Longest you've driven without sleep breaks?

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stag3

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LA to raleigh, NC, roughly 34 hours
i started seeing things when i hit Tennessee (oh how i hate Tennessee, longest state ever)
 

Elganja

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tampa, fl to northern va ... about 12-13 hours and 1000miles.

took a flight at 6am to tampa; left tampa around 10ish (when I bought my z06) and drove straight home.
 
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amdhunter

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Longest I've ever driven was around 4 hours in a single stretch (~200 miles.) I don't ever want to do that again.
 

Eli

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25-26 hours.

Santa Fe to Portland and vice versa. ~1425 miles. Done it several times.
 
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Kabob

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Only about 10 hours for me. When I was in college I could seriously only go about 3 hours at night before getting worn out.
 

HAL9000

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I've just looked it up and it would take me 14.5 hours to drive from the bottom of England to the top of Scotland...
 

PricklyPete

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I did some pretty ridiculous 30+ runs in college when I'd go cross country during the summer...but I just prefer not to do it anymore...I just don't feel safe.
 

compman25

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1075 miles, from Billings MT to Kansas City. Not too hard of a trip other than fixing my logs to make it look like it took 2 days. Good thing no scales were open the whole way.
 

ElFenix

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I've just looked it up and it would take me 14.5 hours to drive from the bottom of England to the top of Scotland...

didn't top gear do that in a porsche vs. a letter they'd mailed?
 

alfa147x

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I do a 4 hour round trip every weekend. I think my longest is 5:30 min drive but add 2 hours for traffic :\
 

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By myself was from Iowa City, IA to Tucumcari, NM. A little under 1000 miles and around 14 hours. My sister and I split driving duties with a non stop drive from Peoria, IL to Phoenix. That was about 24 hours and not something I would ever do again. Even with tradeoffs we were running on fumes that last 4 hours across northern AZ and down I-17 into Phoenix.
 
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Drove from Vegas to Atlanta; a good friend went with me but couldn't drive a manual, so I did all the driving.

I believe it took us 36 hours, this was non-stop driving other than food (quick breakfast/lunch, decent sit down dinner) and 4-5 hours of sleep at some no-name hotel (kinda funny, we checked in at 8am, checkout was 10.. The guy let us hideout in a room for a nap)

It was a ton of fun..
 

Zap

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audiobooks are your friend. Music will lull you to sleep, but intellectually interesting things help immensely.

This is exactly what I do, listen to audiobooks. Great for long drives!

Strangely, I can do shorter drives (few hours) without having the radio on at all. :confused:

Jackson, MS to Vail, CO... somewhere around 23-24 hours

That's similar to my longest solo. I did Denver, CO to Jackson, MS.

I've also done most of Wisconsin (from South of Milwaukee) to Denver, minus an hour or two napping. Also have done Denver, CO to San Diego, CA and back a few times. Also have done San Diego, CA to Portland, OR a few times.
 

T2urtle

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some of you guys make some crazy ass trips.

Most i've done was like maybe 9-11 hours.

Wisconson dells, left at 2pm with 4 in the car. stoped in chicago to drop everyone off this was like maybe 5-6pm and then my solo trip home detroit. chicago to the D, is about 300-350. to the dells is about 250. So all in all 500 miles. that was more then what i wanted to do.
 

busydude

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I drove for 10 hours both ways from Lincoln, NE to Carbondale, IL. Also, I drove for 9 hours from Toledo, OH to Carbondale, IL.
 

ashishmishra

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Dallas, TX to Durham, NC and back about 4 times (~1200 miles). My worst time all by myself was 21hrs coming back to Dallas, due to a very heavy night-time thunderstorm throughout NC & TN and a FWD G6 GXP rental car that was particularly fond of hydroplaning. The best time I have managed so far on that drive is 17.5 Hrs.
 

IronWing

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For me, the deadly hours are from about 9pm to 10:30pm, my normal bedtime. Once I get past that my body is like "Oh, I guess we aren't going to sleep afterall" and my mind clears and I'm good for the rest of the night until about 6am when my body tells my brain to piss off, it's going to bed.