Bakersfield,CA to Houston. 1660 miles. 24 hours. I was on my way from seeing the Dead in SF. After the third concert, I left immediately after the show and made it to Bakersfield. The next day I decided to drive do some camping in AZ. I stopped to get gas outside of Phoenix, I was going to spend a couple days at the Grand Canyon. I called home and found out that school was starting a week earlier than I originally thought, so I jumped back in the Jeep and hightailed it to Houston. I starting seeing things at 5am on I-10 between El Paso and San Antonio. Worthless stretch of road. Slept 6 hours in Houston while my mom did laundry, ate some Lupe's, and drove 12 hours to Nashville. Horrible, horrible three days of driving. Total distance: 289+1660+856 in 3 days (but I slept 6 hours between legs)
I drove from Houston to Atlanta last week...the drive wasn't bad at all. My longest drive is from Houston to Chicago.
I did Tampa Bay to Houston once. I think its about 950 miles give or take, and it took around 17 - 18 hours. Like Clutch, I was going to stop in the Big Easy, but just decided to push on and get home a day earlier. I love road trips. In my time in the states, my wife and I basically drove the entire country. The amount of things to see is quite simply overwhelming.
done that with my parents before. from riyadh to makkah, and from dammam to jeddah, LONG ASSS TRIPS. never drove myself in saudi, but my dad never went under 140 km/hr taif is a nice place no doubt...
clutch is close to h-town now? hmmm... i'm sure the real reason he's here in town is to check out the busstop stalkers team at the post oak ymca next monday.
Brownsville Tx to Mobile Alabama--13 hours this summer on the way to Florida. I wasn't solo though. I has the family with me, but everyone was alseep most of the ride.
Houston to EL PASO. How long to meet a stranger with whom I chatted on IRC? 13 hours non-stop. Got 1 ticket in San Marcos for not obeying 2 cops who previously warned me to keep it under 80. I just got back from San Antone (Sea World and ZOO). Dang kids! They make the trip last FOREVER . Thank goodness for BARNEY's CDs. I drove my family back and forth from Orlando once. We made pit stops, though... the kiddos had physiological needs... about 23 hours. My next road trip: Houston to Los angueles. Pit stops: The Grand Canyon, Las Vegas.
Houston to Cleveland, OH non-stop. Forgot the mileage and time but it was definately more than 2,000 miles and over 25 hours. The kicker is that I did this when i was 15 years old
Sacramento to Dallas....24 hours of driving through mountains, desert, and with no spare tire. I got stuck in CA on 9/11. I was supposed to fly home on the 12th. I just kept the car and changed it to a one way.
What were you doing in Dan Fogelberg's neck of the woods? Skiing Wolf Creek? I drove from Copper Mouintain to about 4 hours north of Austin. By the time we hit North Texas it was night and a spring blizzard...I've never been so tired when I finally gave the wheel to one of my buddies.
heh...thats where I was born...from what I remember, nice place. Havent been back since the mid-60s I rarely drive out of town solo..and that was only to Galveston. did the Housaton to Chicago drive a few years back...but the wife and kid were with me.
Yeah, we were boarding at Wolf Creek ~ my buddy who rode up there with me decided to stay an extra week, unfortunately I had to work. ________ On the way back I was on the highway heading through New Mexico - I was driving pretty fast probably 80-85 average. Out of nowhere an 18 wheeler passes me going at least 90 mph - he's driving really bad running up on peoples bumpers if they are too slow to move out of his way immediately - etc. He even pulls on the inside shoulder (throwing up rocks and dirt) a couple of times acting (I guess) like he is going to pass them on the freaking shoulder - he's totally nuts. Whatever highway we were on had a decent amount of traffic so he couldn't just totally haul ass. After 20-30 minutes of this I have to turn off onto some barren stretch of UFO infested highway - zero traffic. Well the 18-wheeler is still in front and he turns off - he's taking the same route. So after the slow down for the exit he hits the straight away and boom he's off ~ 90, 100, 105, 110, 115 - I was driving a Civic that had a governor at 118 - he continues to pull away. He must have been going 125 mph in that thing because he kept fading off into the distance ~ I was not believing what I was seeing. I had no idea those things would go so fast for an extended period of time . I started slowing down to a normal speed pretty quickly, but I could still see him from quite a distance because he had all those x-mas looking lights all over the trailer. This was all really exciting so i'm not sure how much time passed before - BAM - cop nails him out in the middle of the desert. The cop’s lights seemed to be about 100 times brighter than normal because it was so dark. That fool had to be going between 115-125 mph when he got clocked ~ I guess he went to jail, but who knows.
I did the same trip but it took me 54 hours. Non. Stop. It was in the dead of winter and crossing the Cascades and the Rockies was a b****. 54 hours with not a wink of sleep. I stopped to fill up and that's it. I was a wreck when I got home.
D*mn bizarre ... but if you took the route through Antonito CO ... it doesn't surprise me. Maybe it was the remoteness and the altitude, but that road seemed odd to me. I used to drive it a lot from Alamosa to Santa Fe. (Who names a town Ojo Caliente?) Maybe the driver saw some of those famous lights in the sky?
Houston to Boston was my longest trip straight. Man, I slept for 2 days after that one. I've also done Charlotte to Houston twice and Charlotte to San Antonio.
The longest solo drive was from Charlotte, NC to Houston. I drove straight through. My ex and I drove from Kenosha, WI to Houston straight through one time. That was pretty brutal.
