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8 hour road trip, which poison would you pick?

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I'm going to assume you're going somewhere around Toronto since you're in NJ and you said 8 hours north, so what if you flew or took the Greyhound/train?

You could probably find a nice deal to fly into Buffalo and then rent a car to drive from there.
 
Originally posted by: loki8481
Originally posted by: NSFW
I would just skip it and go on a WoW raid.
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we don't raid on weekends anymore 😛 said trip would be a Friday morning -> Monday afternoon thing.
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Just hire a limo...maybe charter a helicopter?
 
Go with your sister/brother-in-law/niece, probably more interesting to talk to, and if you can't drive stick offer to pay for gas or something.

Good that you have a tolerable sister. Driving with my sister and nephew is a very unpleasant experience. It's gotten so bad that even though I have a full size car now, I refuse to take a trip with them.
 
Alone, when I lived in Hell (aka Ohio) I used to make the trek to FL once a month (14 1/2 hours each way). Its good for the soul sometimes....
 
I would definitely drive myself. After almost 20 years of driving around the country with my parents and sister, I don't think I could do more than a couple hours in a car with them anymore.
 
I don't like driving alone because I get bored and zone out too easy on long trips. With those choices though, I would probably drive it myself.
 
Myself. Bad parent music will make an 8 hour drive seem like 16 hours and a screaming baby will make it seem like 800 hours. 8 hours isn't bad at all. You do 4 hours, stop for lunch, get out and walk around a bit, then do the other 4. Anyone can do it.
 
I can't drive 8 hours by myself - even with an hour break halfway in between, I'd still likely fall asleep at the wheel. It's not pretty.

Then again, I don't have any problem being in a car for 8-hours with my family, so I guess we're in different situations.
 
At eight hours you'd be just getting comfortable in the seat. Remember the best way to overcome fatigue while driving is to drive faster. Crank the tunes and the eight hours might seem a lot more like six.
 
No headphones for an 8 hour drive because it makes you antisocial? That's the stupidest fuckin' thing I've ever heard.
 
If you drive by yourself and you think 8 hours is too much to drive, do it over 2 days. Go find something that's about half way to stop and that has something to see and make it a small sightseeing trip. Someone said you were going to Toronto? Stop at Niagra Falls and check it out. Stay the night and drive the second half the next morning. Makes the drive much less boring.
 
Another thing you could do is pull an all-nighter the night before and go with the parents so that you can sleep for a good chunk of the trip.
 
i'd go with the parents and sleep in the car or take a gadget to listen to music/do stuff on. yea, I saw the part about mom and headphones, but really what are they gonna do?
 
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