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What is the longest trip you have ever taken? For me it was a circle trip around the United States by train where I boarded in Shelby, Montana, to Seattle, Washington. Than from Seattle to Los Angles, CA. From Los Angles to El Paso, Tx where I visited a week with my mom. Than from El Paso to Dallas where I spent New Years and than from Dallas, Tx to Chicago, Il. And my final leg was from Chicago back to Shelby. When I added it all up it was about 5,000 miles.
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The longest trip i have ever taken was from IL to FL I think it ended up being a 21 hour drive, and we didnt stop at a hotel to break it up... It was a great trip though just very looooong!
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I have two. One was from Ohio to South Dakota. a two day drive that took probably about 20 or 21 hours to complete.
The second was this past Christmas when I went to Destin, Florida. It wasn't a bad drive until I got stuck in the back roads in Alabama. Driving back was a pain as I got stopped on the freeway in Kentucky for over an hour, so I was in my car with the exception of stopping for gas for over 13 hours. Not fun. :(
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left n.m, went to Denver co, up to Montana then to Idaho, Utah, all over Washington and Oregon, back down through Utah again the Arizona and back to N,M, It was a great trip and we were gone almost 3 months and 2/3 was traveling. Little over 5,000 miles. Also have made a bus tour of from n.m. all the way up to Ohio and that was a little over 3,000 miles. But the longest air flight was to Alaska. It was beaitful/ But would not like to live there. Have also been to Canada and Mexico on the coast. But there is still a lot of America i would like to see.
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I used to drive semi with my husband and I got to see the United States and get paid for it. We also got to visit relatives that we hadn't seen for many years. And see adventures like the caves in Virginia and many other sites. the was the best time in my life and I really miss it. but I am retired now and I leave to the younger generation.
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Wow~that's huge! As a kid we traveled across the US for 5 weeks...I think! I was little!
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We took a two week vacation and went around the United States. We started in OH to MO for the Arch to Arizona Grand Canyon to Hoover Dam to Los Vegas to Yellow Stone Park Than the Indian Statue and Mount Rushmore. We touch some states just to say we were there. It was back when are children were young. Fun Fun Fun God Bless
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I have traveled for 5,000 miles. I don't know how long Colorado Springs, Colorado is from Texas, but it was a long trip, for me, by car with only restroom and gas breaks. We spent one night in Ft. Collins, Colorado. Well, that all that I can remember about this trip.
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I took a trip that seemed to last forever just because I was stuck on a Greyhound bus. I traveled from Southern Utah down through Vegas to Phoenix, Arizona to see my son graduate from Physician Assistant school. I had a 5 hour layover, in the middle of the night, at a Greyhound Station in downtown Las Vegas.
What can I say? I live and learn. :heart:
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My longest trip began in Chicago, IL to Los Angeles, CA, where I spent two weeks with my sister. I rode the bus, and that trip ranged to 4,476 miles (2,238 miles each way. I left on Friday morning and did not get to California until Sunday. I had a trip where I left Chicago on my way to Tupelo, MS. With the layovers, it took me nearly 24 hours to get there. I had a long layover in Memphis, TN, and had to wait in Tupelo for the longest. That is because my sister is slow as Christmas. She started to mow the yard, fell in the mud, and it took her husband, who was then her fiance, less time to get to me than it did my sister, niece and daughter. I finally saw them 5 hours after I got to Tupelo. ??? ??? ??? :wave:
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I haven't taken many trips ,,just from ohio to ky........ :cat:
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My longest trip ever taken was a two-week trip to Paris.
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My longest trip ever was a flight to Beijing, China with stops in Los Angeles and Tokyo. It took about a whole day to get there. Another long trip was to Sydney, Australia with my husband and kids. You really have to love to fly to go on such long trips by plane.
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I drove from MN to Montreal Canada and back that is the longest road trip I have taken
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For me it would be from Ga to New Jersey mileage wise. But in hours even though it takes an average of 14 hours to Jersey I would have to say hour wise is when my husband and I were transferred up to Richmond VA from Augusta, Ga only to be transferred down to Atl 9 months later and having an 11 month old baby in her car seat of the moving van and our car towed behind it. It took as long if not longer then going from Augusta to Trenton.
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I've driven with my family from Florida to New Hampshire. It's about 1100 miles. It takes about a day to drive straight through. I just came back from a trip to there and I flew. Without layovers it would only take 3 hours or so.
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North Carolina to Hawaii
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The longest road trip I've ever taken was relatively short compared to doing a circle of the US which I've always wanted to do. We went from RI up to the Blue ridge Mountains and down through the Smokey Mountains, up through Tennessee and into Kentucky through West Virginia then back home.
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Flew to Hawaii. Trip took eight hours. :wave:
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the longist trip i every taken is to los vegris and didi have fun.
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The longest trip I have ever taken was when I flew from Minnesota to Germany. My son was stationed at the Army base in Kitzingen, Germany. He and his fiance had a 2 week leave from their first tour in Iraq and asked if I would come to Germany rather than for them to come to Minnesota.
