What's your longest trek?

[Little lunch]

When I found out my dad was dying I travelled from Perth to Mackay which is a little under 5000 kms.
It took me three days with two naps in the car.

One time I took a bus from Adelaide to Mildura for fruit picking work and got kicked off the bus at Kingston on Murray for punching this obnoxious guy in the head.
Dead broke, I walked for two days with one kip under a tree, no food and only muddy river water to drink.
Boy, did I feel sorry for myself then. :-)

[Anomalocaris]

My utopia is flying if the turbulence was 100% gone. Since it isn't I still hate both flying and driving.

I find that most of the time people who bothered by turbulence say its because they're afraid it will damage the plane and cause an accident. So I tell them that if you put enough G's on the plane to break the wings and make it fall out of the sky, those G's would have killed you before anything on the plane let loose. Funny but knowing that doesn't seem to make them feel better.

Not true.  5 Gs will fatally damage commercial passenger aircraft.    8-9 Gs will disintegrate passenger aircraft in mid flight.   However humans can remain conscious for short periods in 9Gs and potentially survive up to 20 Gs.

The reality is most strapped in passengers in a commercial airliner are likely to not only survive but remain conscious through the midair disintegration of passenger aircraft.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

My utopia is flying if the turbulence was 100% gone. Since it isn't I still hate both flying and driving.

I find that most of the time people who bothered by turbulence say its because they're afraid it will damage the plane and cause an accident. So I tell them that if you put enough G's on the plane to break the wings and make it fall out of the sky, those G's would have killed you before anything on the plane let loose. Funny but knowing that doesn't seem to make them feel better.

They need to keep in mind that during the landing the pilot is TRYING TO HIT THE GROUND.

[Angrboda]

I did a lot of traveling with family when I was young. Including annual trips to Oklahoma to visit relatives. Can't say what the longest trek was though, and most were broken up into parts with intervening periods of sleep. Probably the longest single stretch was when my father and I would drive from Minnesota to Oklahoma on the way to Texas in essentially one stretch, alternating driving.

[Seraphina]

When I moved to California in 1999 I packed whatever I could fit into my car and drove solo from upstate NY to Sacramento, no cell phone, and this was before GPS was available.
It took me about $95 in gas (cheap back then) and 50 hours total stretched out over 5 days because I only drove during daylight hours. I stayed in hotels in podunk towns off the freeway at night.

-Teresa

Did you stay at the Bates Motel? 

Jeezus, thanks in advance for the nightmares tonight, Gawdilla

-Teresa

[chimp3]

Flew from Phoenix to Boston. Spent a week visiting family. Then rode a Greyhound bus from Boston to Spokane, Wa. Hitched a ride to the Colville National Forest and spent a week backpacking and hanging at a Rainbow Gathering. Then Hitchhiked to Eugene Oregon and caught a plane to Phoenix. During the stopover in San Fransisco I met Father Guido Sarducci. An elderly women thought he was a real priest and asked him to hear her confession. And he did. This was my summer on the road.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Did you stay at the Bates Motel? 

Jeezus, thanks in advance for the nightmares tonight, Gawdilla

-Teresa

Just one more cervix we offer.

[Anomalocaris]

Flew from New York to Phoenix, drove to flagstaff visiting montazuma castle and Tuzegoot national monuments along the way.   From flagstaff drove to visit meteror crater, petrified forest national monument, painted desert national park, Grand Canyon National Park, came back to flagstaff, visited Lowell observatory where Pluto was discovered and hiked San Francisco peaks.  Drove to Phoenix, from there to Tucson, visiting Kitt peak national observatory and casa grande national monument on the way.   From Tucson drove to Tombstone, Az, visited and took extensive night time photos of the OK correl.   From Tucson drove to and across Hoover Dam, up to Death Valley National Park, hiked around and visited Badwater basin, the lowest spot on the American continent.   From there drove to the foot of Mt Whitney, waved hello to Mt Whitney, the highest point in lower 48 states, then drove up the Owen valley to Yosemite,  camped there for 3 day’s, hiked up Yosemite falls and half dome.  From there drove to LA, visited Hollywood, watched a movie in grumman’s Chinese theater, took pictures of our feet in numerous stupid foot prints, visited strip joint on the strip.  Drove back east to jashua tree national park, drove back towards Arizona, visited a town with a census population of 4, used its only public restroom, finally drove back to Phoenix and flew back to New York.

That was my first ever trip west of Mississippi other than to Alaska.  It was made in a extra cheap rental car place that rents refurbished cars with more than 100000 miles on them.  The price of $10 a day looked good to our college wallets.   When the car overheated in the Death Valley we were foolish enough to think it was funny.   The owner didn’t think it was funny when we brought it back after 20 day’s having put almost 5000 more miles on it and paid him $200.

To this day I retain fond memory of that car, having pissed out of the window of no other mode of transportation while moving at speed yet in my life.

[The Grand Nudger]

Pristina to Tampa Bay, by way way Of Rein Main and New York. 26 hours.

[Whateverist]

On foot, about 50 miles in the summer of 1992 hiking from Mammoth Lake into Yosemite Valley with the wife and high school aged kiddo in about 10 days.

Probably the year before, I hiked 30+ miles along the Paria river from Colorado into Arizona in four days with my brother, stepson and a nephew.

By car it was a trip I took when I finished my B.A. with the wife & my stepson.  We took a month to tour the national parks and monuments across the southwest, up the Rockies as far as Jasper in Canada, to western coast of Vancouver island and then south again to California with multi-day back packing trips through the Hall's Creek Narrows in Capital Reef N.P., Utah; the Cirque of the Towers in the Wind River range, Wyoming; and at Hot Springs Cove on the north western edge of Vancouver Island in Canada.  Lots of day hikes throughout.  Not sure of the total distance but there were lots of side trips.  Wouldn't care to do it again, but definitely enjoyed it then.