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Whats the Longest Road Trip you have ever done?

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Its probly from reading a book called Long Way Round about Ewan McGregor and his buddy Charley Borman riding two BMW bikes around the world from London to New York. I also recently picked up the DVD of the series they did for Bravo



Awesome book and series! I just read/watched those.

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and Its givin me the bug to get a bike and go do a trip to Seatle or something. lol



Well you know you've got friends in Seattle. :)
As for my longest road trip? The one I did with livendive and D22369 in April just *seemed* like the longest one:D, but really, it was the trip I did in May and June. Seattle through Oregon to Northern California to Eloy back to Southern California, up through Nevada and Utah to Idaho, and finally back to Seattle. It included 30 jumps at 6 dropzones (and lots of DZ.commers met!), 5 days on the Middle Fork of the Salmon river. Total of 4,800 miles over 3 1/2 weeks. Whew!
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Best roadtrip I took was just after I graduated college. Decided at my graduation party with 2 of my friends to head out that night. Left my mom's in LI that night at about 10PM. Made it to my mom's summer house in PA for the night. Then drove up to Niagra, around the top of Great Lakes through Canada. Came back into the US through Michigan and then finished the circle around the lakes to get back home to NYC. We had no plan, just an Atlas to guide us. :)
Ahhh the memories... makes me want to do something like that again.

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hmm lets see
been around Oz twice so aprox 20,000kms each trip
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Been from Perth Western Australia across the big pool to LA (by plane)
Then LA across to Miami, then up through the Carolinas and across to Kentucky, then up to Chicago, then across to North & South Dakota and Montana then Seatle, Oregon San Fran then back to LA (ALL BY ROAD):)B|B| that was back in 1999. Last year I only Went from Miami up and across to Nawlins & back again:)
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Well, Upndownshop and I zig zagged our way from Florida to California and back last year. In 4 months we hit 21 states and drove 85,000 miles, or something like that. :D

J? You there? You have all of the numbers. How far did we drive? ALOT!!!!!!!!! :S:D

It was an AWESOME trip and I am so glad I got to do it with him. I would have killed anyone else if I had to be confined to that truck for that long. :D:D:D If that's not a test for the future, I don't know what is!! It looks like we passed, right Honey? :)

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My two longest trips ever taken, and both were solos:

In 1990, several months after I abruptly left college for home, leaving a few items behind that I couldn't take with me on the bus, I had to make a trip to collect the remaining items from friends in dorm rooms before the end of the school year, plus items I left at an uncle's house, and more at a college friend's home which luckily was right along the way. I left Huntsville, AL to go straight to Rochester, NY (sleeping in the back of the camper shell covered truck bed for a couple of hours during the night). Then I went to my uncle's near Syracuse. Spent the night there. Then drove back toward home, stopping in Columbus, OH to pick up last few items before home. I don't remember the total miles driven, but it took me 3 days, so it was probably about 2300 miles.

The other longest trip was for a family reunion for Christmas in 1992 in the Florida Keys. I left Huntsville Christmas Day right after dinner with my folks (they were flying the next day) and took off for the Keys. I drove nearly non-stop, only stopping once when I was nodding off in the middle of the morning the next day somewhere near Lake Wales. I made it to Islamorada in the Keys, 25 hours after leaving home. During the week-long vacation I made a day trip to Key West. Then drove back home, really taking a big risk with a huge tombstone drawn on paper taped to the back of the camper shell access door. On it read: R.I.P. Miami Hurricanes, 34 - 13, Jan. 1, 1993, ROLL TIDE! Man did I get a lot of dirty looks and birdies going through the Miami metro area on the highways. Glad that was all I got. B|
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Straight through? Columbus to Lake Wales. Columbus to Raeford a few times, Columbus to Atlatna a few times. Those are each about 12 hours. I've done the Upstate NY- Columbus and the NYC to CMH thing too many times to count. Worst was the CMH at 6 pm Friday to Upstate at about 11 hours stright through the night. Sleep Saturday and then Sunday at 1 return home. 22 hours in the car in 3 days alone would'nt be too bad if PA actually had decent radio. If I'd do it again.... XM or Sirus.
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Well, Upndownshop and I zig zagged our way from Florida to California and back last year. In 4 months we hit 21 states and drove 85,000 miles, or something like that. :D

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18,500 miles:P 85,000 I would never be able to stand up again. women I tell ya!!:)

J? You there? You have all of the numbers. How far did we drive? ALOT!!!!!!!!! :S:D

It was an AWESOME trip and I am so glad I got to do it with him. I would have killed anyone else if I had to be confined to that truck for that long. :D:D:D If that's not a test for the future, I don't know what is!! It looks like we passed, right Honey? :)


I think we hit 20 DZ'z and 15 boogies. It was a great time, cant tell ya everything we did, ;) but it was a great time. We might pull off another from March to November this year. Hmmm which event do we hit??
I think I will hit 1 million miles I have driven in my time:S:S



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I think I will hit 1 million miles I have driven in my time:S:S



That would be an awesome achievement! I am somewhere over 500,000 miles driven in my life so far and I've only driven for 22 years, with a couple of significant gaps of no driving in there too. Had a stint driving for Steak-Out (think Domino's Pizza, but with steaks instead), and another time drove an 85 mile roundtrip commute to work for 6 years.
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I think I will hit 1 million miles I have driven in my time:S:S



That would be an awesome achievement! I am somewhere over 500,000 miles driven in my life so far and I've only driven for 22 years, with a couple of significant gaps of no driving in there too. Had a stint driving for Steak-Out (think Domino's Pizza, but with steaks instead), and another time drove an 85 mile roundtrip commute to work for 6 years.




