Although when to comes to flying experiences I barely even enter the conversation with most of you guys here on this site, I think I can hold my own quite well when it comes to driving
I know the discussion here tends to revolve almost exclusively around flying, but I'm sure I can't be the only one here who's done some interesting drives...
So post your longest and/or craziest and/or most memorable drives here. (By crazy I don't mean dangerous, I'm not looking for something like "I once drove 100mph on a winding cliff road with no guardrail without wearing my seatbelt", I mean more like illogical)
I'll start off small:
My craziest (to date, hopefully I'll shatter it this summer) is probably when I stopped off in Miami for Pizza on my way from Satellite Beach, FL to Jacksonville, FL. (back in 2001)
One of my more memorable drives was
when my gps took me to a random spot on an unnamed dirt road in the middle of nowhere in a national forest where there was no cell reception for miles and my car was virtually out of gas...
For my longest I'll start with a few small things:
Longest single leg without stopping (i.e. without getting out of the car): roughly 5 1/2 hours (the most I was able to get out of one tank of gas). I'm actually kinda surprised at how few times I was able to pull that off, between stopping for gas where I know it's a lot cheaper and desperate bathroom breaks I've found it very rare to happen.
Longest stretch cruising at a steady speed, not touching the pedals or cruise control at all: The entire length of the Ohio turnpike from tollbooth to tollbooth (roughly 200 miles). I did it the night of Jan 1st this year. (I might've also done it the night of Dec 25th, but I wasn't paying attention until at least half way through...)
I'll save my longest overall (and a few more) for later...
What are yours?