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How far should one drive in a day?

Chilli.s said:
For a long drive I like to get up at 3:30 and go. Those early hours when there's very little traffic seem to eat up the miles much more easily
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I had various stops along the way (popping into see people and a few appointments etc) which I feel makes it much more tiring, than one long drive.
 
Probably 300 in a day would be my preferred limit - don't need to do that very often, I'm driving to Yorkshire in September, but just checked and it is only about 240 miles - did that drive last year and was fairly knackered towards the end - despite a couple of pit stops.
 
The seat on my bike suddenly gets rather uncomfortable on one's arse after being on it for any longer than 90-odd minutes, so whenever I'm on a trip I take multitude of rest stops whether I want to or not :D
 
Longest journey I’ve done is 350 m from Dorset to Newcastle. It nearly broke me.
I now realise I just can’t do that length of drive in one day, it sends my brain screwy and I get tired really quickly so max 4 hours for me.

Next time we go to Newcastle, I’ll stop over somewhere nice on the way.
 
not-bono-ever said:
600 miles to maybe 800 miles a day is my limit really, depending on the roads etc. did a 1200 km across Europe recently but autoroute and autobahn most of the way
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I think that's about right. On road trips I try to limit driving to 6-8hrs a day with stops every couple of hours.

I drove to Scotland last year and could've done London to Edinburgh quite easily but I was having fun and stopped in York overnight. Driving tired is shit.
 
I did 300 miles yesterday from home to house. I took about six hours including two stops. I used to do it about 20 years ago in 4½ hours non-stop. Now I'm not in such a rush, and cameras.

In the past I would drive for up to 10 hours at a time. I'd stop every three hours for a break.

I'm really not up to this and don't want to do it any more.
 
I really don’t know how you can all do these long trips, especially on motorways. I wish I could do a bit more but I’m happy I’ve realised I can’t without something awful happening.
 
In my foolish youth, two of us shared the driving from Balham to Gryon in Switzerland in a day (ferry, not chunnel). Google maps tells me that's 608 miles. The last bit up the mountain was in thick fog which was interesting.
 
Oh yeah, on a work trip in my mid-20's had to drive from Gananoque to Lake Placid, ~150 miles / 3 hours. Long before sat nav, the simpleton I was travelling with was doing the map-reading.

110 miles in we approach Syracuse.

"Kieron, wtf are we doing in Syracuse, it's totally the wrong way from Lake Placid?"

"Lake Placid isn't marked on the map." was his fucking reply.

"Kieron, regardless of the fact that having hosted the Winter Olympics TWICE and so will be on the fucking map, why did you not mention that you couldn't find it? What was the plan, to drive around the USA and hope to bump in to it at some point?"


So now there's a >200 miles drive from Syracuse to LP, it's winter, the night is drawing in and it's foggy all the way, and of course, LP is in the mountains so twisty, icy roads.
 
I do North Yorkshire to Herts all the time. It only takes 2h50 with the wind behind you. No stops! If I have to it's Markham Moor because it's so easy to get back on the road again.
The longest I've driven by myself was Porlock to Loch Tay. I started at 4am and did it in around 11 hours with lots of wee stops and chomping through a selection of mints from the petrol station.
 
My 'normal' long drive is Worcester to Glasgow - takes 5-6 hours, usually stop once somewhere around Lancaster. When I lived in Glasgow I used to drive down to Warminster, and Bridport - Bridport would take about 8 hours.

Since I've started working in Poland I've driven back and forth a few times, but 1200 miles is a long way - it's quite doable over two days, but that's leaving at 5am or so, staying overnight in Belgium or wherever, and getting home at 8pm or whatever, and being utterly knackered.

I fly. I can't be arsed with the aggro...
 
Bahnhof Strasse said:
Oh yeah, on a work trip in my mid-20's had to drive from Gananoque to Lake Placid, ~150 miles / 3 hours. Long before sat nav, the simpleton I was travelling with was doing the map-reading.

110 miles in we approach Syracuse.

"Kieron, wtf are we doing in Syracuse, it's totally the wrong way from Lake Placid?"

"Lake Placid isn't marked on the map." was his fucking reply.

"Kieron, regardless of the fact that having hosted the Winter Olympics TWICE and so will be on the fucking map, why did you not mention that you couldn't find it? What was the plan, to drive around the USA and hope to bump in to it at some point?"


So now there's a >200 miles drive from Syracuse to LP, it's winter, the night is drawing in and it's foggy all the way, and of course, LP is in the mountains so twisty, icy roads.
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I was at an event in Manhattan, and the hosts supplied cars for everyone to get home. I was staying with a relative in Newark, and when the car arrived the driver confirmed my name and I replied "yes, Newark" so I assumed he knew where we were going.

I fell asleep in the back of the car and realised we'd been driving for over an hour and asked where we were. He said "just outside Lebanon". I was confused and eventually realised that the dickhead had driven straight past Newark and we were in Pennsylvania. I asked him why he'd gone so far past Newark, and he said he figured I'd tell him where to leave the motorway. 🤷‍♀️
 
The furthest I've ever driven in one day was from home in the East Midlands to Nairn in Scotland which is 441 miles and took me around 10 or 11 hours (including a couple of stops)
 
Bahnhof Strasse said:
Oh yeah, on a work trip in my mid-20's had to drive from Gananoque to Lake Placid, ~150 miles / 3 hours. Long before sat nav, the simpleton I was travelling with was doing the map-reading.

110 miles in we approach Syracuse.

"Kieron, wtf are we doing in Syracuse, it's totally the wrong way from Lake Placid?"

"Lake Placid isn't marked on the map." was his fucking reply.

"Kieron, regardless of the fact that having hosted the Winter Olympics TWICE and so will be on the fucking map, why did you not mention that you couldn't find it? What was the plan, to drive around the USA and hope to bump in to it at some point?"


So now there's a >200 miles drive from Syracuse to LP, it's winter, the night is drawing in and it's foggy all the way, and of course, LP is in the mountains so twisty, icy roads.
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In my mind any North American road trip into the night ends with a breakdown, terror sprints through misty trees pursued by armed murderers
 
My furthest drive is from Bournemouth to Ambleside in the Lakes. About 330miles

The drive Chicago O'Hare to Madison WI, 160Miles but on that was the 'wrong' side of the road in sleet, after a 9-hour flight and a 2-hour drive to Heathrow . Looking back about 20 years it is pretty much at the top of my list of stupid things I've done. I arrived safely, and no near misses, but I was extremely tired and no way I'd do it now.
 
The longest distance will have been Hamburg to Rye, about 550 miles, though a couple of times I've done a 500 mile round trip to the dentist in one day. The longest in time was the usually 4 hour drive from where I used to live to where I am now - fucking motorway closed and it took 10 hours. I had to hang my head out the window to keep myself awake - I had the cat and dog with me, they were going spare after all that time so I felt I had to keep going. Probably not at my decision-making best by then.
 
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