Been driving for 23 years this year. I have always been in "traveling" sales so thats how I did it. I only have the upper east coast to hit (maybe 6) and I would have hit all the intercontinental states.

Think I will knock those out this year.



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Been driving for 23 years this year. I have always been in "traveling" sales so thats how I did it. I only have the upper east coast to hit (maybe 6) and I would have hit all the intercontinental states.

Think I will knock those out this year.



The Ultimate Road Warrior I think. B|

I've touched every state east of the Mississippi River by car except VT, as well as CA, TX, LA, AR, MO as far as I remember. I drove in CA only after flying in from back home, ditto for Hawaii.
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From Spokane, WA to Biloxi, MS in 42 hours, with a 2 hour stop for sleep.

Spokane, WA to Fayetteville, NC, with a 17' U-Haul with my 1100cc Shadow ACE in the back with the rest of my life's possessions, and a trailer hauling my car at that point in time. I distinctly remember stopping at a gas station outside of Ellsworth AFB, SD and noticing that the car had nearly jumped the trailer from all of the rolling hills on the freeway. :S
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when i was little my family and i took over a month long road trip all around the country in a motorhome. but that might not count since i was so young. besides that the summer that i graduated high school (1.5 years ago) 2 friends and i loaded up our dirtbikes and head to oklahoma to ride the sand dunes and that was a 16 hour drive one way just to stay there for 3 days of riding. the sucky part was i took a solid 3 story fall only 2 hours into riding and broke my foot and tore a bunch of stuff in my other leg and all through my abdomen so i was done. still fun. i don't know if anyone else on here rides but definitely go to the dunes. they're dangerous but fun. the first jump we found of the day was around 120ft table top. it's crazy out there

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Well, Upndownshop and I zig zagged our way from Florida to California and back last year. In 4 months we hit 21 states and drove 85,000 miles, or something like that. :D

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18,500 miles:P 85,000 I would never be able to stand up again. women I tell ya!!:)



See? I knew I was wrong. :P:D

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For the last couple weeks I'v been getting the bug to do a long road trip on my own. Its probly from reading a book called Long Way Round about Ewan McGregor and his buddy Charley Borman riding two BMW bikes around the world from London to New York. I also recently picked up the DVD of the series they did for Bravo and Its givin me the bug to get a bike and go do a trip to Seatle or something. lol


Cant go wrong with a Beemer in my book;)

Longest for me Boca Raton to Golden in 2.5 days:S

2005 winner of the "Iron Butt" rally covered 11,000+ miles on a Honda ST 1300 in 11 days :S

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when i was little my family and i took over a month long road trip



Oh, yeah, that reminds me ... when I was 8 and my family was moving from Greece back to the states, we took a month and drove all around Europe...








...in a Ford Pinto. I think I win. :D

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The longest road trip wasn't actually that long, just really frustrating. We drove from Pennsylvania to Atlanta, stayed there for a few hours...and then turned around and came right back. My car died in Virginia and we had to have it towed back to Pennsylvania.

Loooooong looong road trip.
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Lawton, OK to Charlotte, NC. :|....thats around 1200 miles....and I thought that was a LONG trip :D.



I bet it took you ALL DAY just to get across Tennessee too! :D
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Out of the major driving trips I've done (Wisconsin to California or from California to Florida or from Florida to Wisconsin), I'd guess the one from California to Florida would be the longest but I'm too lazy to figure out the mileage on those trips.
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Been driving for 23 years this year. I have always been in "traveling" sales so thats how I did it. I only have the upper east coast to hit (maybe 6) and I would have hit all the intercontinental states.

Think I will knock those out this year.



The Ultimate Road Warrior I think. B|

I've touched every state east of the Mississippi River by car except VT, as well as CA, TX, LA, AR, MO as far as I remember. I drove in CA only after flying in from back home, ditto for Hawaii.



Well I am sure you will take care of Texas when you come to the SkyFest Boogie in July....Right!!!:P:P I know, shameless plug.... sue me , I'm not deaf...:)



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I've done Denver to Chicago just for the hell of it. Tampa to New Orleans. I've done Chicago to Tampa and back too many times.

But my favorite was sitting in the apartment and roommate said he was hungry. So we drove to a nice place to get a burger 100 miles away in Milwaukee.

Would waking up on Monday and deciding I wanted to go to Mexico count? The Friday after that thought I was drinking a beer on the beach. Just wondering if taking a flight like that counts.
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