What is the longest round trip you have ever made in a day? And for what reason?

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MEXICOCHIVAS14@reddit

Houston to College Station and back… all around 10-5 am

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Finnegan1224@reddit

Drop my daughter off in UB in Buffalo NY. We live on Long Island out East. Then we went to Ferdonia for her sister all in one say. About 1000 miles with moving. Not fun.

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I assume this a car trip where I am driving somewhere? I have driven at least 800 miles by myself in one day only stopping for gas as needed. With others helping (trading off driving duties) way over 1000 without stopping for more than gas and grab some junk to eat at the same time.

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Obtuse-Posterior@reddit

When I was 16, I drove 3 hours both ways to buy a crappy bag of weed

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economysuperstar@reddit

Milwaukee, WI to Buffalo, NY, which is 9 and a half hours each way, to do an assessment of fixtures, furnishing, and branding at a Chrysler dealership.

Ordinarily we’d fly out for the one-offs but this happened to be the same weekend as the NCAA Final Four and flights were impossible. So I strapped into a rented white Dodge Avenger and made it happen. This was 15 years ago. I can’t drive like that anymore

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Diligent_Fact4945@reddit

In a day, 5 hours each way (10ish total) down to Tishomingo OK while I was learning to drive because I had 5 more hours I needed to get my license (even though they don't actually verify) because my mom wanted to get it over with and found a swimming hole down there she thought looked neat. On the way back, we stopped at a Loves in Seminole, right across the street from the Seminole Nation Casino. One of the shadiest gas stations I've ever seen but Lord almighty, the single best subway sandwich, hell, sandwich in general, I have ever had in my life. Longest round trip in general, my dad and I had business in Tallahassee on a Thursday and he didn't want to miss work Saturday so we drove about 16 hours down, stopping twice, crashed in a cheap hotel, did what we needed to the next day, and took a different, longer route (avoiding Memphis and Birmingham this time) that took about 17 hours with just a couple extra stops. 33 hours of driving with about half a day's worth of activity and a short night of shut eye in between. My father is a beast on the road.

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Derangedberger@reddit

18 hours one-way to see a solar eclipse.

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erilaz7@reddit

In a single day? Osaka to Miyajima and Hiroshima, about 350 km each way. I was staying at a hotel a short walk from Shin-Osaka station and it was doable as a day-trip. It took just over three hours to get from my hotel to Miyajima by bullet train and ferry. I left my hotel at 6 a.m. and got back at 10:45 p.m.

Return to IAH about 3.5 hours each way to pick up my mother who refused to get an internal connection to a closer airport. Done that multiple times when she visits.

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Oh wow. I totally didn’t even read the whole question! My round trip in one day is 5 hours each way to visit my grandmother in the hospital.

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JadeHarley0@reddit

3.5 hours there and 3.5 hours back from Akron Ohio to Chillicothe Ohio. To visit family. Done this trip multiple times.

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ireallylikebigbooks@reddit

I love seeing a random Chillicothe mention in the wild!

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_svenjolly_@reddit

I used to deliver furniture. We would deliver sofas, kitchen sets, beds, mattresses… literally furnish entire homes sometimes.

One time we drove from Mansfield to Athens, OH….

It was for a twin mattress and we were there for all of 2 minutes before we made the trek back…

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drunkenwildmage@reddit

Did Toledo to Chillicothe a handful of times, about 3ish hours.

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mando_ad@reddit

Different cities (Waco-Abilene, TX), but same time frame and same reason.

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Defiant_Equipment_52@reddit

Chillicothe Ohio

First capital representation!

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beertruck77@reddit

Also Ohio's third capital.

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ktn24@reddit

I've done that many times, also many trips Akron to Cincinnati, Piketon, Gallipolis, and Athens (separate trips). Cincinnati is farthest distance but I think Gallipolis might be the longest duration drive out of that bunch. Actually now that I think of it, I once drove all the way to Portsmouth (Scioto County) and back, that was probably the longest and farthest.

One of the things I love about Ohio is that anywhere in the state can be a day trip.

