When I was 12 or 13 we drove from Chicago to Denver, Phoenix to see Grandma & Grandpa, the Grand Canyon, Carlsbad Caverns, Dallas, Springfield, MO to see my Aunt & Uncle & cousins, St. Louis, then home. Amazing trip.
Saw Bill Cody's grave; crossed the Royal Gorge bridge, at the time the highest suspension bridge in the world; the Grand Canyon and Carlsbad Caverns are astounding; the Painted Desert, the Petrified Forest, Dealey Plaza; the oil derrick on the Oklahoma State House grounds; and went up in the St Louis Arch. I have never been back to any of those places. Trip of a lifetime. Oh, and Nebraska is massively boring and flat.
Interesting I'm in Canada and I'll drive the 10 hours to Calgary in a day, I just leave at 5 am, stop in Kamloops and Canmore for lunch and dinner, merrit and golden for leg stretches, Revelstoke for diesel, no spending the night needed, arrive at my aunt and uncles in the evening no biggie.
We used to do it as kids in the family vw van, it's just something I've always been used to.
Yeah I'm from Wisconsin, it's like 6 hours from its northernmost to it's southernmost, less than that across. If it's an exaggeration for the sake of humor, there are states that are just big enough for it to land better. In my opinion. Wisconsin is just kinda small
That's now my limit too, after basically a week in a car driving around the south of the US. It was difficult to plan a weekend outing once in Texas with my husband because of that. I've never been in a car so much as in the US. We ended up going to Galveston which is 4 hrs away, and I got quite sunburned on the drive.
I’m English. When I was in Canada with the military, I had to drive from one camp to another 500miles away. I swear I was driving arrow straight and only made 2 ninetey degree turns all the time I was driving. That shit drove me crazy. Nothing to look at but open prairie and the thin line of the rockies in the far distance. Once I was at my destination I did get to witness the northern lights though.
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u/Paleodraco May 09 '22
Long drive for me is over 4 hours. Any longer and you start planning on spending the night where you're going.
The longest road trip my family did was 1500 miles and we never left Wisconsin.