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Fargo North Dakota to Manhattan, non-stop except for coffee and bathroom breaks. I got a "2nd wind" 4 or 5 times based on massive coffee intake. At one point in Pennsylvania I almost gave up, I was absolutely exhausted and hit a wall. But then NJ appeared and I made the last final push. I was in my 20s, so that will never happen again.
It was winter, in the 1980's. I was in NJ, and wanted to go to California. Didn't really care where in California. I was unemployed and living off unemployment. I had a small cheap car with low payments. It was a stick shift. The seat would recline all the way back. I started by going south, to Jacksonville, FL. I figured as long as it didn't really matter where I went, I might as well go to some place warmer than NJ. I had another reason to want to go to Jacksonville, but it didn't really matter, and I only needed to be there for about an hour. I could skip Jacksonville if I wanted to, but wasn't in a hurry and had no place to go in a hurry, but just a general aim of going to California. I slept in rest areas. By going to Jacksonville, I could cross the country on I-10, which was presumably not as impacted by winter, and could sleep in rest areas without freezing. The part of the trip I remember the most was seeing the stars from the high elevation near El Paso. I never saw so many beautiful stars that looked so close and made me feel almost surrounded by stars.
I feel like a wuss compared to some of the marathon drivers on here, but my longest drives were probably a tie between from Denver to St. Louis, and Denver to the Arizona Renaissance Festival. I think the times were about the same, around 12 hours (but I was travelling with other people both times, so stops happened, so hard to say for sure.)
I do have a fantasy of having the time and money to do a drive from something like Seattle to Miami, or Boston to San Diego, just because I think it'd be interesting to note the changes as you go. I get some of that going from Denver to St. Louis and back (the geography of the two places is different enough to note). Someday, I hope....
From Moncton, New Brunswick, to El Salvador, Central America, and return. 1964 Volvo.
Also, in a '71 Renault 6, from Paris to Turkey to Sweden to Paris.
And a '76 GMC Van from St. John's, Newfoundland, to California and then to Edmonton, Alberta, and back to Kansas.
By "one go" I presume you mean without going home in between, but not necessarily being on the road every day. The longest without even stopping to sleep would be Mobile Alabama to Seattle by myself.
I've been on a lot of trips of two weeks or more without ever sleeping in the same place two nights in a row.
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