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What would you consider a long drive?

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Yea I don’t know if my plans are going to come through so I might not be going.

The road will be empty and it’s just interstate, 75mph, for 3 hours @LizKat

If I had a Tesla I could basically sleep in the back and get there it’s such a bland drive, no worries haha (kidding)
 
5 days, 3000 miles. Dallas > southern end of route 23 in Louisiana > Saint Louis > Minneapolis > Bismark (-14 degrees, wind chill -34), Bozeman > Reno > California
 
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Plutonius said:
Get someone else to drive and sleep on the trip.
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I wonder how much an uber/lyft would cost ... especially if $ isn't an issue. Though, every lyft/uber driver I've ever gotten really likes to talk. But that may help the time pass.
 
Hieveryone said:
Is 3 hours a long drive? How can someone make it go by fast?

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Audio Books: "Old Mans War" or anything read by Neal Patrick Harris or Patrick Stewart.
Funny Podcasts: I've found some hilarious Dungeons & Dragons podcasts that keep me laughing.

Long Drive to me (one day): >1000 miles or 15 hours.
Sunday Drive ( one day ): ~300 miles or 5 hours
 
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Long drive: you need to get a meal before arriving at your destination
Really long: two meals
A trip: need a hotel/motel

You can't make a 3-hour drive go by fast. If you did, that would be less than 3 hours. ;)
And, you might get a speeding ticket, making it take longer than 3 hours.
 
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Hieveryone said:
Is 3 hours a long drive? How can someone make it go by fast?

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Hey, I live in Texas. A long drive is anything over 7 hours. ;) Actually more than 3 is a chore. When I’m driving after dinner, I tune in Headline News (SiriusFM) and listen to Murder Mysteries. Talk radio or something like muder mysteries holds my attention, while music can make me drowsy after a while. Worst come to worse, coffee or 5 Hour Energy. The latter will pop your eyes open. :)

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BigMcGuire said:
I wonder how much an uber/lyft would cost ... especially if $ isn't an issue. Though, every lyft/uber driver I've ever gotten really likes to talk. But that may help the time pass.
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When I carpooled, I loved it when I wasn't driving and I could take a nap on the way to and from work :).
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Huntn said:
Hey, I live in Texas. A long drive is anything over 7 hours. ;) Actually more than 3 is a chore. When I’m driving after dinner, I tune in Headline News (SiriusFM) and listen to Murder Mysteries. Talk radio or something like muder mysteries holds my attention, while music can make me drowsy after a while. Worst come to worse, coffee or 5 Hour Energy. The latter will pop your eyes open. :)

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If it's anything like NH, your state library most likely streams audiobooks.
 
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Hieveryone said:
Is 3 hours a long drive? How can someone make it go by fast?

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For me anything over an hour would be too long, but it would most likely depend on traffic. I love to drive but not so much anymore because of the exponential pop growth around here. It used to be nice to drive.
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nbs2 said:
Are you driving through urban, suburban, or rural areas?

I’ve found that where I’m driving through can make the time fly by or feel like forever. You would think the variety of things would make an urban environment entertaining, but I find the traffic and interchanges to make the drive frustrating. A more rural drive with nice scenery and open roads, and one minute you are leaving, the next you have gone 9 hours.

Like others, a good audiobook or some company helps. Also nice is turning the drive into a checkpoint or two. I used to make a four hour drive on the regular, and had a pit stop at a specific gas station just over an hour into the drive. I continued the rest of the way after, but thought about the small town I would pass through. The return was the opposite - about three hours straight and then the pit stop an hour before home.

Wherever you are headed, hope you have fun!
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Yes even a millimeter on I-76 is ridiculous. Would never drive that road. Get stressed out just being a passenger.
 
Anything over 275 yards is pretty good for me. I've hit the ball over 300 on a couple of occasions. But in general, these days I focus more on accuracy and control rather than pure distance off the tee. Getting old, I guess.
 
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I consider 12-13 hours to be the max for one day. On long hauls I listen to podcasts and/or audiobooks. It all depends on what you’re used to. I know someone that drives a big rig for UPS. He drives 450 miles a day 4 days a week. When my son was repositioned from San Diego to Virginia he drove cross country in less than 48 hours.
 
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glenthompson said:
I consider 12-13 hours to be the max for one day. On long hauls I listen to podcasts and/or audiobooks. It all depends on what you’re used to. I know someone that drives a big rig for UPS. He drives 450 miles a day 4 days a week. When my son was repositioned from San Diego to Virginia he drove cross country in less than 48 hours.
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San Diego to Virginia in 48 hours is some serious seat time. Legend.

Good old days. I used to drive the 'round the world' 20 years ago. Miami -> San Francisco -> Seattle -> Vancouver -> Montreal -> Halifax -> Miami in 16-18 days depending on how fast I could switch trailers. Beautiful drive.
 
If I think about it back in Army days I drove from Rochester Ny (on the Ontario Southern Shore) to Augusta Georgia, when I came back from overseas, 14 hour drive (by myself)!
 
I drove from Washington DC to Dallas Tx and back to DC 32 hour straight. Went there for a Car Audio show and found out my best friend had been killed in a car accident when I got to my hotel. Not a fun drive.
 
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mrsmith1 said:
I was always struck by what an American friend of mine once said, "to an American, a hundred miles is nothing, to a Brit a hundred years is nothing"
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Yep-assuming I actually return to the office before I change jobs in August, more than likely I'll be dong a 60 mile each way commute every day. I've done it before-it's not great but it's more than doable.

On the other hand, I regularly use objects that are over 100 years old and people are constantly amazed at the fact that they're functional, much less perfectly usable.
 
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