# And I would drive five hundred miles...

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**Created:** [June 15, 2003, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-i-would-drive-five-hundred-miles/181962 "2003-06-15T04:40:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-i-would-drive-five-hundred-miles/181962/21 "2003-06-16T02:14:16Z")

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Oh - I’m making my NYTX trip again in four weeks. I’m going to try to make it past Chattanooga on the first day, see if I can’t do it in a day and a half instead of two full days.

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**Author:** ![LtningBug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@LtningBug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LtningBug)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-i-would-drive-five-hundred-miles/181962/22 "2003-06-16T02:34:30Z")

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Congrats on making it in one piece, **andygirl**! And much faster than walking those 500 miles, too :).

I’ve done the Denver, CO to Seattle, WA drive three times (twice going west and once going east) by myself, taking 2 and a half days each time. I discovered that even though my car’s speedometer overreads by 5 miles an hour at 60 mph, it doesn’t overread by 10 at an indicated 90 mph. (And no, a police officer didn’t help me with that discovery, the mile markers did).

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