Reply With Quote1,149miles in 25hrs (with breaks).
I did this and it was brilliant. I drove a brand new Camero from Dallas to Seattle with a crappy map I bought in a garage. Around teatime the Simpsons would be coming on so I'd just stop at the next motel I'd arrive at. It was a bit hit or miss as to whether me or the car would survive the night.Originally Posted by valleywatch
1,149miles in 25hrs (with breaks).
The bottom tip of India and back. 1993-4 in a Mercedes 508D. I was also married to an Italian for years and we did Brighton to Florence every couple of months in an early 2.25 diesel 110 landrover, which wasn't quite the ideal vehicle for the job...
I've done a few long distrance trips. In 2007 I drove from London to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia in one stint. It was a charity car rally called the Mongol Rally (it still runs annually). Back then you had to drive a 1000cc engine or less so we took a 1988 VW Polo (I think it may have technically been 1004cc!). The car cost us £77 on ebay! The good old days when you could get a genuine bargain. The route we took had us go through England, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Russia again, and Mongolia. It took exactly 28 days and was approximately 7500 miles. Slept mostly in tents and in the car, a hotel once a week for a shower.
In 2009 I did the Rickshaw Run which saw me and a friend pilot an auto-rickshaw (aka Tuk Tuk) from Shillong in the North East of India down to Goa on the West coast. 150cc, 7bhp and top speed of about 30mph. It was about 3000 miles and took us a fortnight, maybe a little longer actually.
Just this year I dragged my wife round europe in the MX-5 for a fortnight. Down to Tuscany via the alps and returning via the 'Ring. Not quite as adventurous, but far more luxurious!
Once took the car to Spain from Ireland.
Drove to Roslare Wexford and got the ferry to Pembroke and then went through the Eurotunnel at Folkstone. Once on the other side I drove to Tarragona Spain. Leaving out the distance on the water and the tunnel it's about 1500 miles of driving. Stayed for two weeks before doing 1500 back.
For Thanksgiving a few weeks ago I took on a nice trip from New Bern NC to Round Hill Virginia, spent a couple of days and then drove to Charlotte NC to drop my daughter off at the airport. I didn't know we were doing Thanksgiving in VA and I had already booked her return flight home through Charlotte. We then drove on to Atlanta for a weekend before returning to New Bern. That trip was around 1500 miles, lovely scenery going through the Shenandoah Valley.
I drove to Banjul, great trip.
Sounds brilliant. I've been to Port Douglas and Darwin but cheated and used a plane
I'm currently reading Paul Carter's "Is that Bike Diesel, Mate?: One Man, One Bike, and the First Lap Around Australia on Used Cooking Oil" and enjoying it
In one day,
East Molesey in Surrey to East Linton near Edinburgh and then back to East Molesey. 16 hours on the road - I went to collect a pair of Martin Logan Aeon-i electrostatic speakers. Worth it too! 800 miles; no stopping, no messing about. :0)
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I once took a Rapier fire appliance over 90 on the A1M en route to a persons reported and it still seemed to take forever.
F.T.F.A.
Road trips driven in eBay bangers with mates I’ve known since college.
Sarajevo and back in a very battered Vauxhall Astra which cost us about £150
Fez (Morocco) and back in MOT failure Ford Focus which cost about £300
We are Planning the next trip which may be to Chernobyl or we may head to Scandinavia and see how far north we can get.
Did Liverpool to Barcelona overnight once, 5 up in my Company Passat, that was a blast! Otherwise Southern Italy on the motorbike and a big car trip from Seattle around the olympic National park then down highway 101 on the coast to san Francisco. Love a big road trip! :)
Our family car usually does at least two all but non stop door to door drives per year going from Hampshire to the French Alps in either Dec and Feb
We also do the same to the south of France most summers
I’m almost ashamed to say I just fill up and drive, modern cars and a toll transponder and those sort of miles hold zero fears even in winter - usually only 1 fill up too
Usually do about 4K miles per year just in France and I’d take every one of those easy stress free long drives over any of my miserable 19mile 1.25hr commutes each day
A real change from out 1st trip to France in about 1999, the exhaust snapped off just before the middle box on my Vauxhall carlton early Sunday morning when leaving the ferry ramp, In the “good” days when France was shut on a Sunday and then drove the whole trip with the 3.0litre drowning out everything, as I couldn’t get anything to fix it, and that was RN roads the whole way then, lots of those poor French towns probably still haven’t recovered from that assault
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Both on my list. The wild life around Chernobyl is meant to be pretty amazing now. I’m currently intending up through Sweden over the top and down through Finland and then the Baltics.
