I just drove it. 15 hours. Anyone else had loooong road trip experiences?

12/21/2007 2:52:00 PM

Raleigh to Walnut Creek, CA. Split in 4 days. Drove all of I-40 and then some of I-5.





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12/21/2007 2:52:41 PM

And Chicago to Raleigh.

It's not a ride I enjoy being on.

(zorthage is from Chicago, and he likes to drive. We visit his dad a couple times a year)

[Edited on December 21, 2007 at 2:53 PM. Reason : his brother, I, and him are flying up sunday.]

12/21/2007 2:52:53 PM

DC to Charlotte, gonna do it tomorrow

it's gonna take like a million hours

12/21/2007 3:05:22 PM

Missoula to Boston in 3 days. Of course I went out of my way to see a historic site in Nebraska.

For the record, there are actually two Fort Kearneys. The one in Nebraska is not the cool one.

12/21/2007 3:21:06 PM

Had to google map "Missoula" to see where the fuck it was.

12/21/2007 4:24:01 PM

Where you be in Chicago?

12/21/2007 4:32:07 PM

I've done Chicago to Raleigh.. and St Louis to Raleigh, and NC to northern NY and back and NC to some other northern as hell state that I don't remember the name of and back.

12/21/2007 4:37:38 PM

I did L.A. to D.C. and back. The way there we didn't stop except for food and gas...and then for like 3 hours when I was literally falling asleep at the wheel in the middle of Mizzou.

12/21/2007 4:40:42 PM

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"Raleigh to Walnut Creek, CA. Split in 4 days. Drove all of I-40 and then some of I-5."

That is awesome. every time i leave wilmington and see the Barstow, CA 2552 miles i always think about passing Raleigh and keep driving till i hit CA.

Did you start in wilmington just so you could say you made it across on I40??

12/21/2007 4:44:01 PM

I just drove from Los Angeles to Reston, VA about two months ago. Interstate 40 through Oklahoma and Arkansas FTMFL

12/21/2007 4:45:15 PM

probably the longest i've done was northern maine to south florida or possibly texas to belize. tons of other 10-12 hour trips from nc to other places.

12/21/2007 4:51:34 PM

raleigh to new orleans...fall break 2005...left that thursday night at ~10pm

Mr. Joshua, what were you doing in Missoula?...just curious


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12/21/2007 5:24:24 PM

meh, i drive back and forth from raleigh to bethlehem, pa to go home. that's only ~8 hours, though.

12/21/2007 5:25:55 PM

why the hell would you drive to belize?

12/21/2007 5:25:56 PM

Raleigh to Portland once.

There are some sketch ass bars in Wyoming


I think quasi-metro pilgrimshoes skeeved out the regulars..

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12/21/2007 5:28:55 PM

i will get a cross country trip under my belt next summer

12/21/2007 5:29:46 PM

^^^no particular reason. just a vacation/road trip through mexico.

12/21/2007 5:30:53 PM

haha, i gotta try that one day

12/21/2007 5:32:05 PM

Wilmington to Barstow on route 40, took a detour to vegas then to san diego then up to colorado and home on route 70. I think about 7000 miles.

So yes.

12/21/2007 5:42:10 PM

Laredo TX to Mississauga ON.....24.5 hrs

12/21/2007 6:24:17 PM

Chicago to Raleigh (when I moved here). In August. With no A/C.

12/21/2007 6:48:05 PM

Quote :

"I just drove it. 15 hours. "

must have been some traffic or stayed overnight, thats a 13 hour drive


done Little Rock to Raleigh, thats a boring drive

12/21/2007 7:34:28 PM

I had a friend working at a ranch near Missoula and I took a few weeks off and headed out that way. I spent about a week in Colorado then went to Greenough, MT, about 40 minutes northeast of Missoula. I ended up living in the basement of a crossroads bar in the middle of nowhere for a month. Man did I drink a lot that summer.

12/21/2007 8:23:59 PM

wow, you picked a bad day to travel I guess.

when I left at the end of may I prob woke up at 5:30, was on I-40W past durham by about 6:15 and after charleston, ohio, and indianapolis got to the tristate at about 7:00 CST (8:30), it took me essentially 14 hrs (with a few stops in there.. I think I might have went to mcdonald's twice) and I was goign to schaumburg, not chicago chicago. shit driving home from work today was AWFUL, I can't imagine how a long trip was.

still, it felt really surreal that I just drove from cary to chicagoland in one period of being awake



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12/21/2007 8:29:16 PM

I did Charlotte to Chicago and back for Lollapalooza in 2006. It wasn't too bad since two of us split it up but just sitting for ~15 hours is annoying as hell.