I said YES!
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I went to Costa Rica for a senior assignment. We cleaned up trails in a rain forest when former UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, was supposed to visit. His helicopter landed nearby, but we were not allowed to even get near or see him at all. Security and all that, you know. How disappointing!
Not that I would have been so awestruck to see him. But it would have nice to hear him say, thanks for cleaning up the trails. You know what I mean?
FYI: The rain forests in Costa Rica look just like our forests. They just have some different wildlife, like iguanas, monkeys, poisonous frogs and scorpions. And they have some beautiful flowers. Other than that, they look just like our forests. I don't know what I was expecting, but I was surprised at that.
The only other big surprise was a regular sand beach on one side of the coastline and a black sand beach on the other side. Interestingly, they're not very far apart. AND you are not supposed to use toilet paper in their toilets. Of course, all the beach toilets had toilet paper backed up in the toilets because Americans cannot do what they're told. :angry7:
The mountains there are beautiful, but I think all mountains are beautiful. :D
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I drove to Boston for over 5 hours. It was at night time.
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If I count my International trip, then from my country to here it is somewhere around 2,000 miles flying. But within the US I have driven from Northern Virginia to Panama City, FL and it took almost 24 hours just with breaks in between. The longest drive of my life.
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I have two very long road-trips, although one is by far the longest (and I doubt I'll ever come close to duplicating again).
The not-as-long one was when a friend of mine -- whose birthday is only a few days after mine -- and I decided to take road-trip to Florida for our birthdays. We had friends that just moved down there, and before they had moved, they let us borrow some speakers for a party, so we used that trip to return the speakers and visit our friends. But we also knew some people that lived in Maryland (close to DC) so we took a long detour driving almost straight East from MN to PA and then south to their house for a couple of days, before continuing on our way to FL.
But the longest was when I was in Boy Scouts when we had a cross-country road-trip from NY (where I was living at the time) to the Philmont Scout Ranch in NM. We took a month to make the entire trip, making several stops at various different sites along the way, including going to the Football Hall of Fame in Ohio, watching a Royals baseball game in Kansas City, and visiting the top of Pikes Peak (not to mention the week-long backpacking hike once we got to the Scout ranch).
What was really interesting for me was that our family was in the process of moving from NY to MN at the time, so I actually started the trip in NY, but then got dropped off at my new home in MN on the way back!
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Back in the '70's I had opportunity to go with friends on a European tour. I think it was 17 days long-- or maybe 17 countries. It was great to see some of the things you have read about.
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I drove from Hillcrest Hgts. Md. to Ft. Myers, Fl. it took me like 24 hrs. or more but I did pull in the rest stops but I didn't stay long just seemed like I drove forever.
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From the Caribe to Madrid, Spain in an old Super G-Constellation airplane. We made a pit stop at the Azores Islands to refuel. It took forever. But no regrets: I was in heavens all the time!
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Longest trips time-wise were 2 camping trips I took as a kid. The first was a 6-week camping tour of the southwest US. Started in WI, traveled down along the Mississippi to Texas, across the southern boarder. We got to walk across the boarder, around a block on the other side in Mexico, then back State side so we could say we "visited" another country. Continued to CA, went as far north as San Francisco, then started heading east. Got the southern "mid" states, back to the Mississippi, and home again. Stopped at several caves and museums, and interesting parks and experiences along the way.
Second to that was a 5-week camping trip of the southeast, where we traveled from WI diagonally to the East Coast, south of DC. Hit the Carolinas, northern FL/southern GA, across the Gulf coast. Got to the Mississippi and headed north. Got to visit plantations (including the one in S. Carolina used in the mini-series "North and South"), met the large mosquitos of Mississippi and Louisiana, and took a trip up the Arch (St. Louis).
If we're talking longest trip distance, it might be a tie between my cruise to Alaska (starting from WI to Vancouver, CA, up to Anchorage via many glaciers), or my cruises to the Caribbean (WI to FL to islands in the ocean)...maybe my HS trip to Mexico may be in the running too...
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I must say there are many well-traveled people on Fusion Cash. :thumbsup: I'm quite envious. :P Count yourself extremely fortunate.
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My longest trip was from LA to Auckland New Zealand. It was so long I lost a day and it was my birthday that was lost. So I keep saying I am younger than I really am. ;D
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My trip from Miami to Disney World in Orlando. It was well worth it!
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The longest trip I've ever taken was too Oklahoma. We went almost a 1,000 miles by car to get there and went through Missouri so we went pass the giant Arch which was interesting. I also thought it was nice eating at some different restaurants along the way.
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My longest trip was a 17 hour roadtrip from Ft. Lauderdale, FL to Lancaster, PA
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The longest trip I've ever taken was too Oklahoma. We went almost a 1,000 miles by car to get there and went through Missouri so we went pass the giant Arch which was interesting. I also thought it was nice eating at some different restaurants along the way.
Next time, stop and visit the arch. It's a spectacular view from the top. There are huge windows to look out. And if it's windy outside, the arch has a sway of about 18 inches. Scary, but fun when it happens!
