Driving Cross Country

[Guest JangoFett4Hire]

I'm considering a cross country trip and am interested if anyone else has

done it, or even a trip across a few states. i'm just trying to gage how long

it might take and how much it might cost.

[Guest Grenouille]

Check out mapquest.com. You can see how many miles you need to travel and it will give you and estimate of time.

[Guest Incandenza]

The gas will be a bitch, obviously. Longest road trip I ever took was from Jacksonville, Florida to Providence, Rhode Island. We (two friends and myself) were fortunate enough to have free places to stay along the way.

[Guest Big Poppa Popick]

My trips:

 

Atlanta to New Orleans to Houston to Dallas to Austin to San Antonio to Corpus Christi to South Padre Island to New Orleans to Atlanta

 

Atlanta to DC to New York and back to Atlanta

 

Canada by way of Texas

 

I'm headed to tampa in a few...

 

so if theres anything youd want to know, those are just a few, im quite experienced in this

[Guest Kinetic]

I was going to take a trip that would start a week from yesterday. Sadly, that was not to be.

[Guest Incandenza]

A footnote to my earlier post, the trip went like this:

 

Jacksonville to Springfield, Virginia (overnight) to Providence, Rhode Island (three nights) to New York City (three nights) to Bethesda, Maryland (two nights) to Jacksonville.

[Guest JangoFett4Hire]

What did you guys do for food? Stock up in the cooler or live off of fast food? How many hours did you average driving per day? Did you spread it out, or drive as much as you could to get there ASAP?

[Guest HBK16]

I am suppose to go on a road trip nest summer to. From Phoenix to Oregon. It should be fun though. Quite expensive but we have money saved up for it already.

[Guest Incandenza]

When it came to food, we ate very cheaply. In addition to being fortunate enough to have free places to stay, we encountered people who willingly fed us for free. One friend's cousin in Springfield treated us to dinner at Outback Steakhouse; the other friend's uncle took us to a Mexican restaurant (the name of which escapes me) as we were passing through Baltimore.

 

As for drive time, we did very little fooling around. Sometimes, curiousity got the better of us, and we spent a couple of hours in Philadelphia. Usually we were all business.

[Guest razazteca]

I went from Texas to Florida in roughly 14 hours straight for Spring Break. From San Angelo to Panama City is a damn long ride, but it was well worth it! Especially seeing Flair vs Mysterio live.

 

About $60 in gas but of course I have a small compact car, Toyoda has always been go to me.

[Guest Big Poppa Popick]

packed lunches

empty cups for peeing

lots of gas money

[Guest MrRant]

I've done Seattle to Vegas a few times. As well as Seattle to LA of course and points inbetween.

[Guest The Metal Maniac]

I've gone (not driven) from Nova Scotia to Alberta. That's almost the length of Canada.

 

It took us about 4 days, if I recall correctly. But since we had about 4 drivers, they'd rotate. They'd take turns sleeping, so we only had to stop overnight once. Fuck, sleeping in the back of a crowded van sucks balls...

 

We packed a bunch of food, and would just pull over to some rest spot, bust out the cooler and eat. No fast food for us, bay-bee!

 

I suppose if you wanna be REALLY cheap about places to stay, depending on how many people you have, you could always pull over and sleep in the car, if you don't have enough drivers to go all night. Can't imagine it'd be too pleasent though...