, Quonochontaug, and Usquepaug.
Hey I’m not alone! There’s another Rhode Islander! 😱
Albuquerque NM to Vallejo CA; around 1,100 miles in 17 hours. Long day! 😂
@@stevelasell1185 I'm guessing you didn't intend to reply to me.
@@JPMadden I did the same thing, but I noticed it right away and corrected it. 😉
2:10 Last 4th of July holiday, me and my friend (on a whim) decided to drive from Southern California to Forty-Fort Pennsylvania, with a stop in Wheatland Wyoming. We drove 3 days there, 2900 miles one way, stayed 4 nights, and drove back another 3 days.
That's fuking crazy
@@ptrekboxbreaks5198 Well, it wasn't exactly on a whim. I was visiting an old co-worker, when he said out of the blue, "I'm driving to visit my brother in Pennsylvania by myself". So I said, "Screw it, I'm out of work and have a little cash. Let's go." Thus an adventure was born.
@@moe92870 I thought my drive from Philly to Boston was long 🤣
Going home for the holidays was a 400+ mile drive.
It was a 125 mile drive to work.
I couldn't actually say the longest distance in miles. My grandparents traveled the US with their airstream and I went with them for a month. We drove from mid- Mississippi to Duluth, MN but there were a lot of stops. When my family moved from Mississippi to Maryland, we would make the trip home to MS for holidays and summer. It was about 1,040 miles give or take. I just got back to Chattanooga,TN today after visiting my niece in Greenville, SC. It was an easy 4.5 hours. I can either go through the mountains or through Atlanta and I chose Atlanta today because I really wanted Buc ee's brisket sandwiches. Traffic sucked but it always does in Atlanta lol.
@2:10 We completed a bucket list trip of mine driving from Houston, Texas to Anchorage, Alaska which is 4,198 miles/68 hours of just drive time.....each way.
I drove tractor-trailer back and forth, across the US, for 25 years. I have some 4,500,000 miles driven. I did New Jersey, across the river from NYC, to San Francisco by the Southern route to avoid a blizzard, in 58 hours. That's somewhere around 3600 miles/5794 Km.
In Texas if you ask us how far something is we answer in hours instead of miles, it’s just easier.
Took a trip up the West Coast for the day... middle of Northern California to Washington state and back to visit with some family. Round trip, it was just slightly over 1400 miles. Drove up in the morning, spent a couple hours hanging out, then drove back home.
One-Way: 1642 miles. Sign my name three times, hooked a trailer to my pickup truck and drove back 1642 miles. 88 hours, my driveway to my driveway. Slept in the truck 3 times. (yes, I was "packing")
Last month I drove 2-way from St.Paul MN to Breckenridge CO which is 990 miles each way. Maps says it’s 14 hours each way but it took us 16H and we only drove through 3 states on the way
I drove from Georgia to Texas with a toddler. It took us 11 hours and we only stopped a few times. Once we hit Texas we only went about another 100 miles to Tyler TX. What got me was the small town roads were 65mph. People were zipping by. Our son loved the ride. He thought we were chasing the big rigs. I had a CB in my vehicle so we could talk and listen to the truckers. Best thing to do is talk to a driver and ask if you can drift behind his rig. It saves gas and you get to go over the speed limit. I love my trucker buddies and they always looked after me and my family.
My husband use to drive 112 miles everyday to and from work. He was on the Interstate, so that's why we had the CB. Driving in Atlanta is horrible and driving on Interstate 285 around Atlanta is almost like driving in a Nascar race, but half the drivers have 18 wheels and the other half shouldn't be allowed to drive! Thank God those days are over!
I received a brand new truck for work in April. It's now September. In those 5 months, I have driven the truck over 42,000 miles (about 67,600km). The truck has not left the states of Washington and Oregon. This is considered a local driving job - I'm back home every night. Long-haul drivers run even more miles (I've been there, done that). In addition, I drive my personal pickup about 25 miles each way going to and from work. I believe I'm near 3 million accident free miles driven in commercial trucks.