They also have a nice museum in the arch. They have a video that shows the men building the arch step by step. Very interesting. So next time, visit the city next time you're passing through if you have time.
St. Louis has too many wonderful things to miss. The zoo, the art museum, history museum, science center, great restaurants, a new ballfield, shopping, great fireworks on the 4th of July, and lots of other cool things.
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I have driven from chicago to texas a half a dozen times and driven from here to florida a few times. I actually like road trips i think its fun and flying is a hassle and expensive like driving around seeing places.
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the longest trip i took was from ill to fl made it in 24 hours, stopping for gas, and bathroom breaks, i filled a cooler with food and drinks for the trip. we stay down there for 6 years and came back to ill :wave:
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We just did a five week road trip: Seattle to GA up to Maryland, over to Ohio, back to GA then back to Seattle. I made several cross country trips plus several drives between Alaska and the lower 48. I love travelling by car.
Longest plane ride was from Juneau AK to Barbados. Took 24 hours with the layovers.
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I've been to Europe and traveled through 8 countries while there....very awesome.
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My longest trip was from Philippines to Japan, detroit to Myrtle it takes 21 hours straight in plane.
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The longest trip I have ever taken was when we were driving back home to Chicago from Mexico. It usually took us about a day and a half, but we had car problems and had to stay in Texas for a looonngggg, looonnnggg time!!!!!! Lol And then when the car was fixed it broke down again!! :'(
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South Carolina to South Dakota and Alabama to Minnesota are the longest drives, but I have flown further.
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The longest trip I've ever taken was during my college years. During spring break, myself and 5 other college students drove out west in a van and stayed at KOA's in Colorado and Utah areas. We were gone for 12 days and had an absolute blast on our trip. :wave:
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Longest trip I have ever taken was when I went to China a few years ago, in terms of distance. My parents are both (now retired) teachers, and when we were kids we used to take road trips and drive all over the country. I think the longest we were ever gone was 3 weeks. I have no idea how my parents retained any sanity driving thousands of miles with three kids, lol.
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Longest trip was from the US to South East Asia, almost half way through the world.
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I went on a cruise one time that boarded in Tampa, Florida. We then went to Grand Cayman and Cozumel. Then the next cruise boarded in Port Canaveral and we went to Cozumel, Belize, Roatan and Costa Maya and then back to Canaveral.
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My longest trip was when we went to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden. Best time ever and such beautiful countries!
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Longest trip was when I was younger and 3 years ago when I was little moved from Michigan to Alaska by car and 3 years ago moved from Alaska to Michigan also by car. (took some stops between though like yellow stone and stuff) took the long way.
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Wow! That was a long trip! The longest trip I've ever taken was from a town (Wallace) near Wilmington, NC, to West Palm Beach, FL, which took 12hours. Or whenever I went from Harrells, NC to Oxford, CT.
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Just moved to NC from Michigan. Drove about 12 hours..sucked.
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I remember as a child my family drove to Mississippi from Los Angeles Ca. Oh goodness that was the longest trip ever, especially as a child. I would have rather went somewhere else.
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I studied abroad in Spain for a little over 3 months.
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::) I went to the caribbean.
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What is the longest trip you have ever taken? For me it was a circle trip around the United States by train where I boarded in Shelby, Montana, to Seattle, Washington. Than from Seattle to Los Angles, CA. From Los Angles to El Paso, Tx where I visited a week with my mom. Than from El Paso to Dallas where I spent New Years and than from Dallas, Tx to Chicago, Il. And my final leg was from Chicago back to Shelby. When I added it all up it was about 5,000 miles.
We drove from North Georgia to the coast of Mississippi then to the Beale Street Music Festival in Tennessee and then back to coast of Mississippi before finally returning to North Georgia.
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I take a trip to my inlaws for one hour and that is the longest hour. ;D
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I think my longest trip was just after college where I traveled to China, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia, Korea and Japan in a month. I was self exploring with a couple of my friends and trying to extend our budget as best as possible. I probably won't do that again as I got a little sick a couple times during the trip.
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What is the longest trip you have ever taken? For me it was a circle trip around the United States by train where I boarded in Shelby, Montana, to Seattle, Washington. Than from Seattle to Los Angles, CA. From Los Angles to El Paso, Tx where I visited a week with my mom. Than from El Paso to Dallas where I spent New Years and than from Dallas, Tx to Chicago, Il. And my final leg was from Chicago back to Shelby. When I added it all up it was about 5,000 miles.
Haven't been that lucky to take a trip that last that long :dontknow:
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from Or.to in.
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I flew to one of the Hawaiian Islands.
It was the longest trip ever. Drove from Illinois to Florida to catch the plane.
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LA to Bora Bora...beautiful islands.
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About a 6-8 hour drive to visit my grandmother. The second longest trip was about 4-5 hour drive for a vacation in a beach in another state.
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When my mom and stepdad got married, we moved from Florida to California because he was stationed here. We drove the whole way! Now I know why I hated booster seats so much!
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ohio to calf 3000 miles