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What is the furthest you've travelled on land (in one hit)?
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sheba



Joined: 16 May 2005
Location: Here there and everywhere!

PostPosted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 7:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Melbourne to Adeliade.

Im from NZ so that was still a long way!
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whatthefunk



Joined: 21 Apr 2003
Location: Dont have a clue

PostPosted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 9:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Denver to Mexico...Mexico to California...California to Detroit... Detroit to Ontario...Ontario to New Orleans...New Orleans to Florida...Florida to Boston...Boston to Denver. 20,000 miles in two months.
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Swiss James



Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai

PostPosted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 11:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Manchester to London 3.5 hours.

We stopped for a cup of tea in Birmingham though.
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baldrick



Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: Location, Location

PostPosted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 12:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sydney-Cairns-Darwin-Alice-Adelaide-Melbourne-Sydney. In a 1986 Ford Falcon. Laughing
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VanIslander



Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!

PostPosted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 4:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

San Francisco to Montreal via Vancouver in my friend's brand new car.

Except for dinner in Vancouver, we only stopped for gas, swapping driving and sleeping stints on what still took nearly seven days to do!
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ddeubel



Joined: 20 Jul 2005

PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 3:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I've gone from Alice up to Darwin and down to Adelaide in three weeks. That was about 4700 kms (1 km = 0.6 miles). And what is the furthest you've walked in one hit?


So you mean Hiking? Not many talking about that....so diesoline we are obsessed. I've done 6.713km across Canada on foot. Running. 83 days.
Also done 245km in 24 hours. No car used. Just a track and lots of time to think.

DD
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mindmetoo



Joined: 02 Feb 2004

PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 4:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Drove Seattle to Detroit. Twice. 3 days, 12 hours a day on the road. Seattle to and through the Cascade mountains is nice. Then you hit Eastern Washington which gets no rain. It looks like something out of a Road Runner cartoon.



You hit the part of Idaho that sticks up like a finger between the Washington/Montana ass crack. That's some amazing scenery and fun driving.





Going over the Continental divide is amazing. Nothing like putting your car in neutral and going down hill for 15 minutes at 110 km/ph.



Montana is nice. Big sky country is an apt name. Western North Dakota is also scenic. Eastern North Dakota and Minnesota get pretty boring. Wisconsin I made a point to stop for cheese. I wasn't impressed. Stop making cheese from pasturized milk, America. Illinois and Indianapolis because urban sprawl. Michigan is Michigan.
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adamdean



Joined: 20 Mar 2005

PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 7:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

train: i did a 6 day train ride from st petersburg to beijing....
bus: 40 hours in a bus in northern pakistan up to the chinese border
car: 4 days hitching a lift from lhasa in tibet to kathmandu in nepal
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ed4444



Joined: 12 Oct 2004

PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 9:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I travelled from Singapore to Ireland via Beijing overland (with a little underwater and overwater included). Took me 7 months.

No idea how long it is in distance.
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Thunndarr



Joined: 30 Sep 2003

PostPosted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 4:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Spring Break 1997

Grand Forks North Dakota to Chicago.

Chicago to Memphis.

Memphis to New Orleans.

Then, on the last day, 27 straight hours of driving, New Orleans to Grand Forks, something like 1,500 miles. We got in the car at 9 o'clock Friday morning, wearing t-shirts and shorts in New Orleans, got out of the car, same apparel, and emerged into a raging blizzard, good old North Dakota style.

Total was something like 3,500 miles in just over 7 days.
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tracimcg



Joined: 03 Oct 2005
Location: South Korea

PostPosted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 4:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

We drove from Eastern IA to Fairbanks, AK in 3 nights. Drove from WA to Denver in 25 hrs. Drove from Seattle to IA. Drove from Wisconsin to Maine.
Good places to hike--Acadia National Park--Maine. Southern Utah- several nat'l parks. Anywhere in western WA--Olympic Nat'l Park, Baker Lake.
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Buff



Joined: 07 Apr 2004

PostPosted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 2:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Foot: 764 km from St. Jean Pied-de-Port, France to Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Train: Santiago de Compostela to Paris, via Madrid

Bus: Bucharest, Romania to Iasi in the northeastern part of the country

Car: Columbus, Georgia to Watertown, New York
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desultude



Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf

PostPosted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 5:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I used to have a job driving trucks from Fairbanks, Alaska to Prudhoe Bay, on the Artic Ocean. It's only about 500 miles, more or less, but it usually took at least three days. The road is mostly gravel, and goes through the Brooks Range- with high mountain passes and double-long (80 ft) trucks hauling pipe for the pipeline, at that time. We only drove it in the winter, as there was no bridge over the Yukon. They waited til the ice measured something like 10 feet deep before letting us drive across.

In the winter, of course, it is always dark, except for a red glow on the horizon at noon. You could park at some of the pipeline camps and watch the artic fox, lynx, and occasional bears. Not a long trip, but a bit interesting.

Here are some shots I lifted from the web- I wish they were mine, but mine are back in the States.









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rapier



Joined: 16 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 8:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

whatthefunk wrote:
Denver to Mexico...Mexico to California...California to Detroit... Detroit to Ontario...Ontario to New Orleans...New Orleans to Florida...Florida to Boston...Boston to Denver. 20,000 miles in two months.


Let me guess, you were being chased by an obsessive sheep?
We're talking about walking/driving distances without break, dips*it.In one hit.
Not a series of airline flights over the space of several months.

20.000miles, woohoo! I've done 50.000miles in 2 weeks- amazing what international jetliners will do for your mileage.
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skookum



Joined: 11 Mar 2005

PostPosted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 6:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I did a 7,000 mile combination bicycle and hitch-hiking trip around America once - 2700 miles of it on the bike, the rest hitching with the bike. I spent eleven days cycling across and around North Dakota, not everyone's idea of America's vacation-land but there are many interesting if not spectacular sights - badlands, wildlife refuges, the Turtle Mountains, etc. For the rest of the country, I rode when I felt like it, hitched when I didn't.

Also drove around America once for six months, back and forth several time - the last time with a U-Haul trailer containing all our material objects. We were moving to Oregon from the east, having found a town that suited us both during our wanderings...

Once took a bus trip that took eight hours in the Philippines. Distance covered: only 40 kms. It was a real rough road. When I got there the only place to stay was in the town jail, in the corridor in front of the cells. When morning came the only prisoner reached through the bars with a key and let himself out.....

Never did the massive thousands-of-miles walks like some folks, but have walked most of the Oregon section of the Pacific Crest Trail (about 3/4 of it in one shot). Walked from Pokhara to Muktinath, back and on to Kathmandu (300 kms?), and the Southwest Coast track in Tasmania.....

I walked to the shijang in Jeomchon today......
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