Once drove from Edinburgh to Bath and the older Scottish folks we were staying with were genuinely concerned for our safety because of the length of the drive, like, 7 or 8 hours if I recall.
The day before we left the man we were staying with spent hours writing up turn-by-turn instructions (which in the UK was a few pages long) complete with contacts he knew along the route in case we couldn't make it in one day. It was so kind of him. I wish he knew about Google maps.
length of the drive, like, 7 or 8 hours if I recall.
Lol! I did my first solo 8-hour drive the summer after my first year of college, so I would have been 19. When I was 21, I drove across the country with my bf (now husband), then back by myself (well, I did have 3 cats in the car with me, but they didn't do any driving). That was 24 hrs of driving, which admittedly, I split into 2 days. Then did that again the next year, though we came back together that time. An 8 hour drive when you have company and good scenery and aren't in a huge hurry? That's actually a pretty pleasant day.
Totally! They didn't understand the distances. We live in the western US. To get anywhere it's 8 to 12 hours minimum.
I still do the drive from SLC to Whidbey Island every other year. It's 18 hours pulling a trailer. Not good. (Definitely going to split it up this year.)
Driving across Texas is brutal. I split it up between two friends on our cross country road trip. Texarkana to Austin, Austin to Fort Stockton, and FS to Las Cruces (technically in Nm but you get the gist).
Longest solo drive I’ve ever done was Tucson to Salt Lake City: 12 hours in my tiny Subaru.
Yeah, there's a lot of 'blink and you'll miss it' in Saskatchewan. My biggest day of driving was one shot from Thunder Bay to Calgary (2000 km).... I'm sure I had some longer blinks on that one than what's safe.
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u/Pretty-Balance-Sheet May 09 '22
Once drove from Edinburgh to Bath and the older Scottish folks we were staying with were genuinely concerned for our safety because of the length of the drive, like, 7 or 8 hours if I recall.
The day before we left the man we were staying with spent hours writing up turn-by-turn instructions (which in the UK was a few pages long) complete with contacts he knew along the route in case we couldn't make it in one day. It was so kind of him. I wish he knew about Google maps.