What's the farthest you've traveled without stopping?

Yes I am. That’s the point: Filled the tank, then used it all in one go. My old car easily got more than 400 highway miles on a tank. Used to take Santa Fe to Denver trips on one tank without any problems.

Exactly. This (or something similar) happened to an elderly husband of a cousin of mine and he required surgery and days in the hospital.

Houston to Frankfurt, about a 9 hour flight. Didn’t get up out of my seat even one time, not even to just stretch my legs

I used to do over 400 miles (one tank of diesel) without stopping back in the early 90s. It was in an '83 Datsun Nissan Sentra Diesel that had a 10 gallon tank. It made Coffee County, Georgia, to Madison County, Indiana a one-stop affair.

Your question is without stopping, but you stopped.

If gas and bathroom breaks don’t count, I’ve easily made 25-30 trips of a bit more than 24 hours each.

About 11 years ago I did the 5 from border to border (roughly) in one swoop, stopping only for gas (emptying my tank while filling the one in the truck). 1280 miles in right around 18 hours. Never again.

33.5hrs, most recently. Singapore, Tokyo, Chicago, Toronto, by air, then mini bus to our city, then cab to our door.

Approximately 24hrs in the air, 4.5hrs for connections, 2hr wait for next mini bus, 2.5hrs bus journey time, half our for cab time=33.5hrs.

(It’s a brutally long journey, to be sure. And harsh to go from equatorial to polar vortex, mid winter. But such is the price for seven weeks, over Xmas and New Years, island hopping in the Indian Ocean! :slight_smile: Talk about your first world problems!)

Took Amtrak from San Francisco to New York, a four day trip, with two stops where I left the train.

On a flight, NYC to Johannesburg.

We’re including flying, I guess. I’m not sure what “without stopping” would mean in that context. I flew from Kampala, Uganda to Anchorage, AK, changing planes in London and MSP. That was a full 24-hour marathon and I was a zombie for a week after.

I flew from San Bernadino, CA to Da Nang, RVN, with a refueling stop in Guam. That was something like 22 hours. It didn’t help that the flight attendants (it was a military charter) kept looking at us all like we were already dead.

Seattle, WA to Los Angeles, CA. 19 hours non-stop except for pee-breaks and fast food. 22 hours on the way back with a nap in a rest stop.

On the way down I made sure to leave in the early evening, so I could get the night-driving done with first and rely on the daylight for the final stretch. Little did I know that meant that I would arrive in LA at peak rush hour :frowning:

Wow, that is a long time. I could probably not handle all that travel at once. I would need at least two days in bed to recover, when I got there.:o

I was on the Chennai - New Delhi Duronto express last year - covers 2200 kms in 28 hours non-stop. Actually has a few technical halts for when the crew need to pee or change, but the stops are exceedingly brief (a few minutes). For me, it was one heck of a long non-stop ride.

I would brag but most astronauts would make me look like an amateur.

Japan to California in a old DC-6 took a bit of time.

I have been awake for just over 72 hrs twice in my life. I was young.

When I was the one awake & in control, with “P” & fuel stops, 34 hrs. I was young.

Now, I;m old. My mantra is: “Please Mr. Custer, I don’t want to go!” And you can’t m make me.

Las Vegas to New Orleans (couldn’t find my friend) so north to just South of St Louis, Missouri. Then I woke up in a motel room after sleeping for 2 days.

I’m going to assume you mean California border-to-border (San Ysidro to Crescent City or vice-versa), because (technically) that highway runs from Vancouver BC to Cabo San Lucas (in Mexico it’s the 1; in Canada it’s the 99) , and Mexico-to-Canada is a bit more than 1280 miles or 18 hours. [I’ve heard that it’s possible to drive from the tip of Argentina to the middle of Alaska, provided you’ve got a rugged-terrain vehicle to handle some of the less-well-developed road.]

Driving solo, I went from San Diego (off the I-8) up the I-5 to Arcata (Humboldt County). That’s not quite border-to-border, but then again I made it in 12 hours – at night without seeing any cops (fortunately).

Flying (as a passenger, I’ve never been a pilot) I went from LAX to Seoul to Nagoya. For some reason they said we could stay on the plane in Seoul if we were heading onward to Nagoya, so I just sat there and read while the crew cleaned up around me (and refueled, etc.). So that was a 20-hour trip on one plane, including the 2-hour layover.

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Well, this isn’t really hard-core, but I drove from Hamilton, Ontario to Manchester, NH and back in a day each way last summer, and I’m planning to do it again. Definitely took bathroom breaks and gas breaks and a few meal breaks along the way.

Hmm…

Flying - Osan AB, South Korea to the United States with stops in Japan and Anchorage,Alaska. The longest “stop” was in Anchorage for an hour to change planes. I also went to the UK three times in a C-130, twice with only a hour stop in Labrador. That was about eight hours of flying and not a pleasant trip.

Train - Reno,NV to Chicago,IL. 2 1/2 days. I didn’t get a berth (I was trying to save money. Bad idea) and I didn’t get off of the train during that time.

Driving - (Solo) Drove from Iowa City,IA to ABQ,New Mexico. Only stopping for gas and to make two quick pitstops I made that 1100 mile run in almost 16 hours. It was summer (mid June, so it got light early and got dark late, but I was a zombie when I got to ABQ and when I arrived I got lost looking for my motel.

It turned out to be all for naught as I woke up late the next day and I got Vegas four hours later than I had planned.

Driving (With someone) - Drove from Nevada to Tampa,FL in about 49 hours. Only intentionally stopped for gas, to change drivers and for pit stops. Got slowed down by an accident in the tunnel underneath Mobile Bay and were stopped twice by the police.

Another stupid move as I was only supposed to be in Florida for two weeks and ended up wasting three days of it recovering from the drive. Flew back to Nevada and I will never drive that far, or that long, all at once ever again.

Driving: 32 hours, stopping only for gas (but I wouldn’t recommend it).

Flying: 44 hours, though toilets were involved.

I’ve driven from Orlando to Albany NY only stopping for gas and pee breaks several times.

If you also count stopping for 30 minute naps, I’ve also driven from Estes Park CO to Orlando a few times, and Phoenix to Orlando once (since I was driving toward the sun I drove through parts of three days.)

Whenever I drive anywhere I usually drive for more than 12 hours straight because there really isn’t much to do in any direction. The closest destination to me is the Appalachians and they’re still pretty far away. Usually I’d have to get to at least Fort Worth or Washington DC to get anywhere worth going.