12 hr solo drive......

[RockDoc]

Originally Posted by Bogo

Plain Cheerios for munching on. Look at how few calories they have per box.

Otherwise I take notes and design stuff while driving. I can fall asleep real fast behind the wheel if I have nothing to do but drive. Even rush hour driving uses the brain too little for me to stay awake doing it.

I usually go through a bag of carrots. I keep a little recorder in my console incase I have any brainwaves while driving, sometimes I do, usually not though.

[lx450landcruiser]

Originally Posted by RockDoc

Damn, 27 hours is crazy!!! 12 is just about right, I'm getting loopy by the end of it, but not too out of it. Unfortunately (or fortunately) there is little to slow down for through the prairies. Only 3 cities to go through that will stretch for more than a mile or two.

not bad, I did 33 hours strait after a day of finals. left from bellingham wa and drove to prescott az. hit major traffic in seattle and portland (those were the killers) ever since when i do long drives i like to leave at about midnight. make the best time then.

[burlew]

Originally Posted by Bogo

Plain Cheerios for munching on. Look at how few calories they have per box.

Otherwise I take notes and design stuff while driving. I can fall asleep real fast behind the wheel if I have nothing to do but drive. Even rush hour driving uses the brain too little for me to stay awake doing it.

Talk about a chitty drive....

[bogus one]

Take Burlew

I bet she could keep it interesting

[RockDoc]

Originally Posted by bogus one

Take Burlew

I bet she could keep it interesting

Another time I suppose, I'm off.

[cruiser88]

Originally Posted by smkymntn

Dont forget a bunch of weed- always good to make time fly. Just make sure to stay high as hell.

I bet he could even turn the shifter into a bong

[IronYuppy]

Originally Posted by roscoFJ73

The loopy bit is actually tiredness. You start seeing things in the dark like bushes that turn into sheep or goats.
If you must drive without stopping for a snooze,stop every hour and walk around the car ,check tires ,wash windscreen.
It keeps the loopiness at manageable levels

You're in Australia, right? News-flash... those are sheep.


Aside: did you ever see that Australian B-movie suspense thriller about the road-train driver who pics up the creepy hitcher? I forget the name of it, but the premise is the trucker has to get from Alice Springs to "X" and takes a bunch of speed. About an hour into the journey he picks up a hitch-hiker in the Outback..... the hitcher insists they stop at a rest-stop/bar for a drink, and then he may or may not have killed a girl and put her in the back of the truck.... It's a pretty entertaining flick - wish I could find a copy.

[gmarshall7]

Originally Posted by RockDoc

Pink Floyd's "Echos" is great for the last 30 min of a night drive.

Except for the Halloween parts which may prompt you to pull over and reflect.

[gmarshall7]

Originally Posted by wob

I did Jackson Hole, WY to Columbia, SC nonstop by myself once. 36 hours without turning the car off. I remember going through St Louis with the sun coming up and feeling good that I was in the home stretch.

I do not recommend that.

So pumping gas with the engine running was just bad.assery?

[gmarshall7]

fog = sleep