Author Topic: Share your longest / craziest / most memorable DRIVES here (Read 50279 times)

Achas Veachas · « **Reply #80 on:** January 04, 2013, 09:13:32 AM »

Quote from: whYME on January 04, 2013, 03:12:05 AM

On the way here: (the major stops)
NY > MKE > ORD > Bryce Canyon NP > Zion NP > LAX > Berkeley

For the way back I'll probably do
Berkeley > Yellowstone / Grand Teton > Mt Rushmore (maybe Wind Cave if there's time) > Badlands > MKE > NY > Cape Cod

I guess this update is a few months overdue...
That drive back from CA to NY is definitely my current craziest drive.

My itinerary ended up being
Berkeley > Yellowstone / Grand Teton > Mt Rushmore (+ some smaller attractions in the black hills area) > Badlands > MKE > NY (for a few hours) > Cape Cod
What made it particularly crazy was that we left Berkeley Tues. evening and didn't stop (other than for the attractions, gas etc.) until we hit Milwaukee Friday morning. -which wouldn't have been so crazy in of itself, had I not done it with my wife and 3 small children. (ages barely 2 - 6 at the time)

Wow got me jealous! On both legs.

DH Data Recovery · « **Reply #81 on:** January 04, 2013, 09:25:20 AM »

me and a friend Hungary - Ukraine - poland - Czech - Slovakia - Poland - Austria - Hungary in less than a week in a smart car

MosheP · « **Reply #82 on:** January 04, 2013, 10:26:00 AM »

Quote from: Ebaystores on October 24, 2012, 06:36:34 PM

Craziest trip for me: I was driving to Atlanta from NY 10 years ago to register my car there, I left wed. night with only my 13 year old brother for company, got a ticket for speeding and got to Atlanta at 6 am. Spent the day hanging out and then headed back that night with only an hours sleep and needing to get back to NY for shabbos. So as soon as it got dark, I feel exhausted, and keep needing to pull onto the shoulder for catnaps. So I took some nodoz, but that didnt help. So by the next truck stop I asked them for something that would wake me up saying nodoz didnt help. They said yeah, it never worked for me, try this and gave me something called "black Ice" an over the counter natural thingie. WEll I took it, and 20 minutes later pulled over for another nap. Next thing I know, I am driving in the left lane, and my mind seemed brain washed, my mind kept telling me "nothing is true except you can slow down under 60 or go over 75, at which point I realized that this is insane but couldnt seem to get out of this mode for what felt like hours! After I managed to "deprogram" myself I realized I was driving like that for 5 miles based on the mile marker where I pulled over for my nap. Ever since then I avoid all those "natural" pills. Although for the record, A friend of mine, who I told the story to purposefully tried to take no doz and black ice together but did not get any reaction.

You may want to refer your friend here

yehuda S · « **Reply #83 on:** February 19, 2013, 10:54:32 AM »

This was a very short but very memorable drive.

One day my friend and myself were standing outside yeshiva when I spotted this car driving toward us:

Upon a sudden impulse I stuck out my thumb. The car whispered to the curb and the window rolled down. A friendly guy leaned over and asked where we were going. Mind racing I blurted out "7-11!".

And that is how I snagged a ride in the brand new $470,000 Rolls Royce Phantom to 7-11.

That is also how I learned my most momentous life lesson: Ask and thou shalt receive.

sky121 · « **Reply #84 on:** February 19, 2013, 10:56:37 AM »

Great story!

outsider · « **Reply #85 on:** February 19, 2013, 10:56:53 AM »

Quote from: yehuda S on February 19, 2013, 10:54:32 AM

This was a very short but very memorable drive.

One day my friend and myself were standing outside yeshiva when I spotted this car driving toward us:

Upon a sudden impulse I stuck out my thumb. The car whispered to the curb and the window rolled down. A friendly guy leaned over and asked where we were going. Mind racing I blurted out "7-11!".

And that is how I snagged a ride in the brand new $470,000 Rolls Royce Phantom to 7-11.

That is also how I learned my most momentous life lesson: Ask and thou shalt receive.

Sweet!

outsider · « **Reply #86 on:** February 19, 2013, 10:57:54 AM »

Quote from: outsider on February 19, 2013, 10:56:53 AM

Sweet!

