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Re: Share your longest / craziest / most memorable DRIVES here
« Reply #100 on: June 17, 2014, 05:03:15 PM »
Once i got to cedar hill it was clear sailing!!!
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Re: Share your longest / craziest / most memorable DRIVES here
« Reply #101 on: June 17, 2014, 05:06:44 PM »
Fun thread to have revived :)

My craziest: Vegas to LA in just under 3 hours through fog thicker than I had ever seen before.
My longest single stretch: LA to Sacramento straight (over 5 hours)
My most memorable: Driving back from Medford, Oregon. On the way up we went through Avenue of the Giants which was amazing but on the way back we took the scenic route along the coast... It took 12+ hours of driving and we were exhausted by the end, but it was so worth it.

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Re: Share your longest / craziest / most memorable DRIVES here
« Reply #102 on: June 17, 2014, 05:46:44 PM »
I ran the Miami Half Marathon in the morning and then drove to Key West in the afternoon and made it back to FLL by 9:00 PM to catch my flight.
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Share your longest / craziest / most memorable DRIVES here
« Reply #103 on: June 17, 2014, 06:15:03 PM »
I ran the Miami Half Marathon in the morning and then drove to Key West in the afternoon and made it back to FLL by 9:00 PM to catch my flight.
Wow. When I ran the Miami marathon I deliberately booked my flight home for the next day and spent the afternoon sleeping by the pool. :)

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Re: Share your longest / craziest / most memorable DRIVES here
« Reply #104 on: June 18, 2014, 11:13:41 PM »
Drove from Mount Rushmore to yellowstone in 13 hours, straight. Was pitch black and purely dangerous. We were probe to hit many animals, B"H we made it there safely.
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Re: Share your longest / craziest / most memorable DRIVES here
« Reply #105 on: June 18, 2014, 11:20:27 PM »
Drove from Mount Rushmore to yellowstone in 13 hours, straight. Was pitch black and purely dangerous. We were probe to hit many animals, B"H we made it there safely.
Yeah, that stretch of road can be quite an adventure at night.
Still, 13 hours seems really long...

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Re: Share your longest / craziest / most memorable DRIVES here
« Reply #106 on: June 18, 2014, 11:31:45 PM »
From Chicago to lakewood in middle of a February snow storm. Unplowed roads. It took 16 hours

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Re: Share your longest / craziest / most memorable DRIVES here
« Reply #107 on: June 19, 2014, 12:39:38 AM »
One of my craziest drives was an ice-covered forest service road in Middle Of Nowhere, Vermont with a couple of nutty DDFers at 2am and sliding off the road Ice Road Truckers-style into a snowbank.

Another was speeding like a maniac down miles of deeply rutted dirt tracks in a remote area of the Tetons, chasing the sunrise. Was totally worth it though:


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Re: Share your longest / craziest / most memorable DRIVES here
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Re: Share your longest / craziest / most memorable DRIVES here
« Reply #110 on: June 19, 2014, 09:08:50 AM »
drove to Atlanta from nyc for a weekend
15 hours there and 16 hours back

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Re: Share your longest / craziest / most memorable DRIVES here
« Reply #111 on: June 19, 2014, 09:46:27 AM »
The road after Hana is amazing. Whoever said you can't go 100+ in Maui was wrong.
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Re: Share your longest / craziest / most memorable DRIVES here
« Reply #112 on: June 19, 2014, 11:32:39 AM »
Just over a month ago my friends and I were forced to ride down a 3000M mountain in Nepal on the roof of an old bus with weak brakes. There were steep drops just inches away from the bus tires, no guardrail obviously bus driver seemed to enjoy driving at high speeds the entire half hour journey - somehow buses and trucks coming the other direction managed to squeeze past us even though it was barely 1 lane wide.
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Re: Share your longest / craziest / most memorable DRIVES here
« Reply #114 on: April 16, 2015, 08:16:21 PM »
I did round trip

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Re: Share your longest / craziest / most memorable DRIVES here
« Reply #115 on: April 16, 2015, 08:29:25 PM »
Longest drive was from Toronto to Vail Colorado...
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Re: Share your longest / craziest / most memorable DRIVES here
« Reply #116 on: April 16, 2015, 08:34:01 PM »
I did round trip

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A drive from VIE to NUR would definitely count as long, is absolutely crazy and I'm sure it would be quite memorable... :P

(Assuming you meant NUE but I couldn't resist :) )

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Re: Share your longest / craziest / most memorable DRIVES here
« Reply #117 on: April 16, 2015, 08:35:48 PM »
A drive from VIE to NUR would definitely count as long, is absolutely crazy and I'm sure it would be quite memorable... :P

(Assuming you meant NUE but I couldn't resist :) )
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Re: Share your longest / craziest / most memorable DRIVES here
« Reply #118 on: April 16, 2015, 09:30:29 PM »
My longest and craziest drive was from NY to North East Canada in a week. Almost 3,500 miles of road trip.

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Re: Share your longest / craziest / most memorable DRIVES here
« Reply #119 on: April 17, 2015, 12:03:42 AM »
A few years ago I was called in to drive for a high school camp from monsey to Los Angeles via Indianapolis, St Louis, Denver for Shabbos, Grand Canyon, Los Angeles for second Shabbos, all the way through Mount Rushmore, Chicago, third shabbos in Detroit, and back to New York. 3 weeks. Awsome.  Would have made one heck of a trip report!