My husband and his mom drove straight through from Milwaukee to Denver on Saturday. It took them 17 hours and they left at 2 a.m. I would have been going out of my mind being in a car for that long.
What is the longest road trip (non-stop) that you took?
We used to drive from Nashville to Fort Worth – 13+ hours, with four kids. Never again!
I never was in a ride that long — not in a car, anyhow. When my kids were little, my parents lived about a hour away, and I don’t think we took them anywhere farther.
When they were teens, I drove them to a Thanksgiving weekend outside Boston, which might have taken me about three hours…
Y’know, I think we didn’t have that mentality. My mother didn’t travel well — before Dramamine — and we just didn’t get in the car unless we had to be somewhere and there was no other way to get there.
56 hours through Brazil in a hot bus.
OMG that’s an insane amount of time for a car ride.
From Mt. Rushmore to Lake Tahoe. I don’t know how long it was, but we crossed the Great Salt Lake at night. Our then 10 year old son had broken his leg and they couldln’t put it in a cast for 3 days, untill the swelling went down, so he was in pain whenever we had to move him (like helping him to the bathroom). Miserable trip. We took turns driving. I was never so glad to see sagebrush in my life as I was when we got to Nevada.
That sounds absolutely miserable Bev.
We drove from California to Nebraska (about 1,300 miles), stopping only at rest stops, & also had our newborn, 3 month old son with us!
I’ve driven across the U.S., from NC to CA, but we stopped at a motel each night. Took us 3 days.
I’ve traveled & moved a lot. I was a military wife for 28 years.