1,000 miles, 13-plus hours

Ann Arbor to Minneapolis -- 9 1/2 hours, 700 miles, in the rain/sleet. And I almost hit a deer in Wisconsin.

 

Lexington, KY to Tampa, FL for the Outback Bowl. Split driving duties with a friend...I think he drove through Georgia because of my lead foot.

 

Who knew Columbia, Mo., was the center of the long-driving universe?

 

When I moved out here, I drove Texas to Kansas (11 hours), packed some in Kansas, got around four hours of sleep, got up, got coffee and got back in my car for a nice 13-hour jaunt to Kentucky. 24 hours in a car in 36, all by myself.

By the way, Western Oklahoma is the most boring stretch of land in the world. If you break down on I-40 anywhere between OKCity and Amarillo, you're fucked because the cell signal around there sucks as well.

 

Suburban NYC to Chicagoland: 13 hours.
Less than 48 hours later, Chicagoland to Fort Collins, Colo.: 15 hours.

Great seats made for a good ride - especially strange considering my knees usually creak like a dry door hinge after about an hour.

 

IJAG, was that when our beloved UK won the Outback?

 

No, it was when your beloved Wildcats got their asses handed to them by Penn State.

Mmmmm LaVar Arrington.

 

The most strenuous days of my road trip to the Far North:

Day 1: Bradenton, Fla., to Nashville, Tenn.; 748 miles.
Day 2: Nashville to Madison, Wis.; 621 miles.
Day 3: Madison to Fargo, N.D.; 504 miles.
Day 4: Fargo to Regina, Saskatchewan; 514 miles.
Day 5: Regina to Whitecourt, Alberta; 955 kilometers.
Day 6: Whithouse to Fort Nelson, B.C.; 856 km.

Also:
Fairbanks, Alaska, to Deadhorse, Alaska; 526 treacherous miles, mostly of poorly maintained gravel. Retrurn trip made less than 10 hours later on no sleep.

 

IJAG, Lavar Arrington? Seriously?

My longest drive was from Hodgenville to Frankfort, Ky, then on to Dayton, Ohio, to pick up furniture with the then-girlfriend.

Either that or from Hodgenville to Glendale, Ky, then on to Hoover or Pelham, Ala., on the way to Panama City Beach last summer.

 

KY, I have a type. It's pretty much LaVar and Marcellus Wiley.

Everyone else is playing for distant second.

 

Damn. There goes my shot.

 

Omaha to Arlington, Va. -- 1,154 miles or 18 hours 9 minutes as the Google flies.

Did that twice; once for a soccer game, once for a wedding.