The furthest I've driven non-stop was NYC to Wisconsin which is about 900 miles. On a road trip I drove from Wisconsin to San Francisco up to Seattle and back. It totaled about 5,000 miles. The year before I drove to Nova Scotia, Canada and that was also about 5,000 miles round trip.
Fun note: Lake Superior is approximately the same size as Scotland.
My longest solo drive. Left work about 6pm Friday. drove from Birmingham to Paducah Kentucky, 335 miles or about 5 hours plus gas and bathroom stops. Get up early in the morning Saturday and drive to Omaha Nebraska, 597 miles or 8 hours 40 minutes, stopping briefly at the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. Get up early AGAIN Sunday and drive to Badlands National Park in South Dakota,450 miles or 6 hours 15 minutes. Next day took a short drive to the Black hills and Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse, Then Devils Tower, Then headed back. Made the return trip from the Badlands in just two days! That was back when I was young and crazy.
Last year I took a month long road trip. Started in Indianapolis, went through Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, into Amarillo, Dallas, San Antonio TX, up to Roswell, over to Tombstone, AZ up to Phoenix, the Grand Canyon, Vegas, LA, up through Truckee, Into Reno and Carson City back across Nevada into Moab Utah then back to Indy through Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois. The total trip was over 7200 miles.
We used to drive 1022 miles (that's one way) to my grandparents' house several times a year. We did it all nonstop too, the best time we ever made was just under 16 hours. Did that for years. But I have family who have done the full cross country trip. One of them went from Florida across to northern California (took 3 or 4 days I think, when you include stopping at a motel to sleep).
I drove from Indianapolis to Los Angeles. It takes about 5 days on my speed. I just relax and enjoy the views. 😊
1350 miles only stopping for gas. I actually mentioned it in one of your college football vids, we drove from canada to knoxville tennessee.
And Happy Birthday!!!
In the US, every time you see a straight line dividing states, that's a political boundary. Every time you see a crooked line dividing states, that's a river or waterway. So, back when they were deciding how big states would be, they just drew straight lines on the map and declared that was the border, but if there was a river, then they used the river as the border.
I've driven across the whole stretch of the US when I received permanent change of station (PCS) orders from Camp Pendleton, CA to Washington, DC after I returned from deployment with the Marine Corps. I drove from Camp Pendleton to Corpus Christi, TX (1,457 miles) to pick up my daughters then from Corpus Christi to DC (1,625 miles). The entire trip took me 4 days since PCS orders give you a limited window to travel and settle in your new place.
Dude, I drive 368 miles round trip just to get a burrito from my favorite Mexican restaurant. I regularly drive 347 miles to buy blue cheese potato salad from a small diner in the middle of nowhere. I have driven 530 miles to pick up pies for family thanksgiving on occasion. 100 miles is a spur of the moment jaunt!
When I was a child we drove 3000 miles from South Carolina to California. My daughter and her family drive 1000 one way every Christmas. That is from Austin Texas to South Carolina. So, yeah, we drive a lot. Lol
Our typical "what do you want to do this weekend?" routine, used to be picking a place within 300 miles (48okm) to visit. Three day weekends used to be within a 350-400 mile (560-650km)) ring. Getting a couple years under the belt took the fun out of those drives, though. 🙂
I drove clear across the U.S. last year by myself, with my camper, about 3.5 months. 2600 miles one way, and total of 5200 miles both ways. Loved the adventure!
Have had plenty of long drives, but for perspective...I drive 50 miles to work and 50 miles back home every day
I used to drive 1200 miles, straight through, stopping only for gas and food and bathroom breaks about once a year to visit my home state. About 20 hours.
I've driven from Florida to Pennsylvania. It's about 1200 miles each way.
i was born in New Jersey, moved to Pennsylvania when i was 3, moved to Arizona when i was 5, moved to Nebraska when i was 9, moved to Pennsylvania when i was 13, moved to New Hampshire when i was 18, back to Pennsylvania at 19, moved to Massachusettes at 22, moved to New Jersey at 22, moved to Florida at 23, been here since then and im now almost 58.
