include trips you've made alone to visit friends/family around the world i guess...but also the furthest you've travelled alone within your own country of residence - and think about the longest in terms of time as well as distance (i.e. nearer but longer journeys)
and include holidays or pilgrimages you've taken on your own with no intention of meeting friends/family at your destination too
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:52 (twenty-three years ago)
― hstencil, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:53 (twenty-three years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:53 (twenty-three years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:54 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:55 (twenty-three years ago)
Longest distance I've travelled by myself in the U.S. is probably either Upstate NY --> Kentucky by car, or Chicago --> Phoenix --> Portland by airplane (Southwest sure is cheap, but their routing sucks).
― hstencil, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:56 (twenty-three years ago)
― Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:59 (twenty-three years ago)
In One Day/Night:Chicago to Folly Beach, South Carolina
(I don't think plane flights should count here)
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:59 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ryan McKay (Ryan McKay), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:00 (twenty-three years ago)
within own country, hmm, bradford-glastonbury i guess
― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:01 (twenty-three years ago)
― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:02 (twenty-three years ago)
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:04 (twenty-three years ago)
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:06 (twenty-three years ago)
― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:07 (twenty-three years ago)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:08 (twenty-three years ago)
― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:09 (twenty-three years ago)
I don't know why flights shouldn't count. I've always found airports terrifying. Planes are fine, but from the moment I go through one passport control, until I go through the other one at the other end, I get panicky. I think it's the whole "no-man's land" thing.
― celeste (Celeste), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:12 (twenty-three years ago)
― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:13 (twenty-three years ago)
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:13 (twenty-three years ago)
I think it should be possible to get to the sea in about 3 hours for most places in the UK. I could be wrong though.
― celeste (Celeste), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:16 (twenty-three years ago)
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:17 (twenty-three years ago)
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:21 (twenty-three years ago)
― No One (SiggyBaby), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:24 (twenty-three years ago)
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:28 (twenty-three years ago)
― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:29 (twenty-three years ago)
― No One (SiggyBaby), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:34 (twenty-three years ago)
― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:35 (twenty-three years ago)
Kahtmandu-Calcutta-Darjeeling-Patna-Bodh Gaya-Varanassi-Dehra Dun-Shimla-Dharmsala-Chamba-Amritsar-Dehli-Amsterdam-London
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:37 (twenty-three years ago)
― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:37 (twenty-three years ago)
― celeste (Celeste), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:37 (twenty-three years ago)
― Nick A. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:01 (twenty-three years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:03 (twenty-three years ago)
My longest solo journey: either Edinburgh-London or London-Paris. The longest time-wise: Oxford-Edinburgh, a few days after the Hatfield train crash, when all the trains in the country had to slow down to 20mph every few miles.
― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:06 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:14 (twenty-three years ago)
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:21 (twenty-three years ago)
― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:22 (twenty-three years ago)
― isadora (isadora), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:24 (twenty-three years ago)
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:26 (twenty-three years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:26 (twenty-three years ago)
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:28 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:32 (twenty-three years ago)
Having done the same drive, I can say that AM radio in the South is strangely entertaining.
“I seen UN jeeps in Tennessee and I’m warning you good folks that the New World Order will soon be upon us. First, they’ll take away our guns, then they’ll legalize drugs, and then the whole of the UN will march in and make us bow to a One World Government. And that’s when the Beast will reveal hisself.”
― No One (SiggyBaby), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:32 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:34 (twenty-three years ago)
― Aimless, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:41 (twenty-three years ago)
― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:43 (twenty-three years ago)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:54 (twenty-three years ago)
Truly the furthest I've travelled alone was about 100 miles on foot in the Canadian Rockies (the backcountry of Banff National Park). I hiked for 12 days, during which time I saw roughly 18 bighorn sheep and maybe a dozen people. Of the 12 days I was hiking I saw other people on 4 of them. The rest of the time I was the only human for miles in any direction. That's alone.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:56 (twenty-three years ago)
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 20:08 (twenty-three years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 20:19 (twenty-three years ago)
― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 20:22 (twenty-three years ago)
― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)
by foot: about 12-15 miles from Worcester to Grafton when I had no car. Almost got picked up by a guy offering me a ride who looked like Rick James, his name was Sandy Muse...he managed the Pizza Hut.
by car: from Worcester to Burlington Vt to deliver lab samples. I used to love that ride (and I did it daily) when I was 21-22 until I started to get panic attacks in the white mountains.
by plane: florida to baltimore, baltimore to hartford
by train: worcester to DC.
― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)
― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)
― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)
oh dear
― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)
― Streatham's Paisley Princess (kate), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)
Had to take a stop in San Francisco to get that *cheap* TicketAroundTheWorld.
― Nathalie, the Queen of Frock 'n' Fall (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)
I quite enjoy travelling by myself, usually. It's travelling with other people that can get unbearable.
― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)
― Nathalie, the Queen of Frock 'n' Fall (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)
― Pvt Dave Goes To Far (scarlet), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)
I love the freedom of travelling alone.
Me too.
― xero (xero), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)
― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)
― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)
― Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)
My longest actual solitary roadtrip: 3000 miles to and from my grandmother's deathbed.
― M. V. (M.V.), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)
Bus: Watson Lake, Yukon -> Vancouver, BC
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)
Fuckin' hundred years ago. I hate those guys.
― M. V. (M.V.), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)
― M. V. (M.V.), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)
― M. V. (M.V.), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)
― jeffrey (johnson), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)
― america's next top ramen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)
A co-worker bought a plane (Cessna 210) in South Africa and flew it back to the LA area, stopping in various towns on the west coast of Africa, the Azores, Scotland (I think), Newfoundland, New York, and then more stops across the US, ending at the Santa Paula airport west of L.A.
― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)
:-(
i don't drive. i've never been anywhere by myself!
― america's next top ramen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)
― carly (carly), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)
― M. V. (M.V.), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)
― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)
As far as just working hard to travel, I did a solo road trip around the continental U.S. in spring 2002 that lasted a month.
― iDonut B4 x86 (donut), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:56 (twenty years ago)
― iDonut B4 x86 (donut), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:57 (twenty years ago)
Seattle-->Bozeman--->Fargo-->Minneapolis-->Madison-->Chicago-->Detroit/Dearborn-->Toronto-->Montreal-->Boston-->NYC-->Philadelphia-->D.C.-->Richmond-->Durham/Chapel Hill-->Charlotte-->Athens-->Atlanta (just for oil service)-->New Orleans-->Austin-->Santa Fe-->Albuquerque-->Flagstaff-->Meteor Crater-->Grand Canyon-->Painted Desert-->Zion National Forest-->St. George-->Las Vegas-->Los Angeles-->San Francisco-->Ashland OR-->Seattle
― iDonut B4 x86 (donut), Thursday, 10 November 2005 04:02 (twenty years ago)
― This Field Left Blank (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 10 November 2005 04:16 (twenty years ago)
Sure planes count. I was just bein' a wise guy.
― M. V. (M.V.), Thursday, 10 November 2005 04:50 (twenty years ago)
by bus, the longest trip was portland, oregon to nyc (gorgeous mountain scenery and then through the flatlands of nebraska, etc).
by train, nyc to los angeles (via chicago and the midwest and then down the santa fe trail)
by car (i was with one other person): princeton junction, nj to phoenix, az (nj -> pa -> wv -> oh -> il -> in -> mo -> ks -> ok -> tx -> nm -> az, along old route 66)
by plane, unaccompanied: any of my east coast west coast runs.
― america's next top ramen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 10 November 2005 04:51 (twenty years ago)
― america's next top ramen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 10 November 2005 04:52 (twenty years ago)
― gem (trisk), Thursday, 10 November 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)
by car - greenville, sc --> rochester, ny (~13 hours)
― tehresa (tehresa), Thursday, 10 November 2005 06:11 (twenty years ago)
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 10 November 2005 06:22 (twenty years ago)
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 10 November 2005 06:23 (twenty years ago)
completely alone--as in didn't meet up w/ anyone:
chicago > nyc > london (and back)
i don't drive so the longest i've been alone in a car = out of the garage. :] but on my bike...i'd say a good 12 miles for one trip. not too much.
― sonore (sonore), Thursday, 10 November 2005 07:19 (twenty years ago)
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 10 November 2005 07:29 (twenty years ago)
― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 10 November 2005 08:10 (twenty years ago)
― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 10 November 2005 08:43 (twenty years ago)
Have you never felt alone in a crowd? If not, congratulations. Now teach me. ;-)
― Nathalie, the Queen of Frock 'n' Fall (stevie nixed), Thursday, 10 November 2005 08:53 (twenty years ago)
i love travelling alone; it feels like stolen time.
― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 10 November 2005 10:45 (twenty years ago)