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thelordstrum@reddit

I had to go to my grandmother's memorial service back in The Bronx. It also happened to be the same day that a friend of mine was celebrating his birthday upstate. I hadn't seen any of them in a while because I had hurt my back and couldn't drive, but I'd been doing PT for a few months and had seen some improvement.

I did all of this on like three hours of sleep, which I definitely don't recommend.

6am, leave my apartment
10am, get to The Bronx (I was surprised I got there this early)
Drove to various places until about 4pm-ish.
Got to my friend's house around 5pm
Stayed until about 10pm
Went to another friend's house to meet his new dog, probably left around 11pm
Drove back down to Maryland, probably made it back around 5am (I remember pulling over in a rest area and trying to take a power nap, didn't happen, got some caffeine instead)

A little over a year ago I got up and decided I was going to go see the eclipse. I wanted to be right in totality and the weather was cloudy that day so my only option was to drive 6 hours (without traffic) one way. That’s about 390 miles.

So, I drove 390 miles. Stopped maybe 1 hour total to watch the eclipse then drove home same day. Traffic was really heavy near eclipse totality so it took more like 7+ hours each way.

I drove 1300 miles in 23 hours.

It was insane.

My “normal” trip is 650 miles, which is the one way of that trip. That normally takes me about 11 hours.

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My girlfriend's friend left her at an airport when she had an asthma/panic attack. They were supposed to fly together but the friend got on the plane without her.

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Exotic-Lecture6631@reddit

About 5 hours each way for a LARP game. About twice a month for a while, and a car full made the opposite trip on the alternate weeks. Although techically the day trip ended at like 3 am, but we didnt hit the road until noon

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Medic1248@reddit

3.5 hours one way just the other day for me.

I forgot my racing slicks in my living room leaving the morning of. So I drove 3.5 there. Ran my bike on the track all day. 3.5 back. Showered. Loaded my tires and then 3.5 there again.

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unknown_anaconda@reddit

I've done 16 hours one way, but I don't think I've done a round trip more than 2 hours each way in a single day. If I'm traveling that far I'm staying for at least a couple days.

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Acethetic_AF@reddit

4 hours each way to attend a funeral

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I drove Santa Barbara to Sacramento for dinner at Biba for my great aunt's 95th b-day and then we drove home.

A little over 10 hours roundtrip.

I also drove KC to Long Beach, CA in one ride, and also Santa Fe to Santa Barbara. Both were a long haul.

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Individual-Risk-5239@reddit

Either 6.5 hrs down to watch son’s lax game and drive back or BWI to Tampa to watch son’s lax game and back.

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TwainVonnegut@reddit

7 hours round trip to see James Taylor this past Tuesday, so worth it!!

Ive driven over 20 hours multiple times for various reasons bit they come down to the same thing. I'm cheap and wont pay for hotels en route to a destination.

Round-trip in a day I drove to Montreal from Cleveland for a concert and turned around and headed home. I did the from Detroit to Charleston SC for a show and turned around to head home after the concert. Those were each over 20 hour drives round-trip, but took longer than a day because of the concert.

Actually driving, or at least swapping, was I think around 16 or 17 hours, driving back to visit my parents and the person I was following broke down and I had to tow them home but couldn't get above like 35-40 or is fishtail the trailer so it was back roads for like 12-13 hours after a few hours of regular driving and uhaul car trailer shenanigans.

Riding not driving was probably like 18-19 hours if I remember correctly, going from NYC to Atlanta after marching in a parade and one kid refused to shit outside his house because of his autism so on the way back after days of not shitting he thought his appendix burst or something equally as stupid so he had to go to the ER with the entire bus he was on and the rest of us in other busses all had to wait for hours while that got sorted out before continuing on the way.

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RevolutionaryGolf720@reddit

20 hours on a motorcycle. I’m an Iron Butt rider. It was about 1650 miles total. Why? To see if I could do it.

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Street-Dark-7221@reddit

Between 13-14 hours each way to see my son in Kentucky. I don’t mind the road trip because the scenery always changes.

Before that, probably about four hours each way to see a woman I was infatuated with. At the time I should’ve known better but when you’re young…🤪😁

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MeatloafingAround@reddit

about 4 hours each way, to pick up a piece of rare vintage furniture for a great price.

