gph
5:22 Tue Jul 23
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Good old Emmanuel.
How's Kalingrad nowadays?
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Admiral Lard
5:20 Tue Jul 23
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Currently in San Sebastian having left Kant on the 10th via Orleans, Bezier, Mora La Nove, Denia. Granada, Algondeles, Ayamonte, Salamanca and now Donisti SSB.
Drive back to Blighty tomorrow. C 3,300 miles over 16 days
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mr so & so
2:13 Tue Jul 23
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Nyc to San Diego. 9 days
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Agent Scud
1:50 Tue Jul 23
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Did 500 miles without stopping, never again. I generally quite enjoy driving, the time flies past.
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violator
1:35 Tue Jul 23
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Longest I've ever driven was to Somerton, it was in Mrs V's old KA though. Stopped at a pub just past Stonehenge on the A303 for a swift pint, paid with a fiver and got change for a score, splendid.
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ironsofcanada
1:14 Tue Jul 23
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joyo 1:10 Tue Jul 23
My brother did a culinary tour across Canada on the train, absolutely loved it.
But we were younger, poorer and moving for grad school, so could not afford to ship our stuff, unfortunately.
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gph
1:13 Tue Jul 23
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Erfurt to York. Well, actually York to Erfurt was just as long, but it wasn't done under such time pressure to catch a ferry.
Which I missed.
I was pleasantly surprised that the ferry's policy was to give you a free ticket on the next sailing if you missed your sailing by less than an hour. Provided there was space.
Fortunately, there was.
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joyo
1:10 Tue Jul 23
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Ironsofcanada fuck that l got train from Toronto to Edmonton then picked up car to Rockies
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ironsofcanada
1:08 Tue Jul 23
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Looking it up I guess that first trip I mentioned is well over 2000 miles. I knew it in clicks.
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ironsofcanada
1:02 Tue Jul 23
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Edmonton to Toronto, through the US rust belt (almost a couple thousand miles) in a decent sized U-haul was "interesting" at times but mostly enjoyable.
Had a 1000 mile, long distance relationship for a little bit. Mountain passes in a little pickup, during the winter was a little scary at times.
My sister lives in rural Manitoba, that drive from pretty much anywhere else big is the most boring thing you will probably experience.
That said, I do miss just being able to just get out and drive without thinking and with almost no one else on the road. I love the variety and beauty of all the little roads in the UK but it is not like you can safely zone out. Or you are on the cramped packed motorway.
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lowermarshhammer
12:48 Tue Jul 23
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Long drives in a car (that's UK long drive distance) are an absolute piece of piss compared to driving a fucking train for hours on end with no radio / music.
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Block
12:48 Tue Jul 23
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzz snore me later sold you boring prick
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New Jersey
12:42 Tue Jul 23
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Driven from Cairns to Sydney, thought it was pretty shit really, particularly when we had to go inland because of an accident, fucking deliverance country!
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Northern Sold
11:24 Tue Jul 23
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Longest trip did about 3500 miles in a 2 week period... San Diego-LA-Moneterey-San Fran-Napa-Yosemite-Arizona-Utah-Death valley-Vegas-LA....done some real back tracks... absolutely loved every mile of it...
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Chigwell
11:01 Tue Jul 23
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When I was about 10 in the early 1960s my parents decided to take the family in Dad's Morris Minor Traveller (the one with wood), towing a fold-down caravan, to southern Portugal for the summer holidays. I remember travelling on unsealed roads, seeing only peasants on their horses and carts, living off dried milk and Surprise peas, using water purification tablets in everything we drank, and having a great time doing it. That's a 4000 mile round trip in an old banger (well he did have the engine replaced with a reconditioned one) with two young kids on board.
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orwells tragedy
10:59 Tue Jul 23
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Did The Pacific Coast Highway, Portland Oregon down to San Diego via some of the national parks earlier this year on a motorbike, about 2000 miles, beautiful route. Also done round trip of South Island NZ, don't know how far that was though.
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Block
10:44 Tue Jul 23
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No, because I fucking hate driving mate.
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joe royal
10:42 Tue Jul 23
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Block 10:24 Tue Jul 23
You have obviously never driven in Scandinavia or the Baltic states then.
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Pi Alpha Nu
10:35 Tue Jul 23
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Washington to West Palm Beach.
I can't remember how many miles it was but we did it in under a day.
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Bungo
10:27 Tue Jul 23
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3 hours 10 mins to do 20 miles in London once.
That felt like the longest drive ever.
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Block
10:24 Tue Jul 23
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Couldn't think of anything worse than long distance driving.
Boring as fuck, the roads full of cunts.
Absolute YOURS, Royal.
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