Built like a Mercedes 3682Exactly! It's because the official legal measure of distance is still the mile. (Don't ask!) Joe P must have been in Eire, where they ran both mile...
On any sort of "long" vacation drive, my 1st day is usually around 900 - 1200 miles, unless I leave after work, then about 300 miles and find a motel. My best "1st day" has been 1200 miles - I left home at 4:00 AM and slept in Texas, 1200 miles down the road, the same day.
I road rally with the Sports Car Club of America. This accounts for a lot of my long drives. At least 2 rallies this year will be done via airplane travel, as one is in Tucson, Az (2400 miles) and Portland, Or (abt. 3000 mi.) But I'll be driving to Wisconsin twice (1200 mi), Topeka, Ks (1400 mi, I think), and would have done Pittsburgh at about 300 miles except for a conflict with the Dayton Hamvention.
Built like a Mercedes 3681On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 23:37:05 +0000, Pooh Bear Like I said - Britts don't know what a "long drive" is. Many Canadians and Americans routinely drive...
Driving to the Dayton Hamvention, too - 600 miles, deer hunting in Michigan in November (800 miles), and that's about it unless we go SCUBA diving over Christmas in Florida at the end of the year (1000 mi).
Longest drive ever was the 1986 1 Lap of America rally, 9000 miles in 10 days, but I had two other people in the car to help. Otherwise, on all these other drives, I'm alone.
Dave Head