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ProfileSimilar9953@reddit

5 hours to and from Las Vegas as a rendezvous to drop off my grandmother to drive the rest of the way home with her husband. I had a permit at the time

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Pigglywiggly23@reddit

17 hours this past January. What was supposed to be a 10.5 hour drive from Metro Detroit to Raleigh turned into a nightmare during a bad winter storm in NC. I'd like to never repeat that again.

Also did 17 one other time, driving from Hilton Head SC to Metro Detroit. Should be 14 hours, tops, which I've done solo many times, straight through.

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steampunkpiratesboat@reddit

3.5 hours each way cedar point amusement park I’ve done that more than once. Leave before 5am spend all day at the park drive back home

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texasrigger@reddit

Cincinnati to St. Louis for work. I was delivering some stuff. The company I worked for intended to put me up in a hotel in St. Louis, but I had no interest in that, so I just headed home. It's very far from my longest road trip (which was 2100 miles with a single 6 hr rest stop), but it's the longest one day round trip.

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I’ve done a few trips that are 3.5-4hr round trip. Not my favorite, but I’ve done it several times.

My longest one way trip was a lot longer. Not that it’s crazy long for some people, but 15hrs was a long one for me.

My mother was dying of lung cancer. I'd drive 5 hrs from MA to PA to give my brother a break caring for her. Even though we love one another, we were sick of each other. Hated PA, too, which didn't make it easier. Had to go back a week or so after the funeral to sign some papers. Met him at the bank, signed the papers, stopped at his house to pick up some stuff.

He asked if we wanted to stay, but I just wanted to go home. We had a great visit later that year and others since.

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FadingOptimist-25@reddit

13 hours round trip to pick up my son at college.

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Ok-Pumpkin400@reddit

We drove 42 hours in a 48 hour period.

We are originally from Maryland and family lives there, we were currently living in Georgia. The Army was moving us to Texas and I refused to move before rehoming my neighbors dog. They neglected him often and would drop him off with us, so i finally just asked to rehome him the week we were meant to move to texas. They quickly said yes and the only person i trusted him with was my dalmatians trainer back in maryland. So my husband and i took turns driving to Maryland to drop him off (trainer was going to meet us but she had Covid and this was in 2020), ate and napped at my sisters, then drove back to georgia. Then a few days later drove to Texas to move.

That trainer spent like $600+ on that dog and he was malnourished and had mange. She didnt ask for a cent from me and she had him recouperated, trained, and given an incredible forever home. She is such a great human and i would do it again in a heartbeat.

My husbands answer would be 16 hours with a 1 hour stop. When the Army was moving us from Texas to Washington, we had friends who asked us to foster their pup for a week while they found him a home (since the Army was moving them and they are a family of 5).... they never did and didnt come back, so we just had this dog for 3 weeks as we were preparing our move. We already had 2 dogs, and a baby and we werent in a place to take in another pup financially. Well our move date was getting closer and closer and nobody would take in this pup...but i have a friend back in Georgia who owns a dog boarding facility and she offered to foster him and find him a suitable home (again out of the goodness of her heart). So on her ONLY day off (she's a single mom of 2, small business owner, and also works as a manager at a restaurant) she drove 8 hours to meet my husband who also drove 8 hours, and then they both drove 8 hours back home after.

My husband made me PROMISE to never take in another pup when we are about to move 😅

...never said anything about cats though 🤔 kidding!

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mydogisatortoise@reddit

1200 miles in 22 hours. Port Orchard WA to Golden Valley AZ straight thru. Had to p/u a kid and a bunch of birds n shit.

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kevinb9n@reddit

(impressive but the thread is about round trips)

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mydogisatortoise@reddit

I turned around and drove back later that day

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kevinb9n@reddit

WHAT ... well okay then. except... what?

A little over 1,200 miles on a motorcycle. Kansas City to denver and back to earn the “Iron Butt” rite of passage.

I have done Kansas City to San Diego nonstop, but didn’t make the return trip, so not a round trip.

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sikhster@reddit

In a car: Oakland to Los Angeles and back, about 350 miles each way so 700 miles. On a plane: SFO to BOS and back, I needed to earn points to get to the next status on my airline.