I live in Jamestown, NY, and just recently went to see my Dad in Tennessee. It was 651 miles one way. It took me 10 hours to make the trip non-stop(except for bathroom and fuel breaks) im my car.
Anaheim, Ca to Buffalo, NY in 1977 - 2,531 miles and San Diego, CA to Newport, NC several times - 2,643 miles.
Both take about 4 1/2 days solid driving, no mucking about.
Most of the places in New England are named after places in the UK. That part of America is 400 years old. Check out google maps some time and zoom in on those 6 states and count how many of the towns are named after UK ones. You'll feel right at home.
Over a 3-day period, I drove 1800 miles, from Dallas TX to Boston MA. Last year I drove with my son from Fort Worth TX to Providence RI (roughly 1700 miles) over 4 days.
My longest trip was from Jax FL to Carson City NV. Been driving cross country since I was a child.
I grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, but my extended family lived in the Los Angeles area. When I was a kid, our family vacations would frequently be driving the 1600 miles out there split over 2-3 days, staying for a week or so, and then turning around and driving back. It's a drive I've done probably 15-20 times in my life at this point.
I did a trip with my dad from Seattle, WA to Yuma, AZ then to Phoenix, then Las Vegas, then Reno and back up to Seattle. About 3,000 miles. The only part that got bad was when we crossed from Oregon into California and the GPS announced we had about 600 miles until the next turn. Overall, it was great because we got to explore a lot of small towns and sites along the way. If I remember right we did this over a 10 day period.
Saturday I got up at 5:00 am drove 91 miles hiked 3 miles, one way, in about 3 hours, spent some time at the summit of Mt. Pierce, hiked back to the car, another 3 miles and drove 91 miles back home and got there at about 6:00 pm. This is something I do a couple times a month.
San Bernardino Count, where I live is largely desert. There is a mountain range that separates the heavily populated Inland Empire. North of that mountain range are high desert cities, still large with nearly 450,000 people. To leave the county to the north, the route to Las Vegas, is about 200 miles. A quick 2 and a half hour's drive.
In that range are two distinct ski areas. The Cajon (Cahone) Pass with tops out a little over 4,000 feet. There are many villages in that area with lakes both large and small. It takes several hours to drive one of the more spectacular drives in the area, the Rim Of The World Highway, with 2,000 food drops if you go off the edge. This is the range where you've read about the huge forest fires.
The high desert differs from the low desert (Palm Springs) because we cool down 30-35 degrees (f). The low desert stays hot overnight. To our north is the area where U.S. Army trains it's tank corps.
I live in Apple Valley, the "ritzy" town up here. One thing about Westerners vs Easteners is that we are accustomed to vast, far horizons. When I travel to the East, I seldom see the far horizon. It is why so many out West choose to live in such spacious areas. I find it hard to understand how you can live on such a small island.
I drove from Detroit Michigan to Seattle Washington, approx 2400 miles. Google Maps says it's 1 day 10h straight through, it took my friend and I 5 days in a U-Haul pulling a trailer.
Left Bristol Virginia at 5 am local time and drove a little over 1100 miles in one shot to central Minnesota via Appleton Wisconsin and arrived home at 12am local.
1100 miles in 20 hours nonstop pulling an enclosed trailer with two Harley baggers.. cruise control set at 75
I moved myself from Jefferson City, Mo. to Hanover, Pa. It took 3 trips or 3 weekends. 1864 miles round trip, per trip. Total mileage around 4700 miles.
My friends and I once drove straight through from Chicago, IL to Spokane, WA - 1,786 miles/2,874 km. Switching out drivers every 6 hours or so. Well, with potty and food breaks.
The longest trip I've done in one go is from Grand Junction, Colorado to St. Louis, Missouri. It was about 21 hours including food stops and a two-hour 'nap' break: 1,091 miles / 1,1755 km
Longest drive was in my friend's 1956 Chevy Belair from my home near San Francisco to a car show in Bowling Green Kentucky. We had to stop to sleep a couple times, but it was a 2,370 mile drive. -It was a blast BTW. We traveled bits of the old route 66 on the way.
