Americans. Is a 6-7 hour drive nothing to you ??

[Scott McD]

Think the longest/furthest i'very ever had to drive is 3 hrs, maybe 3 hrs 30mins at most. Got a 6 possibly 7 hour drive on Wednesday and although it won't bother me i can't help but think if I was on a flight for 6hrs i could be getting some glorious sunshine rather than more of the same here simply visiting relatives in England lol.

I know some of you guys clock up some crazy mileage.

Everything we need here is very local. Even going into Glasgow centre is no more than a 20min drive usually...

[sarettah]

I think for most Americans a 6-7 hour drive is a fairly long drive.

Most of the population are near to urban areas. For me, I am 2 minutes away from a convenience store, Walmart, Lowes (Hardware) and a bunch of restaurants. Since I got out of the Navy I have not had to commute more than 20 minutes to get to a place of work.

With that said, I do enjoy driving and a couple of times a year do trips that encompass anywhere from 40 to 100 hours total driving time in a trip. I am in the middle of the country so the East Coast is about 1200 miles or so East of me and the West Coast is about 1700 miles West of me. Rocky Mountains are a 8 hour drive west, Smokey Mountains about a 9 hour drive East. Canada 12 hours North, Mexico 16 hours south.

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[BaldBastard]

One of the depressing things living in Aus is when you leave Sydney on a plane heading north, and notice 6 hours later your still flying over Australia.

[Scott McD]

Originally Posted by MrBaldBastard

One of the depressing things living in Aus is when you leave Sydney on a plane heading north, and notice 6 hours later your still flying over Australia.

Yeah that would suck...

[PR_Glen]

road trips are kind of a thing in north america... its not uncommon for people to do 7 hour road trips or even much longer. I know far too many people who actually drive from the toronto area to florida every year, which is insane to me, more so because its such a damn cheap flight and only just over 3 hours instead of 30....

[pimpmaster9000]

I do 4-5 hour mountain bike rides like its nothing...I guess I could go 7 hours but would have to stop to eat after 4-5 hours and then continue...

[just a punk]

Originally Posted by MrBaldBastard

One of the depressing things living in Aus is when you leave Sydney on a plane heading north, and notice 6 hours later your still flying over Australia.

Only 6 hours? That's not serious

[Rochard]

I live in Northern California, but we travel to Southern California often and have since I first moved here. California is a "long" state, about 700 miles. The trip from Sacramento to LA is about 400 - 450 miles.

My wife has family down there, and when we were dating - twenty-five years ago or so - it was a great three or four day weekend. We would spend mornings with her family and then spend our days in LA and Hollywood. Usually we made this trip once a month, or sometimes twice a month. We've been doing this for twenty-five years now, so long we know all of the exits on the freeway, etc...

I also like to drive to Vegas from where I live. I drive up through Reno and then down into Nevada. It's an amazing drive. Four hundred miles of nothing. You drive through little Indian reservations, and the largest arms depot in the country - miles and miles of bunkers.

I love to drive.

[baddog]

I take a significant road trip every year (3 weeks or more). 6 hours will get me to Rochead's house, or Vegas and back.

[RedFred]

Originally Posted by baddog

I take a significant road trip every year (3 weeks or more). 6 hours will get me to Rochead's house, or Vegas and back.

[CurrentlySober]

I do a six hour walk every fortnight, in order to sign on...

[Rochard]

Originally Posted by baddog

I take a significant road trip every year (3 weeks or more). 6 hours will get me to Rochead's house, or Vegas and back.

Motorcycle or car?

[sperbonzo]

We drive about 4.5 hours up to northern florida about once a month to visit friends and a couple of times a year we go about twice that far. But as for normal driving we rarely drive over an hour or so to go to some events on the weekends.

[baddog]

Originally Posted by Rochard

Motorcycle or car?

These days it is just me and Buddy, so the car.

As far as motorcycle rides, I have ridden to Daytona Beach and back (3 weeks), LA to Sturgis, SD about 10 times (usually 7-10 days); as far north as the Oregon border and as far south as Loredo, BC.

My oldest bike (1986) has about 150,000 miles on it; all mine.