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Yellowtelephone1@reddit

I drove 13 or 14 hours without stopping. Only for gas. I drove from just outside of Philly to Atlanta.

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kiryu_chaaaan@reddit

I drove 8 hours round trip from Seattle to some no-name town in British Columbia to see a band at a music festival. The band was from Finland and I figured it would be my only chance to see them live.

We had no interest in any of the bands. We stayed for one hour, saw the band, bought a couple of their shirts, and drove back to Seattle that night.12 years later, the frontman of the band unexpectedly passed away. So it was definitely well worth it.

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ToTooTwoTutu2II@reddit

16 hours from Minnesota to Kansas. Doctor's appointment.

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But in a single day, about 11 hours of roundtrip driving

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grendel303@reddit

Nice, I did memphis to San Diego in about 26 hours.

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JodaMythed@reddit

5 hours each way.

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SailsTacks@reddit

Flew Albany, GA>Atlanta>Salt Lake City>Seattle and back in one day. I designed graphics and apparel for Morrison Motorsports, a SCCA/IMSA Corvette race team. They occasionally did high end performance modifications for wealthy car owners. A new client wanted to pay the company with a $10k bar of gold that was stamped at a gold refinery in Seattle. It was cheaper for them to fly me there and back to have the bar authenticated than it would be to have it authenticated at another refinery. 18 years old. First time ever flying.

I distinctly remember reading a Rolling Stone article about Kurt Cobain’s recent suicide on the plane - on my way to Seattle.

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MEMExplorer@reddit

Used to regularly drive 4.5hrs each way , Stockton to Lake Tahoe to go snowboarding , most times right after working a 12 hr night shift

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SnarkyBeanBroth@reddit

Straight drive (switch-driving with my father) from W Texas to N California. Was done to get my car from my home to my duty station. So, a full day of driving (24 hours), with short breaks for food & gas. We left late evening one day, arrived late evening the next.

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KaBar42@reddit

Kentucky to Florida with my aunt.

We were picking up my cousin who was on leave from the Marine Corps (it was maybe Pensacola, I don't exactly remember, it was a long while ago and I was pretty young).

So you're looking at roughly a 1,260 mile round trip and 18 hours of driving.

Now what I have driven preeonally?

Hopkinsville. Approximately 340 miles and 12+ hours of driving.

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moneymutantJP@reddit

I can't remember why my brother was going to Tennessee, but I drove with him 10 hours down from Pennsylvania. Then I took about a 2 hour nap and drove the 10 hours back home by myself.

At a different point, I drove a moving van for that same brother from central Pennsylvania to Chicago. Again, approximately 10 hr trips, but this time I helped to unload the van and then flew home later that day.

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shouldiknowthat@reddit

Round trip: 800 miles. 14 hours driving, 2 hours food, bathroom breaks, refueling. Drove my stepson from our house to his mother's to drop him off for a one-week visit. Repeated the same trip 7 days later.

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k464howdy@reddit

426 miles. 9 hours

i was in bed with a girl and at the last moment she changed her mind about .. stuff.

decided to drive to the beach at 3am in the morning. made a wrong tern and ended up a state away.

had lunch and drove back.

no hard feelings.

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remes1234@reddit

22 hrs driving. Lansing, Michigan to Denver Colorado. To go skiing in college.

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RawAsparagus@reddit

Cincinnati to Chicago for a visitation. We stayed for 20 or 30 minutes and got back in the car. It was about 4.5 or 5 hours each way.

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Angsty_Potatos@reddit

Impulse drive with friends right after we all got driver's licenses at 16. Randomly decided to drive to the jersey shore and back from central Pa. About 8 hrs round trip.

Texans will run to Dallas or Houston to go shopping and eat for a day.

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Cjtorino@reddit

From Atlanta to Lincoln Nebraska, by the scenic route, 17 hours. Also, round-trip from Salt Lake City to and through Yellowstone Park, Grand Tetons, and Jackson hole. Again 17 hours. My butt was tired!

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DSC9000@reddit

680 miles: 280 miles south, 205 miles north, 205 miles back south.

Cause: Broken car.