My longest non-layover trip (stops for gas, food and restroom only) was 1300 miles from Detroit to Denver (two drivers), or 700 miles non-layover trip alone after a 10 hour shift at work from Michigan to North Carolina
Adam,
Consider this:
The distance between New York & Los Angeles is longer than the distance between Lisbon & Moscow.
Texas is larger than any European nation, except Russia.
Adam I drove 160 kilometers last night to watch my Los Angeles play a baseball game (in Anaheim, such a stupid name), watched the game for 2.5 hours and then turned around and drove 160 kilometers back home after the game. Earlier this year I drove home from Idaho Falls on a Sunday to my home in San Diego. It was just short 1600 kilometers. Stopped a few times for gas and made it in around 15 hours.. Last November I drove from Jacksonville to San Antonio which is 1700 kilometers, slept for 8 hours and then drove the remaining 2,000 kilometers the next day only stopping for gas
My husband and I drive from upstate New York to Myrtle Beach South Carolina and back (1600 miles round trip) at least twice a year. We have family there and visit in the Summer and during the Autumn/Winter holidays. (Thanksgiving and Christmas) Some years we've made the trip 3 or 4 times. The farthest I've ever personally driven is 1300 miles one way, from NY to Florida. (2600 miles round trip) We break up the trip, now that we have kids. We'll drive about half way, get a hotel for the night and leave the next morning to finish the drive. When my husband was in college, he and his buddy drove from NY to Los Angeles CA without stopping, other than for bathroom/gas station breaks and to grab some food. That was just under 3,000 miles one way. His buddy was in the military and was going to be stationed in Hawaii, so he had to drive his car out to California to be shipped to Honolulu. My hubby flew home and his buddy headed to his new duty station in Hawaii a couple of days later.
I regularly drive 500-600 miles to visit family. In one go, I did 800 miles to go to Glacier National Park. Otherwise, you segment it out, taking breaks in certain cities and states. I live on the Oregon Coast, so it takes a lot of miles to get anywhere. I was so confused when I moved to a couple of different cities in Washington state, and people refused to drive 5-10 miles to come visit because i lived in a different area of town 😭
I remember when we rented a car for one day in Ireland and we told the guy that we planned to drive about 155 miles or 250 km one way to some castle and then turn around and come back he was incredulous and actually told us we couldn't do that in one day but for us Canadian that's a normal day trip, it's like driving from Montreal to Quebec City we do that all the time.
I live 1/2 way between Calgary and Vancouver in southern central BC. I regularly drive the 400 + kms to either city!
I’ve driven from Montreal to Vancouver 1/2 dozen times, as a “civilian”. (it takes 4-5 days on the road, 12 hrs+/day)
As an ex-truck driver, I used to drive 13 hrs/day, 5 or 6 days a week, for weeks on end! I did “west coast turn-arounds” between Toronto and Vancouver!
The highway NEVER ends, herein North America!
Peace
Longest trip was from Spokane, WA to Loveland, CO via Boise, ID; 1197 miles and then back for a family reunion.
Happy early birthday Adam!
Fun fact, where I live in western Pennsylvania is the northeastern corner of the greater Pittsburgh metro area and we have a small town ten miles south of the town I live in called Sligo after the place of the same name in Ireland, but it's ironically a "dry town" meaning they have no place that sells alcohol. Weird huh.
The longest drive I did in a single day was ~830 miles from Massachusetts to South Carolina. I was extremely tired the next day and was not looking forward to the return drive.
I used to have a friend that lived in Scottsdale AZ so I would drive about once a year from Fullerton CA to see him. That's a one-day drive of 366 miles. I would also drive about 260 miles on weekends to make a Vegas run and that is just over 260 in 4 hours.
Furthest I have drove (my parents drove) was Concord New Hampshire to Hershey Pennsylvania. Which was around 7-8 hours long. On the way back I through up 8 times and had to stop at a hospital in Boston. Worked out anyways because I had an appointment in Boston the day I got out.