[crockett]

Originally Posted by Scott McD

Think the longest/furthest i'very ever had to drive is 3 hrs, maybe 3 hrs 30mins at most. Got a 6 possibly 7 hour drive on Wednesday and although it won't bother me i can't help but think if I was on a flight for 6hrs i could be getting some glorious sunshine rather than more of the same here simply visiting relatives in England lol.

I know some of you guys clock up some crazy mileage.

Everything we need here is very local. Even going into Glasgow centre is no more than a 20min drive usually...

America is a big country and things are very spread out the further you go west the more spread out stuff is until you hit Cali.

Even though its spread out there is still lots of fully developed cities/towns in between.

Its really hard to compare Europe to any country in North America. It's like when people in Europe rag on Americans for not having passports..

In the US I can drive 3-4 days and still be in the US. In Europe you can drive 30 minutes and be in another country. In the US you could quite literally travel all your life and never see every town.

The closest thing to Europe in the US so far as travel goes would be New England or perhaps the NY to DC areas.. Lots of major cities or small states all packed together so you can go from one state/city to the next in a short amount of time.

Russia doesn't even compare to the US either, while it's big, it's not very well developed like the US.

I mean think of this.. The GDP of just California is almost 2 times that of Russia. We have states like Cali, Texas, NY have bigger GDPs on their own individually and are bigger than some world powers.

Oh and for the record back when I was truck driving I used to drive between 2.5-.3.5k miles a week. I was doing over 10k miles a month.

[AdultKing]

Shortest routes to a capital city in order.

24 h (1,728.4 km) via National Highway 95 to Perth

34 h (2,779.4 km) via National Highway 1 to Darwin

47 h (3,829.1 km) via National Highway A1 to Adelaide

55 h (4,550.7 km) via National Highway A1 to Melbourne

60 h (5,066.5 km) via National Highway A1 to Sydney

65 h (5,569.9 km) via National Highway 1 and A2 to Brisbane

[bronco67]

1-3 hours is ok.

anything above 6 is a big "fuck that".

[Mr Pheer]

I get road rage just driving in my neighborhood.

[King Mark]

That's a fairly long drive.

[pimpmaster9000]

Originally Posted by AdultKing

Shortest routes to a capital city in order.

24 h (1,728.4 km) via National Highway 95 to Perth

34 h (2,779.4 km) via National Highway 1 to Darwin

47 h (3,829.1 km) via National Highway A1 to Adelaide

55 h (4,550.7 km) via National Highway A1 to Melbourne

60 h (5,066.5 km) via National Highway A1 to Sydney

65 h (5,569.9 km) via National Highway 1 and A2 to Brisbane

holy shit 65 hours LOL...

[Rochard]

Originally Posted by baddog

These days it is just me and Buddy, so the car.

As far as motorcycle rides, I have ridden to Daytona Beach and back (3 weeks), LA to Sturgis, SD about 10 times (usually 7-10 days); as far north as the Oregon border and as far south as Loredo, BC.

My oldest bike (1986) has about 150,000 miles on it; all mine.

Damn, good for you.

The longest I've ever driven on a bike was from Phoenix to Mexico down to LaSalina. So maybe 500 miles in a day but only one day. This was on a sports bike.

[MK Ultra]

I used to love long distance driving

I once drove from Orlando to Santa Monica in 48 hours flat, I even stopped in Texas and slept a few hours.

When I used to shag cars (think Vanishing Point) for a car dealer friend of mine I went 1000 miles in a single day while taking a Jetta from Miami to Denver, just to see if I could.

Miami to New York was about 19 hours, went there a lot.

Leaving Miami at 6 AM for Atlanta and my return flight would touch down back home before the sun went down that evening.

I still like to take 400 mile lunch-rides on my bike.

If I didn't dislike driving big vehicles I'd probably been a truck driver.

[dillfly2000]

12 to 13 hours straight a bunch of time. grandma lives across country and love checking out the scenery while driving.