The steering wheel is on the right side so is it england? give a hint

yehuda S · « **Reply #87 on:** February 19, 2013, 10:59:42 AM »

Quote from: outsider on February 19, 2013, 10:57:54 AM

The steering wheel is on the right side so is it england? give a hint

Not England. * Stock Photo* - Good ol' USA

Bostener · « **Reply #88 on:** February 19, 2013, 11:13:13 AM »

Quote from: DH Data Recovery on January 04, 2013, 09:25:20 AM

me and a friend Hungary - Ukraine - poland - Czech - Slovakia - Poland - Austria - Hungary in less than a week in a smart car

Did you have normal facilities in Ukraine, Slovakia and Czech?
What about normal showers?
You must have been so exhausted.

DH Data Recovery · « **Reply #89 on:** February 19, 2013, 03:25:53 PM »

Slovakia and Czech - Yes, Both are fairly modernized in certain areas. Had some great stories in Slovakia. Ukraine - stayed by someone that still used an outhouse

jj1000 · « **Reply #90 on:** February 21, 2013, 11:44:16 AM »

Can't believe I forgot to mention a bunch of erev shabbos driving in NYC stories. I think the most memorable was driving a packed 15 passenger van from 770 to the ohel in under 20 minutes door to door. With Friday traffic of course. I have 14 witnesses

I must mention that I had a lot of experience driving 15 P's before this, and would not suggest anyone to drive one in NY for their first time...

Achas Veachas · « **Reply #91 on:** February 21, 2013, 12:03:50 PM »

Oh don't get me started on drives back from Mivtzoim 10 minutes to Shkia...

Suave · « **Reply #92 on:** February 21, 2013, 12:10:06 PM »

Was cheuffeurd around Los Angeles in a Phantom.

When I was 14, my father and I were driving down (12 hours or so) a rural highway in Russia. Every so often there would be this ghetto rest area - which basically consists of a hut selling water and nosh, an outhouse or hole in the ground, and a grill. Every rest area I would notice bunch of feral dogs hanging around the grill.

At one point near the end of the trip I noticed that one rest area wasn't grilling anything, I asked my dad why to which he answers; see any dogs around? There is nothing to grill anymore.

For several years after that I went around believing that Russian rednecks eat feral dogs.

AJK · « **Reply #93 on:** February 21, 2013, 01:07:53 PM »

Quote from: sky121 on February 19, 2013, 10:56:37 AM

Great story!

+1 - like this!

az · « **Reply #94 on:** February 21, 2013, 01:34:58 PM »

i drove a hybrid cadillac escalade from Manhattan to Miami beach before Pesach, longest stop was in Georgia to sleep for an hour, and back after,
and from phoenix AZ to the Grand Canyon and back threw Sedona, highly recommended

Drago · « **Reply #95 on:** March 02, 2013, 04:30:05 PM »

Anyone up to matching this?
http://gentlemanadventurer.travellerspoint.com/185/

Drive through Siberia in the dead winter...

Suave · « **Reply #96 on:** March 03, 2013, 02:31:57 AM »

Quote from: Drago on March 02, 2013, 04:30:05 PM

Anyone up to matching this?
http://gentlemanadventurer.travellerspoint.com/185/

Drive through Siberia in the dead winter...

Funny, I was just discussing doing this trip with my dad, lots of Jews were killed on the kolyma highway.

(My dads classmate is a bigwig in magadan, we were planning on starting from there)

Achas Veachas · « **Reply #97 on:** June 17, 2014, 04:45:18 PM »

username · « **Reply #98 on:** June 17, 2014, 04:52:22 PM »

Downtown Cle to Cle Heights via Carnegie. Usually 30 minutes. Over 3 hrs in an insane snowstorm that just killed the drive home. bad plowing, gridlock, a bunch of cars stopped out of gas, horrible.Now at least i know some alternates.

kracked dude · « **Reply #99 on:** June 17, 2014, 04:57:41 PM »

Quote from: username on June 17, 2014, 04:52:22 PM

Downtown Cle to Cle Heights via Carnegie. Usually 30 minutes. Over 3 hrs in an insane snowstorm that just killed the drive home. bad plowing, gridlock, a bunch of cars stopped out of gas, horrible.Now at least i know some alternates.

You got up Cedar Hill okay?