In my younger days, SF Bay Area to LA area (about 430 miles each way). Nowadays I can’t see myself doing anything farther than about 200 miles or so.
3 to 4 hours…BUT I would most certainly go further for fun!
I did a weekend trip 5 hours to Chicago. It included baseball (Wrigley tour). I’d do it again!
I did a weekend trip 5 hours to somewhere in Pennsylvania for a wedding of someone I sort of know. It was ok but the trip to Chicago with someone else sharing the driving was much better.
DO IT!
Try not to plug anyone else’s wife and your marriage should be a happy and long lasting one.
You did say “try,” right?
(I keed, I keed!)
Heh…I know you understand my motivation more than many, ZipperJJ. And I have a desperate need to get out of town in general. I just don’t want to come back more wiped out than when I left. It still might be worth it, though.
Also with the ‘when I was younger…’ We used to go immediately from work in the Monterey Bay Area to Reno to ski, sleep in the parking lot until the resort opened—we worked swing shift—ski all that day and the next, and drive back home from the slopes. About 5 hours each way, assuming no tule fog, chains, or serious traffic.
God it was great to be young.
I’ve driven over 200 miles each way for a day trip. That was back whebn I lived in Utah. Everything’s far apart there.
Although I’ll frequently take 150 miles each way day trips from Boston up into the White Mountains nowadays.
If you want to get away go for it. Sure the driving time will be boring and it won’t be the most relaxing weekend on record but you’ve got something specific that you’ll enjoy doing and as long as you get a good nights sleep and don’t try and fit even more stuff in “we’ve driven all this way” you’ll be fine.
Don’t plan anything for Monday night though, you’ll want an actual relaxing night to make up for the go go weekend.
I once drove 6 hours each way on a weekend to attend a wedding. It was terrible (the driving, not the wedding.) I’ll never do that again, if I can help it.
Nowadays the farthest I’d drive for a weekend trip is maybe 2 hours.
Well I’ve driven 2.5 hours for a beer (Ottawa Dopefest).
And I did take a 6 hour drive for a whale sightseeing boat trip (from Montreal to Tadoussac). Two days of driving and one day on the boat, not the most relaxing weekend.
I love driving and road trips.
Went from Baltimore, MD to Barrington, IL and back for a weekend once. Attended a wedding. About 750 miles each way.
I’ve driven from Boston to Jay VT to ski for the day, approximately 4.5 hours each way. Otherwise I try to keep it under 3 hours for a day trip.
For a weekend to get from Boston to Acadia National Park, Sugarloaf ski area, or Baxter State Park ranges from 4.5 hours to almost 7 each way. I’d want to go for a 3-day weekend for any of those.
6 hours seems to be my limit. Drive there after work on Friday, arrive by 11-12midnight, earlier if a slightly shortened Friday is in the cards. Have a reasonable amount of sleep, have all day Sat and most of Sunday to enjoy the destination.
I’ve done longer, but those were pretty tiring. For a day trip, I’ve done 3 hours. Leave at 8AM, arrive at 11, leave destination after dinner get home for bed.
You do know that you sent me the link to this thread, right? hmph
Anyway, I think that trip to DC was the longest I’ve taken over a weekend, though I could be forgetting something.
A friend and I did San Diego to East Thermopolis, Wyoming (we literally threw a dart at a map, and that’s what came up) over a three-day weekend. Best damn road trip I’ve ever had! (Thermopolis has some Yellowstone-complex hot springs, thus the name. A very pretty town, and their Western Historical Museum was wonderful!) That’s something like 600 miles each way. (Silly, as we spent most of the time with one guy driving and one guy sleeping: what’s the point of a road trip with no company!)
These days, I’d try to keep it under 200 miles… But San Diego to Phoenix, or Flagstaff, is a very nice little road trip, and I hanker to do it again!
A gf and I did this almost every weekend one summer. We’d leave between 7 and 8 a.m., drive until 1 p.m., have lunch, check in somewhere, and start wandering the town. Around 4 p.m. the next day, we’d start the drive back to Chicago, turn in and be ready for work. The usual range was 300-400 miles, so we saw a lot of the surrounding states.
I drove from Akron OH to Rochester NY(about 4 1/2 hrs one way) last August for a Dopefest. Left Sat night and returned Monday. Not a bad trip. Worth it for the company.
Also drove to a dopefest in Livonia MI over New Year’s weekend. Three hours each way. One day trip on a Sunday.
My family used to drive six hours up to my grandparents for long weekends. I probably wouldn’t do it on my own. One time I went up to San Francisco from Santa Barbara with my boyfriend. I probably wouldn’t do that again either.
Three hours is about my limit.
Well, with a group of people, I’ve had weekend roadtrips to New Orleans (from Atlanta) and Tampa (from Athens, GA). But by myself, I’d go to Atlanta (from Athens), check it, and sleep over. Comeback the next day (thanks Megabus!).