Family Road Trip

Belly35

Belly35

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What is the longest road trip you have ever taken (passenger or driver)?
From, To and Back (mileage if possible):
Make, Model of Vehicle and Date of Trip

Wife and I and good friends (husband and wife also) two week planned trip. Great time and great memories
Canton to Quebec City to Bar Harbor Me, to New York City , back to Canton around 2500 miles (2 week road trip)
1996 Winnebago Dodge ? Class C 22 foot Motorhome Date July 1997
 
 
When I was single I headed west to Colorado Springs where I flew in a hot air balloon over the continental divide. I read about it in a Cincinnati newspaper so that's what inspired me to do it. My younger brother traveled with me to Missouri where we attended his girlfriend's sister's wedding. He didn't go on but went back to Cincinnati with some college friends. I did the trip back in just under 25 hours non-stop. I'm glad I had taken an Psych class in college that talked about sleep deprivation. When I finally got home I started hallucinating and realized it because of lack of sleep. It was a very interesting evening. LOL
 
MoeDude said:
I did the trip back in just under 25 hours non-stop. I'm glad I had taken an Psych class in college that talked about sleep deprivation. When I finally got home I started hallucinating and realized it because of lack of sleep.
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You don't start hallucinating after 25 hours of not sleeping.
 
NY to Laska 3600 one-way. 5-6 days there, don't remember exactly. I'd gotten in my head my upcoming trip overseas was going to be my last and I wanted to get my 50th state in. 2 1/2 weeks stay, then a quick return before my flight. Musk Ox lol. Met some good people. Got up to the Artic Circle. Probably my best memory, Wrangell-St. Elias, turning onto a dirt road (in my two wheel drive, small Nissan pick-up) trudging slowly over a dirt covered railroad track to Ketchigan (old mining town), worrying about the shakes and shivers, tires and railroad spikes and the occasional bear walking down the middle when I got passed fast by a two wheel drive, small Nissan pickup.... driven by a girl. I hit the gas pedal. Turns out, that's how you smooth out the bumps.
 
Prop Joe said:
You don't start hallucinating after 25 hours of not sleeping.
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Dreaming with your eyes open - same thing.

By plane - Columbus to Israel, twice. Just over 6000 miles

Been to Hawaii twice - 4500 miles. The second time I left Mrs Zunardo in Los Angeles while I went on. She and our two year-old went up to Sacramento, then she drove back to San Diego and picked me up there.

Longest trip by car? Cbus to Pensacola in 1970 by way of Mississippi, then up the east coast, WV and PA, and home. Dad had the dealer install A/C under the dash of our fairly new car before we left, made it very bearable. Five years later he traded it in for a new model, but with no A/C. No more Florida trips until 1981, when his next new car did have AC.
 
In 1999 me and a group of friends drove from Middletown to Raliegh NC to see some girls and then from Raliegh down the coast and across aligator alley in Florida to Marco Island where my friends family owned a condo. We were in a Grand Cherokee. Drove straight through on the way home and it was a loooong drive after a week of heavy drinking and other extracurricular activities.
 
Family trip in 1970's from CinCinnati to Grand Canyon plus all the stop between here and there. Dodge City and St Loius Arch ect ..

Person trip from CinCinnati to fort lauderdale daytona beach and ending in Key West . Bonus meet three girls on the trip..
 
Troy to Vegas and then L.A. Drove there and flew back. Family friends moved to the outskirts of L.A.- I was happy to ride along. It was actually a really cool drive.
 
Don't know if this fits here or not. Some years ago, on the afternoon show of WTVN(I think) here in the Columbus area, one of the DJs told the story of his family starting off on a vacation trip The kids started acting up from the get-go and he said alright. that's it, we're going back home. They did and gloom came over the scene. The next Saturday he said Okay, let's try this again. No problems at all. Little angels in the back seat. Of course the little darlings didn't know that the trip had always been planned for the second weekend.
 
Irwin,Pa to Idaho Falls,ID and back for my oldest sisters wedding. I’d have to check the mileage but it was early 60s and the highway system wasn’t fully developed. I think it took us 4 days to get there and maybe 5 back as we did Yellowstone. Just looked it up probably about 4200 miles with the Yellowstone jog. Also as an adult Vancouver Wa to Mason area in a u- haul and pulling a car. 2388 miles.
 
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From home in NW Ohio to Key West. In a Ford Escort with no AC. In August.

Trip down was all I75. Back home was 95/26/77/70/33. Passed thru Homestead, FL on the trip home 12 days before hurricane Andrew.
 
This was for work in a 90 dodge van. Left Ohio did a 1 weak job just west of New Orleans went on to Lubbock TX for two days. The van would not run right especially with the air on and finally limped into a town off I-10 called desert center on the day they broke their all time temperature record right around 120. Spent two weeks on a job south of Santa Cruz California then me and one other guy drove straight back in less than 34 hours. We switched drivers every tank and averaged 74 miles per hour even with the stops, detours and one flat tire.
 
Longest non-stop car trips: Kettering to Sanibel Island, Florida or Kettering to Bastrop, Texas (near Austin). Both trips were around 1100-1200 miles.

Most memorable: Kettering to Daytona Beach, Florida in a Chevy Vega...I would not recommend a 1975 Vega for a long, hot highway trip!
 
How about a trip I didn't go on?

Dad, mom, sister and brother drove to Texas one summer. I didn't go because I had to work. They must have made good time coming home because I wasn't expecting them so soon and they caught me and my girlfriend having sex on the couch.
 
I was in college home for winter break. One night a bunch of friends were partying and we decided to drive to Niagara Falls. We get there to see the falls and there was snow banks in the parking lot. I was looking down on the falls when I realized I was on a bank of snow and the railing was behind me! Wow! It was very late so we found a gas station that had postcards and I bought one to show that we were there and we drove back. Don't know how many miles we traveled, but it was fun.
 
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