"J. Clarke" wrote in message
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> JamesStep@gmail.com wrote:
>>> Say you drive 13 hours - that's about 68 miles per
>>> hour average. Extremely ambitious.
>>
>> Ambitious indeed, especially when you factor in stops for food, gas,
>> rest rooms, and delays due to accidents, construction, etc.
>>
>> AAA suggests that 50 miles per hour of driving is a realistic average
>> on long trips when you factor in the things mentioned above.
>
> This is ridiculous.
>
> Cannonball Baker drove a loaded 2 ton truck from NYC to Los Angeles, a
> longer distance, on much, much worse roads, in 5 days, 17 hours, and 30
> minutes in _1926_, and that wasn't even his fastest run. The current
> record is 32 hours, 51 minutes.
>
> There is a motorcycle club called the "Iron Butt Association", the
> qualification for joining which is that one has ridden a motorcycle 1000
> miles in 24 hours. Numerous members of that club have ridden across the
> US in 50 hours or less, from Halifax to Vancouver in 90 or less, and
> visited all of the "lower 48" states in 10 days. Some have ridden
> across the US and _back_ in under 100 hours.
>
> Hell, my mother drove from Norfolk to San Diego or vice versa in less
> than a week several times in the early '60s, and that included time out
> to see a few tourist attractions.
>
> Driving 2500 miles in a car on four lane controlled-access highways in
> six days just plain isn't any kind of big deal.
Still an endurance contest. SOME of us like driving one day, then taking the
next day off from driving.
>
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