[marcop]

I've done the 5.5-7 hour drive from LA to somewhere in Northern California (or vice versa) over 100 times, and it seems like no big deal. Vegas is 4.5 hours and that feels easy... I suppose it's what you get used to. I didn't learn to drive until I was 30 as I'd grown up in London then lived in NYC, mostly Manhattan, so didn't need a car until I moved to CA.

[SBJ]

I've driven from IN to Georgia which is like 12 hours.

I drove to Oklahoma which turned out to be a 14-hour drive for a photo shoot.

I've also made the trip from IN to AZ 3 or 4 times but normally with my family so I didn't drive much the that was a 2-day trip (18-20 hours)

A 6-hour trip is nothing.

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by Scott McD

Think the longest/furthest i'very ever had to drive is 3 hrs, maybe 3 hrs 30mins at most. Got a 6 possibly 7 hour drive on Wednesday and although it won't bother me i can't help but think if I was on a flight for 6hrs i could be getting some glorious sunshine rather than more of the same here simply visiting relatives in England lol.

I know some of you guys clock up some crazy mileage.

Everything we need here is very local. Even going into Glasgow centre is no more than a 20min drive usually...

that would be like LA to Sacramento or San Francisco .... not that big of deal

[GAMEFINEST]

meh that's average if you are on vacation

[AmeliaG]

I feel like 2 to 12 hours is a road trip. I've got less stamina for them now than when I was a teen, but I love the freedom of going by car. Especially post-9/11 when flying got so much more tedious in the US. Less than 2 hours is just running into traffic or going somewhere inconvenient, but doesn't really feel like going elsewhere to me. More than 12 should probably be more than a one day drive. I love just being new places, seeing the sun set in a different spot.

[Dead]

Originally Posted by MK Ultra

I used to love long distance driving

I once drove from Orlando to Santa Monica in 48 hours flat, I even stopped in Texas and slept a few hours.

When I used to shag cars (think Vanishing Point) for a car dealer friend of mine I went 1000 miles in a single day while taking a Jetta from Miami to Denver, just to see if I could.

Miami to New York was about 19 hours, went there a lot.

Leaving Miami at 6 AM for Atlanta and my return flight would touch down back home before the sun went down that evening.

I still like to take 400 mile lunch-rides on my bike.

If I didn't dislike driving big vehicles I'd probably been a truck driver.

1000 miles in a day is like 16 hours behind the wheel...Damn!

I imagine I have easily punched my card in the Million Mile Club...and half of those in a 26'Penski , guess I am a wanna be trucker

[ilnjscb]

Originally Posted by PR_Glen

road trips are kind of a thing in north america... its not uncommon for people to do 7 hour road trips or even much longer. I know far too many people who actually drive from the toronto area to florida every year, which is insane to me, more so because its such a damn cheap flight and only just over 3 hours instead of 30....

There are some very nice drives, like the one along the east coast. On the OBX drive you'll have ocean on both sides. There's coastal drives from Maine down to the Keys

Originally Posted by CyberSEO

Only 6 hours? That's not serious

I was going to say, I'm sure Mother Russia has us all beat, and lots of it has no infrastructure

Originally Posted by MK Ultra

I used to love long distance driving

I once drove from Orlando to Santa Monica in 48 hours flat, I even stopped in Texas and slept a few hours.

When I used to shag cars (think Vanishing Point) for a car dealer friend of mine I went 1000 miles in a single day while taking a Jetta from Miami to Denver, just to see if I could.

Miami to New York was about 19 hours, went there a lot.

Leaving Miami at 6 AM for Atlanta and my return flight would touch down back home before the sun went down that evening.

I still like to take 400 mile lunch-rides on my bike.

If I didn't dislike driving big vehicles I'd probably been a truck driver.

In college I did so many 20 hours drives to get to the beach. I couldn't do that shit now.

[Manfap]

Spain North to the South, it's about 10 hours, great drive though.

From snow covered mountains, greenery like Ireland to miles of flatness like Texas, more mountains, then pretty much desert to the coast.

[Brad Mitchell]

I've probably driven 750,000 miles in my life. 6-7 hour drive is nothing!'

Brad

[bloggerz]

after the first 3-4 hours, to me, it's a long drive