Question of the Day - Tuesday, May 25

[cassiopea]

Hello hello everyone! Happy Tuesday! Hope everyone is well!







Where is the farthest place you’ve ever traveled in a car? How long did it take?







From Halifax to Montreal (And vice versa) which took approximately 12-13 hours. It's when I used to live in Nova Scotia for a few years as a kid and my parents and I would travel over to visit my maternal grandparents. It wasn't too bad in retrospect, but for a 8-10 year old it can feel long lol although my grandparents were definitely worth it!

 

[Malere#9105]

I drove from North Dakota to Alaska - 2518 miles - took 6 days. Also had 4 cats and a dog with me...in February.

 

[maggiedemi]

My friend and I took a road trip to Boston in our 20s. I'd say it took at least 6 hours, maybe longer.

 

[NY cat man]

In '74, before I-81 had been completed, I drove from WNY to Atlanta and back. Going down, it took a day and a half. Coming back, stopping only for gas, it took 20 hours. This in a car with no a/c, cruise control, or power steering, and a manual transmission to boot.

 

[Margret]

That would be from Littleton, CO to Marietta, OH, by way of Nebraska (Carhenge), Canada, and Buffalo NY. It took us a couple of weeks since we were sightseeing along the way. Autumn of 2001, shortly after 911.

Margret

 

[susanm9006]

From Minnesota to North Carolina, around 1200 miles one way so my son could visit his college girlfriend. We took two days driving there but ended up driving straight through on the way home, around 18 or 19 hours.

 

[fionasmom]

Los Angeles to San Francisco. However, I have a friend who regularly takes incredible road trips from Los Angeles to Martha's Vineyard.

 

[BellaGooch]

I think from California to Texas.

 

[susanm9006]

N NY cat man , I can relate. I took my son on vacation to Yellowstone with a brand new 83 Chevy Chevette. Transmission went out and we ended having to come back by bus. When the car was finally repaired, I flew in and drove the 1000 or so miles back to Minnesota by myself. You have never felt hot until you have driven through South Dakota in mid July 102 degree temps in a car without air conditioning. I kept a cooler in the front seat and kept stuffing ice down my clothes the whole way just to keep me a tad cooler. Never had a car without air since then.

 

[NY cat man]

N NY cat man , I can relate. I took my son on vacation to Yellowstone with a brand new 83 Chevy Chevette. Transmission went out and we ended having to come back by bus. When the car was finally repaired, I flew in and drove the 1000 or so miles back to Minnesota by myself. You have never felt hot until you have driven through South Dakota in mid July 102 degree temps in a car without air conditioning. I kept a cooler in the front seat and kept stuffing ice down my clothes the whole way just to keep me a tad cooler. Never had a car without air since then.

A Chevette?? At least I was driving my red '68 Mustang fastback.

 

[Lari]

One way or one trip it's hard to say. Probably Chicago to Florida. When I was like 14 we did a tour of the west and went through N Dak all the way to Idaho and came back through Wyoming and S Dak, but that was over a couple weeks with a lot of stops and sightseeing, so not sure it counts.

 

[Talien]

Detroit to Houston and back, about 2.600 miles for the round trip.

 

[denice]

As an adult it was a hundred miles south of Kansas City to Tacoma WA. There were road trips when I was a kid. From the same point in Kansas to Carlsbad New Mexico. From that same point in Kansas to Panama City FL. I also had a trip to the other corner of the U.S. but that was from northeast Ohio to Bayonne NJ just outside of New York City. That wouldn't have been as far as the others.

 

[Tobermory]

From Lynchburg, Virginia, to Ogden, Utah, in 1997, more than 2,000 miles. We were moving for my new job. It took three, 10-hour days, and it was pretty hard on our two cats, Teddy and Mayflower. They were very good girls, though.

 

[susanm9006]

A Chevette?? At least I was driving my red '68 Mustang fastback.

What can I say, a truly awful car. Went back to Chevrolet a year later under our state’s lemon law.

 

[strider rose]

from south east texas to michigan in 2014 to live with my then boyfriend ( husband)

 

[Boris Diamond]

From North Carolina to Colorado straight through. One drove while the other slept. I think we were in my brother's old used Jaguar XKE.

 

[game misconduct]

from los angeles california to vancouver brittish columbia i forget how long the drive took. ido remember how shocked i was at how clean all the lil towns and vancouver was though no bums, grafiti on the walls or trash on the streetsand the smell was so much cleaner than down town los angeles

 

[neely]

From IL to Maine but we stopped along the way to visit my sister and sight see which took two weeks. It was a great trip and when we stopped at a B&B in Corning, NY the house cat slept with us - he was a big orange Persian. We were so enamored with him that we made a point of staying again on our way back.

 

[Whenallhellbreakslose]

I went to Toronto, Canada from NY. It was like a 12 hour trip. I celebrated Canada Day with my Canadian friends and then made a stop at Niagara Falls for about an hour. Beautiful. My friend and I decided to get home by 8pm so we could see the fireworks for July 4th. We drove all the way home, non-stop. I was practically sticking to my seat and my butt was hurting for sitting down so long, but we got home on time and was able to celebrate the 4th of July. never forgot that trip and how crazy we were to drive for so long. We were young and foolish.