12/21/2007 8:35:49 PM

damn 15 hours to chicago is not bad



ps- my parents did chicago to raleigh in january 85, no heat in the moving truck, while my mom was preggers with me

talk about uphill in the snow both ways

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12/21/2007 8:40:23 PM

I did raleigh to chicago too. Took about 13-15 hours

12/21/2007 9:42:30 PM

done Rome, NY to the coast of FL a little north of Tampa

12/21/2007 9:48:06 PM

why were you in rome ny? i'm from utica.

12/21/2007 9:49:58 PM

^ Well then you probably know nothing about steamed hams.

12/21/2007 9:55:59 PM

Philly to NC - leave @ 8am in the morn'

gonna love that holiday traffic in DC

12/21/2007 10:09:01 PM

I'm in Mt. Prospect. It's a NW suburb of Chicago. It took 15 hours because of traffic in NC and the 2.5 hours worth of rain I had to go through. I'd say 15 isn't bad because my Dad did it once and it took him 18.

12/21/2007 10:41:49 PM

ive done raleigh to breckenridge, co in ~24 hours with two friends

kansas SUCKS

12/21/2007 10:42:33 PM

^agree

12/21/2007 10:50:28 PM

Chicago to New Orleans - took I-55 all the way in. The only time I diverted was to take downtown bypasses (such as the one in Memphis). 14 hours total,, and that's because we stopped for 30 minutes to look for my boy's iPod.

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12/21/2007 10:52:42 PM

Raleigh to LA (I-10 most of the way)...then to Oregon and back to Raleigh. 15 days, but it was intentionally long. And awesome.

12/21/2007 11:26:59 PM

Randolph Co to NOVA about 5hrs

just moved to NOVA this past Oct, plan to be there for a couple years

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12/21/2007 11:31:29 PM

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"Philly to NC - leave @ 8am in the morn' gonna love that holiday traffic in DC "

pick up 301 after the harbor tunnel until richmond, skip dc and baltimore. that's what i do anyway.

12/21/2007 11:32:56 PM

Raleigh to Maine. We stopped a lot of places in between. I was little and don't really remember it. We had one of those cool dodge caravan mini vans that had the sliding door only on one side. my parents took the two middle seats out so we could have room to lie down or play games. if we were good for a certain amount of time we'd get a disney tape to listen to.

12/21/2007 11:34:02 PM

actually jk i think on that same trip we went to Canada too. wtf were my parents thinking.

12/21/2007 11:36:30 PM

i've done raleigh to orlando to dallas back to raleigh...Also did raleigh to Toronto

12/22/2007 12:07:37 AM

Almost did Raleigh to Chicago, fucking flight got canceled today.

Longest I have done is slightly shorter than that, about 750 miles in a day.

I will be doing more of them for sure. I fucking hate airlines and them shitting on me.

12/22/2007 12:28:21 AM

Raleigh to Boston for the 2005 State @ BC football game. Drove around 12 hours to my friends house about an hour above NYC. Then drove another 3 hours and some change the next day to Boston.

12/22/2007 12:46:53 AM

^ my friend lives 30 minutes outside boston and it only takes him like 11 hours to get home. i'd say that you fucked up somewhere, but i think it's just because he gets cranked out on adderall and drives all night and probably hauls ass through the entire state of virginia

12/22/2007 2:56:17 AM

i made it from raleigh to burlington in like 39 minutes once

12/22/2007 2:59:32 AM

cheraw, sc to raleigh (120 miles) in 90 minutes--and we're not talking interstate

12/22/2007 3:01:53 AM

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"why were you in rome ny? i'm from utica."

I grew up about 20 min outside of Rome in Stittville.

12/22/2007 12:09:19 PM

^x4 well we left in the early afternoon after our friend got out of her last class that friday. we hit some terrible DC traffic and terrible NYC/NJ traffic. i mean in D.C. it took us an hour to go like 5 miles. also we stopped for 30 minutes at a Cracker Barrel in Maryland to get some dinner.

Also we had to drive an hour north of NYC to stay at my old roommate's house.

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12/22/2007 3:41:20 PM