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[freesolo]

from Baku to Dushanbe (Central Asia) on a very slow train.

bicycled from Zagreb to Warsaw

by road from Asmara to Nairobi

[whatthefunk]

[Fat Sam]

Some great stories, I imagine, from those long distance travels. Especially Schwa. Argentina all the way home in 1975. Wow.

My biggest travelling experience was a seven month trip from New York to Panama but there were a couple of return flights on the way (Cancun to Havana, Managua to Bluefields, Nicaragua) so it wasn't totally overland.

The longest single journeys I took include:

Niagara Falls to Seattle by train. There was supposed to be a six hour wait in Chicago but my train was five hours, fifty-five minutes late so I spent all of five minutes running like a madman down the platform in a three day journey (Amtrak).

In Mexico, I went from deep in the Copper Canyon to Chihuahua, which took twenty hours by bus, before deciding that the place didn't look very interesting and getting straight on the next bus to Zacatecas, a mere eighteen hours further. The Mexican tourist board had just made a deal with French cinema to show all their movies on the buses, so every couple of hours the bus was shaken by my groans as yet another movie began in French with Spanish subtitles.

It's surprising how long it takes to get anywhere in Europe when you have a caravan. A top speed of sixty miles an hour meant that, as a child, I would spend the first and last three days of a two week holiday sat in a car with no air-conditioning playing I-Spy with my sister.

As for walking, I was pleased to get down and up the Grand Canyon by two in the afternoon but that's nothing compared to Isla de Ometepe in the middle of Lake Nicaragua. It took over ten hours and I couldn't walk up stairs for at least a week afterwards.

So those are my longest single journeys by car, foot, bus and rail. I know it doesn't count but my longest trip (distance-wise) was by air, to Korea in fact, a whole ten hours from Amsterdam, but I'm sure most people on this board can beat that.

[Gorgias]

Casablanca to Amsterdam by bus and train, and back. Not sure the distance. Thunderbay to Vancouver by bus is pretty far too.

[joe_doufu]

I've driven from northern Maine to southern California (from my home to my university) which is usually between 3000 and 3500 miles, depending on the route. On two or three occasions I drove a full 1000 miles in a day (remember the card game "mille bornes"?) typically through great plains states where the speed limit is 75 and everybody drives 90+, and there are no curves on any roads.

One of my dreams is to bike (bicycle not motor) from Maine to Argentina with some friends and a video camera, make some "reality TV". Anybody want to go with me?