Meattyloaf@reddit

9 hours. 4.5 hours to and 4.5 hours back. Went to visit some of my family for a Christmas dinner. We decided to meet near the middle of the 7.5 hour trip between us.

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Sapphire_Dreams1024@reddit

Not in a day, but they took turns driving so we wouldnt have to stop for longer than a half hour for food and to use the bathroom.

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MetalEnthusiast83@reddit

Not that far. If something is over 4 or 5 hours, I will usually stay overnight.

I did drive straight back from Montreal to Connecticut after the Grand Prix one year though, that was like a 10 hour drive.

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ngshafer@reddit

I think my longest one-day trips was Seattle to Portland, because I had a presentation to give for my org's Portland office. That's about 350 miles round trip.

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Teacher-Investor@reddit

Detroit to Pittsburgh to pick up a puppy, or Detroit to Toronto to pick up a classic car my brother had bought. Both are about 4-5 hrs each way, depending on traffic.

Does this seem unreasonable to you, OP? I once read that Americans think 100 yrs is a long time, but 100 miles is a short distance while people in many other countries think 100 miles is a long distance, but 100 yrs is a short amount of time.

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drunkenwildmage@reddit

Toledo, OH to the small town in Western Pennsylvania I'm originally from , twice. The travel time varied depending on who was driving.

The first time, my dad was behind the wheel. We made the trip in about 4 hours and 30 minutes, one way. That was back when the speed limit was 55. We were heading out to pick up some family members for a wedding.

The second time, it was me and my brother driving. That trip took about 3 hours and 45 minutes, one way, for a family memorial service. The speed limit was mostly 70, with some stretches at 65. We also tended to "push" the limit a tad more than our dad ever did.

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Mountain-Tea3564@reddit

8 hours each way. Had to go visit my nana. Found out i couldn’t stay because a bad snowstorm was coming our way. Immediately turned around after doing what i had to do at her house. Got pulled over an hour from my house around midnight and almost went to jail lol.

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Round-trip in one day... Probably 7 hours each way. Drove from mid-Vermont to Broadway for Beetlejuice and back. $50 for the bus ride and the ticket. That I drove? Pretty comparable for time but I didn't stick to interstates so it was slower but more interesting. And I'm a PITA so I came home a different route. Longest drive on my own in one day? Michigan City IN to mid Vermont.

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Maverick_and_Deuce@reddit

Baltimore to Destin, Florida. I live in NC, and was making plans to drive to Florida to adopt a dog. One of my best friends from high school is in North Jersey, and is a huge Yankees fan. He calls a few days before and says he has an extra ticket to see the Yankees at Orioles on a Friday night- he was going with his wife and mom, but mom didn’t feel up to the trip. Sure, I said- I’ll just take Friday off and ride up to Baltimore, and drive down to get the dog on Saturday. So I committed to this without consulting a GPS to see the distances involved. The game was fun; I was on the road just before 7 Saturday morning, and with minimal gas, bathroom and food stops, got to my AirBNB well after 10. So roughly 15 hours. And then I picked him up and drove 8+ hours home on Sunday. Not my best example of planning!

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s7o0a0p@reddit

I’ve gone from Boston to DC and back on Amtrak to ride in a sleeping car when they had those. That’s about 1,471 kilometers.

Perfect-Resort2778@reddit

I once drove from Atlanta to Kansas City, no stops except for gas because I just really-really wanted to get back home. I left Friday at 5:30pm after working all day, then I got home about 7:00 am Saturday morning. Stupidest thing I ever did because of how tired I was but I did it. Work all day then drive 800 miles, I don't recommend it.

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ZetaWMo4@reddit

Drove 4 hours each way to shop at a newly built mall.

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GoldfishDude@reddit

From Louisville, Kentucky to Tulsa, Oklahoma to pick up a car. About 20 hours total, 10 hours each way.

Driving from Milton Keynes, UK to Brussels, Belgium and straight back. About 300miles / six hours each way.

It was to collect my dog, who I found stray in Greece while I was on holiday there, it was hundreds of pounds cheaper to fly him to Belgium and pick him up than to fly him to London.

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JimmyB264@reddit

New Delhi to Seattle with a short stop in Japan. It was a very long day.