Longest:
LA - NE USA - Houston.
Darwin - Alice Springs/Uluru - back up to Cape Tribulation - Sydney.
London - Black Forest - Danube - Hungary - Slovenia - Croatia - Italy - France - Portsmouth.
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Newquay to Edinburgh. About 550 miles! Back to back holidays with my brother when we were young lads. Not a journey I’d make in one sitting nowadays
Sydney to Townsville, T' Ville - Three ways - Ayres Rock - Adelaide, back to Sydney.......................I did take a couple of breaks.
Yorkshire - Aberdeen return 775 miles in c19 hours. Many times!
You mean like with three heads and that?
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Can. to Captiva Island, Fl, USA; nearly 1400 miles single trip. Took us 3 days - or better: 2 nights in Motels.
Menno
I once drove from Oswestry to Rhyl.
That what?
In the Sotadic Zone, apparently.
Took the Ferry from Newcastle to Stavanger and spent two long days riding my BMW R1150RT north to the arctic circle. Then back again. Great trip, on the way back we kept passing cyclists in the middle of nowhere. Eventually found out they were doing a 540km sportive. When I got home I bought a bicycle, went back the following year and did the bike ride. Took 20 hours and was an awesome experience.
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That's because you were only doing 90 (or in my book, time to shift from 3rd to 4th). Motorways are designed for 130 constant speed which means than 150 is more than achievable these days (although not is a crusty old fire engine). :)
In one day I drove from London to Nice solo to pick up the missus who flew with the toddler.
I then drove them to our villa and slept like a baby. That was just over 900 miles.
Over a couple of weeks I drove from Miami to Mexico via the Keys and on another trip drove to Mexico from Vancouver.
I drove non-stop from London to Kampala in Uganda (4,030 miles). But it doesn’t matter as no-one will actually read this provided I include ample detail in the paragraph and blather on for more than two lines. That will ensure that the casual ‘scanner’ will whisk on past to the ‘reply’ button and ignore the content of this post.
It’ll be further ignored if I add an emoticon, which I will now...
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Drove non-stop (2 of us) from Brighton to Sorrento - 1500 miles in 36 hrs in an original mini. Have also done the return journey solo on a Honda Superblackbird in about 20hrs (lots of petrol stops!)
London to Positano (Amalfi Coast, Italy) and back in a 1967 Alfa Romeo Duetto.
This.
Or summat like it.
Those that can, ride.
Everyone else...well, they just sit there...and wait for things to happen.
tl;drI drove non-stop from London to Kampala in Uganda (4,030 miles). But it doesn’t matter as no-one will actually read this provided I include ample detail in the paragraph and blather on for more than two lines. That will ensure that the casual ‘scanner’ will whisk on past to the ‘reply’ button and ignore the content of this post.
It’ll be further ignored if I add an emoticon, which I will now...
80 hours driving at an average of 50mph; surely the “I” should be “we”?I drove non-stop from London to Kampala in Uganda (4,030 miles). But it doesn’t matter as no-one will actually read this provided I include ample detail in the paragraph and blather on for more than two lines. That will ensure that the casual ‘scanner’ will whisk on past to the ‘reply’ button and ignore the content of this post.
It’ll be further ignored if I add an emoticon, which I will now...
The emoticon didn’t show up for me so I had to read what you wrote!
Poole to Swanage, round the long way aswell, didn't cheat by going across on that fandangled ferry contraption.
Sydney to Queensland. Nothing compared to the epic journeys by other members I know!
But, the trip was about the jorney , not the destination. In an old ford station wagon. Camped out. We had a great time! Botany bay, Newcastle, Byron Bay, Frazer Island. Bloody brilliant
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