I live in Jacksonville! You can drive for an hour, with no traffic on the interstate... and still be in Jacksonville. 😆 It's a large and very spread out city. My one big complaint is that for as large as the city is, there is an extreme lack of public transportation. I thinkbthe longest drive I've done is from Miami, FL to Terre Haute, IN. Google says it is roughly 1,170 miles or 18 hours if you drive non stop. Thankfulky, we were able to stop for sleeping!
The longest I've ever gone was a 5 day moving journey from San Fransisco California to Boston Massachusetts. Had to add mileage to avoid a snow storm so we ended up hitting part of Texas too. So almost 3,800 miles.
We drove straight through from KY to Key West FL over 20 hours and over 2050 miles. We took turns driving and sleeping in a motorhome.
In July, I drove from Arkansas to Oregon to California and back. 4990 miles in ten days.
The longest I drove (hauling a camper trailer) was 1186 miles; from Connecticut to Florida.
My second longest drive, in a car, was 1031 miles; from Connecticut to Wisconsin to visit family.
Less than 300 miles are day trips.
a few years ago i moved from southern california to michigan, it was 2,200 miles and i did it in 40 hours. i slept 2 times, only 3 hours each time. i was driving just about all the rest of those 40 hours.
I rode on the back of a Harley from Key West, Florida to Baltimore, Maryland. Two 11 1/2 hour days.
I’ve been on many road trips that were 4-7 hours of driving in one day.
I drove straight thru from North Jersey to Houston Tx, if my memory serves me right, that was 1450 miles or so. To be fair we had two drivers, and was around 23 hours.
Leaving Sunday for an 1100 mile journey from Orlando to just north of Philadelphia.
I’m doing all the driving and will stay at a hotel overnight, weather dependent.
Tropics are busy this time of year, might have to step up my game. I would rather persevere on the dry roads rather than a tropical storm. I did contemplate putting my car on the auto train up to D.C. but that was another $1300.00 bucks round trip, maybe a one way trip home weather dependent. I can make it in 18 hours or so if it’s smooth sailing.
Last trip up north till spring, or I would just fly? Emergency only, I hate the cold.
In 1976 my husband and I took a motorcycle tour of the USA. We went from Los Angeles California to Reno Nevada across the center of Utah and Colorado to Denver Omaha Kentucky Tennessee North Carolina South Carolina New York New Jersey Massachusetts Connecticut Rhode Island New Hampshire and Maine we took 4 months to do this and from west to east and east to west we traveled a little over 4000 miles. Two of those days on our way home we traveled a thousand miles I'll never do that again in my life. Now that I'm 72 one day a month my husband and I take a 4-Hour road trip and travel about 300 miles, that's monthly. When I worked I live 10 mi from the job I was also on call 3 to 4 times a week
Longest I've driven by myself. I drive from my hometown in TN to Philadelphia, PA which is around 500 miles. I drove from home to Philly one Saturday; drove from Philly to home the next Saturday; and back to Philly the next.
Remember we went to property hunt. We were considering moving.
We went from extreme southern Wisconsin to the very north of Montana. It was about 1, 450 miles. The drive was beautiful.
I also drive down every couple of years to Florida to visit my sisters. That trip is right around 1, 250 miles.
We Americans don't think it is odd to drive those distances for vacations or family trips.
And I drive 60 to 70 miles regularly since the closest large city to me is 60 miles away. Just a shopping day
Size doesn't matter? I THOUGHT THIS WAS AMERICA!!
The longest drive I have made was Tampa Florida to Reno, Nevada; 2,756 miles, in 2.5 days driven with 2 drivers on 8-10 hour shifts.
The longest drive I've been on was going from my town in Pennsylvania to Masonville, Colorado. That was 1,626 miles or about 2,617 kilometers. Which took 2 days to complete
The Inland Empire map is a little deceiving. Riverside (my hometown), San Bernardino, Colton, Norco, Corona, Rancho Cucamonga, etc is pretty big, but that red blob that is the county of San Bernardino (which does not include Riverside by the way, that is Riverside County), is almost all empty Mojave Desert out to the Colorado River and Nevada border. Even the stretch of I-10 out to the Arizona border that has Palm Springs and Indio (Coachella for you music fans) is Riverside County
My longest road trip in the states is around 4000 miles round trip.