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Bradders33@reddit

Driving from Milton Keynes, UK to Brussels, Belgium and straight back. About 300miles / six hours each way.

I used to do 186 miles round trip M-F for work.

About 11 1/2 hours

8 hours each way.

400 miles. Not driving, but we did a day trip from London to Liverpool, but took a train. Does that count? It's 400 miles round-trip. We did some Beatles tours.

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gdfuzze@reddit

8 hours each way hauling a marginally better car to my daughter and hauling back the broken one to work on at home. It never ran again, btw.

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Noahtuesday123@reddit

Went from Edmonton to Vancouver at 12 years old to do EXPO in Vancouver and then back home.

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tara_tara_tara@reddit

When I was in college, my friends and drove from Amherst, MA to Philadelphia and back to watch the UMass men’s basketball team play against Temple. At the time, Temple was their nemesis.

It was a Thursday night/Friday morning trip and I don’t know how, but we all went to our classes on Friday. In the same clothes we wore on Thursday.

IEDrew91@reddit

3 to 4 hours each way to visit my mom. Have done it a couple of times

phishmademedoit@reddit

I drove 20 hours non stop, nys to Miami.

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According_Drawing_59@reddit

Driving- either Tucson AZ to Houston TX, or Toronto ON to Jackson MS

Gorewuzhere@reddit

Denver to Cheyenne Wyoming and back for the 4th of July. Pretty common.

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ThatPokemonNerd2521@reddit

Colorado to North Carolina was the longest single stretch I’ve ever done without stopping, it’s about 20? Hours maybe? 24?

TITANUP91@reddit

I’ve commuted 2 hour plane flight from Dallas to Phoenix and back in a day, several times.

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Sad-Umpire6000@reddit

Three hours one way, multiple times. My wife was going through leukemia treatment and often had to go to a cancer center across the state (Florida). It was 2:45 to three hours getting there. For a month, she was in-patient, and it was during covid and was only allowed a visitor for one hour a day. I mostly went every other day.

The driving really wasn’t bad at all. I like to drive, and except for the Floridiots on SR60, it’s an easy trip.

I’ve done a bunch of motorcycle rides that were four or more hours one-way, and then back home the same day, just because I felt like riding. On the way out, only stop when I get to 75 miles or less range remaining; on the way back, stop every 45 minutes or hour for a quick break to stretch and move around for a couple minutes.

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osheareddit@reddit

Picked up a boat I was buying, 12 hours there, test drove it and then 12 hours back. Roughly 1400 miles or 2250km. 27 hour trip.

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mykepagan@reddit

Picking up my daughter and two high school friends from 3 different universities in Massachusetts (we live in NJ). At Thanksgiving.

Normally this is 3.5 hours each way. Between making stops at three different schools andcthe horrific Thanksgiving traffic at colleges in MA, it took us over 17 hours in the car.

This is when I learned the college parent lesson: Do not pick up on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.

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misterlakatos@reddit

Round-trip from Kansas to Mississippi (12 hours each way).

HighFiveKoala@reddit

Road trip from Boston to Toronto

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benificialart@reddit

Southern Indiana to Chicago and back. 5 hours each way and it was to renew my Polish passport.

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fos2234@reddit

With other drivers in the car I’ve gone about 23 hours straight from Minneapolis to Salt Lake. On my own I’ve done 18 straight driving out to college. I stopped making that trip on my own after a while, it’s just not very safe to do so.

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velociraptorfarmer@reddit

4 hours each way from SE Minneosta to Chicago to buy a truck.

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Sparkle_Rott@reddit

4 hours each way to get the best fried chicken, Carolina barbecue, and cornbread in the world. Brought a cooler so we could bring a bunch home.

Maryland to North Carolina

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TehWildMan_@reddit

I had to do the Orlando-Chattanooga drive on a weekly basis for a while back in 2022-2023, roughly 570 miles each way.

In good conditions and some liberal interpretation of speed limits, it can be an 8 hour drive if taken non-stop, but the need for rest stops and sometimes sproadic traffic in the Atlanta metropolitan area can blow that up a bit.

Anything much longer than that I would break up into multiple days

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dechets-de-mariage@reddit

“Liberal interpretation of speed limits” 😂

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TehWildMan_@reddit

Oh hey there, GSP.

