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

Melbourne to Adeliade.

Im from NZ so that was still a long way!

whatthefunk · Joined: 21 Apr 2003 Location: Dont have a clue

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.

Swiss James · Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Location: Shanghai

Manchester to London 3.5 hours.

We stopped for a cup of tea in Birmingham though.

baldrick · Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Location: Location, Location

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

VanIslander · Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 4:58 am Post subject:

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!

ddeubel · Joined: 20 Jul 2005

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

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.

adamdean · Joined: 20 Mar 2005

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

ed4444 · Joined: 12 Oct 2004

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.

Thunndarr · Joined: 30 Sep 2003

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.

tracimcg · Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Location: South Korea

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.

Buff · Joined: 07 Apr 2004

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

desultude · Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 5:44 pm Post subject:

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.

rapier · Joined: 16 Feb 2003

skookum · Joined: 11 Mar 2005

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......