And lots of places here named after founders homes back there. My town is named after Rathdrum Ireland!
In 2021 I took a cross country road trip. My trip lasted 12 days, I drove through 10 states and drove a little over 5,300 miles.
I live in the state of Iowa. I have driven to Memphis & Atlanta from Des Moines Iowa to Atlanta, Georgia. It's over 900 miles, and it takes 18hours ,if you're by yourself, to complete it.
Went fishing with my dad and brother in Canada once. 1200 miles over 26 hours. Great trip.
i live in the Ashland Kentucky area, and iv'e driven multiple times to go visit my daughters in the Lake Charles Louisiana area.
and the actual point to point distance on my preferred route is 1055 miles one way, takes 15 hrs if you dont stop anywhere!
but with stops for food, gas, rest, etc, it usually took us 20 hrs one way! and then if you run into construction, detours, or accidents it could take longer.
I have driven from Phoenix Az to Riverside Ca which was about 320+ miles one-way over 5 hours of driving
The US has an Air Force base (Eglin) that’s half the size of Rhode Island. The base alone is 724 square miles of land with a significant amount more in water and air space
Longest drive, 2,695 miles one way from Phoenix, AZ to Concord, NH. Also many 3030 mile roundtrips from Concord, NH to St. Petersburg, FL
I went to high school in Barstow, San Bernardino County, California. At the time, it was the largest school district in the Contiguous United States. A student in my class had to travel more 140 miles one way to school.
1200 miles one way from Colorado to Kentucky. About 20 hours of driving, stopping only for gas. And no one else in my household can drive so it's all on me. Then I turn around and do it all over again to go home.
Just drove a 2,000 mile road trip from Texas to Colorado and back in 6 days. I must say, even through Texas, the longest stretch, our country is beautiful!!
So for several years the distance from my parents' house and my post college home was about 90 miles one way which I took at least once a month and it was nothing. The longest i drove in one sitting aside from gas and food was about 700 miles straight. It would have been the full 811 miles, but I had a bit of car trouble so I needed to get my timing belt replaced, so I had a two hour break.
I drive 1800 miles every other year. From Oregon to Missouri. I live in Oregon and my son lives in Kansas City Missouri. 3 day drive. I Love this drive it's Beautiful
My wife and i used to drive from Florida to New Mexico and back on a 3 day weekend to drop/pick up the kids from grandparents. Each way was about 1300 miles. One would drive the other would sleep. Drive straight through.
I drove from Phoenix Arizona to NYC. Took me about 4 days. I drove from Atlanta Ga to Phoenix. That took the 3 days, the last day we drove 14 hours straight. From Amarillo TX to Phoenix. I will never do that again. Now here in Phoenix, where I live, we can get to San Diego or LA in about 6 hours and Las Vegas in about 4 to 4 1/2 hours. Easy.
My longest single-day drive with only brief rest stops: 686 miles from Baltimore, Maryland to Rochester, New York and back. This was when I was attending the University of Maryland. It was easily over 12 hours of driving. I haven't done anything like it since.
I once drove 33hrs straight, from Nevada to Michigan, stopping only for gas and coffee. The distance was nowhere near the length of the US! By the way, I don’t ever want to to that again!
Longest I've driven was in a snow storm going from Washington State to Oklahoma, just about 2,000 miles! When I lived in Hawaii, I also didn't realize how huge the US mainland was.
2:15 3 years ago I threw everything in my car and drove away from florida. I drove 10 states and 6,000 miles in 25 days. Settled in Colorado.👍
670 miles from Cleveland, Ohio to Woodstock, New Hampshire. Took around 12 hrs with stops.
My longest road trip was over 3k miles in each direction. New York to Portland Oregon, and back.