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dechets-de-mariage@reddit

Haha, nope…but I feel you!

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Financial_Emphasis25@reddit

Drove around the Grand Canyon in a day during our honeymoon. Started at 4am in Las Vegas on a late December morning, we drove to the Northern Rim of the Grand Canyon but it was closed because of snow, so we kept driving to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon and got there about 10 minutes before the sun set. Snapped a couple of pictures then drove back to Vegas and got back around 1am.

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Traditional_Entry183@reddit

I had to drop out of the first college I attended over winter break. My parents had already bought me a plane ticket home. So I stored all of my things in the apartment a friend had near campus, flew home, and then a few days later my dad and I drove 8 hours down, loaded up, got dinner, and drove 8 hours home. His truck was not happy by the end of the day.

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yaholdinhimdean0@reddit

5 hours, 8 minutes, 502km (312 miles).

Took my daughter to see Chelsea play RM at Ravens stadium.

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brak-0666@reddit

Took a day trip from where I live to Baltimore to have lunch with a friend and go to the aquarium. 4 hours each way.

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VisionAri_VA@reddit

Three hours each way for a business meeting.

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Guardian-Boy@reddit

Las Vegas to the Grand Canyon and back, about four hours each way.

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Vivid-Fennel3234@reddit

Round trip: Detroit to Chicago (4hr one-way) to visit a friend who was there for the day. Got there around 2pm, hung out for the day, dropped them off at the train station, then got home around midnight.

Montreal to Grand Rapids, MI

About 721 miles.

I have also done Seattle to Boston. I was helping a buddy move. We drove straight through to Bismarck ND and slept for about 6 hours, 1,200m/1,900k. Then Bismarck to Boston MA, that was 1,800m/2,900k straight. Only stopping for gas and food at the gas stations.

Catch is we were both over 40 and it was definitely way harder than we remembered from our youth.

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Quirky-Jackfruit-270@reddit

wife and son missed their connecting flight so I drove from Tucson to San Francisco to pick them up at the airport about 13 hours each way. The airline put them up at a hotel so they weren't sleepy when I got there so I just nursed a few bottles of code red to get through. We even stopped on way back, Monterey Aquarium, if memory serves correctly.

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Brainfewd@reddit

Buddy and I did Rochester NY - NJ - San Francisco CA - Rochester in 7 days in a pickup towing a car trailer. Pretty much didn’t stop the whole time. Few naps in the truck here and there.

All things considered, it wasn't that long of a trip. Baltimore, MD to Norfolk, VA. About 4 hours to, but 7 hours back because one of us put in "avoid highways" in the return trip, plus the massive thunderstorm that hit us on the way back.

We went down because we had been told there was a dog breeder that was willing to sell us a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel puppy. It was a scam. No puppy. Managed to avoid getting robbed though, so that was a silver lining.

So we were stuck in a car for 11 hours, with no puppy in tow, rain pouring down around us, all feeling like complete idiots.

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BionicGimpster@reddit

15 hrs each way- 30 total. Went to pick up a puppy from the breeder. This was March 2020 in the early shut down days of Covid and we didn’t want to get a hotel. The original plans were for a stop midway at a hotel for each leg of the trip. I probably did 25 hrs and my wife drive some so I could nap. Only stops were for gas and bathroom breaks. We brought food and coffee from home.

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willtag70@reddit

Providence, RI to Denver, CO straight through, about 2,000 miles. Took about 24 hours. Three of us driving. It was the beginning of a 5 week odyssey trip across the country, up the west coast into Canada, east across Canada, into Maine, down the east coast back to RI. About 10,000 miles total. One of those trips of a lifetime when young.

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TypicalUser1@reddit

Drove from Battle Creek, MI to Baton Rouge, LA. Out the hotel parking garage at 6:30am, got home at 2:00am. 16hr of driving, we stopped at Mammoth Cave for a break to stretch the legs.

I used to drive 115 miles to work every day so 230 on the round trip and typically I swing into the gym on the way home so it was closer to 250 miles per day.

We drive down to my parents (150 miles round trip) or my in-laws (400 miles round trip) for day trips several times per year. I did 330 miles round trip for a job interview.

My record was when I used to live in Denver and I'd drive Casper then work a 8 to 10 hour day and then drive home. That was 600 miles per day. I did that once per month for a bit over a year.

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PTbone20@reddit

10 hours round trip. We didn't want to tow my car behind a U-Haul during our most recent move, so we had to make an extra trip for it

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ilikespicysoup@reddit

Seattle to San Diego on a family trip. My step dad and I traded off driving. I think we did it in 26 hours. The other younger kids needed lots of bathroom breaks and stopping for food.

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eugenesbluegenes@reddit

I've done a few day trips to Yosemite, ~200 miles/4 hours driving time each way.

Because Yosemite.

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felixthecat59@reddit

Little Rock, AR to Dallas, TX and back. 342 miles one way. Total a little over 700 miles, including one side trip. Just over 11.5 hours, in an F-150 hauling a loaded trailer, with a 1954 For Mercury hot rod.

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jimonlimon@reddit

About 750 miles towing a small trailer to pick up furniture. Gave me more respect for professionals who safely drive all day everyday.

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Equal_Ant_9730@reddit

Longest round trip was 280 miles each way to pick up a couple of cars that a family friend bought. Longest solo straight trip was 1,116 miles which took about 20 hours!

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Mean-Bandicoot-2767@reddit

Round trip? I don't know that it was my longest, but my sister and I just bombed up to Spokane, WA and back to our Portland OR suburb yesterday (770 mile or so round trip) to pick up a horse. It took us about 12 hours last weekend in the car and about 14 hours with the truck and trailer. In fairness we had some tire trouble with the trailer so there was over an hour on the side of the road lost cumulatively. (Popped 1 more tire than we had spares... changed the tires ourselves while the tire guy was mounting new ones on the rims).

She and I have driven straight through to Tulsa, Oklahoma before too.

BAMspek@reddit

12 hours from Colorado to California. And then the same back. I do it every couple years to visit friends back home.

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SeesawSudden8304@reddit

About five hours each way to pick up a puppy!

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Reverend_Bull@reddit

Not terribly long (I've had far longer one-way trips) but I think my biggest round trip was 450 miles. I left home to the hospital in another state where Dad was dying, came back to my state and to another end of it to get a relative, brought said relative back home to prepare for Dad to die at home. Longest in miles, definitely long in emotion, but a good trip including an excellent memory of singing along with her to a song I didn't know she knew.

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cdsbigsby@reddit

15.5 hours straight through from Southern Ohio to Southern Mississippi.

Which shouldn't have taken that long, but this was in the days of printing off the MapQuest directions and occasionally referencing them while driving, and I took the wrong highway somewhere in Kentucky.

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Past-Apartment-8455@reddit

950 miles . The round trip was 1,800 miles to see my daughter and her husband

I've had quite a few 700 mile days when driving to see my family for an event.

snow

Although I forgot to check the forecast for where I was traveling to and hit snow in perhaps the worst vehicle. A MX-5

morning drive Or 150 miles for a soda. When I got back, went on another 150 drive to get pecans from a pecan orchard.

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slilianstrom@reddit

3hr each way for a job interview, which ended up being about five minutes or so

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Herr_Poopypants@reddit

Round trip: went from Northern NJ to middle Ohio and back in a day to buy a car. It was over 6 hours each way so about 13 hours of driving

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lisalef@reddit

By car, probably a 3 hour ride. Done that for both business and pleasure. By plane, from NY to NC for a business meeting. At least was the same time zone. Flying out on the first flight out of NY on a Tuesday AM for meetings all day Tuesday and Wednesday and then flying home Wed PM was rough.

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Rhubarb_and_bouys@reddit

Drove to NYC and because my cleaning ladies grandkids visited her and they wanted to see the Statue of Liberty but only had a single free day. It was about 4 hours each way.

I just waited while they took the ferry over (and ate some great food and visited some nice spots) and then picked them up and drove home.

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dystopiadattopia@reddit

Longest round trip in a car in one day was only 6 hours between DC and Philly.

Longest one way trip in a car in one day was 18 hours to Mississippi from DC.

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