TFW you lie down after driving for 20 hours straight

[mapcat]

Every muscle is vibrating. Sleep is irresistible. There needs to be a name for it.

[yakra]

Laramie to San Jose, 2006.

This is home now.

[jayhawkco]

Every muscle is vibrating. Sleep is irresistible. There needs to be a name for it.

Driveana.

Chris

[compdude787]

It wasn't quite 20 hours of driving, but when I drove from LA to Salt Lake City on my trip this past October, I was on the road from approximately 9 am to 2 am that next morning, pretty much only stopping for lunch, dinner, and gas. Playing classic rock music kept me awake on I-15 thru Utah.

It probably wouldn't have taken so long had I not spent that entire morning driving around on LA's freeways, and then going down the Grapevine and then over Tehachapi Pass that afternoon, but hey, I wanted to do those things, especially because it was a Saturday morning so there was practically no traffic in LA.

But I don't think I'm going to be spending that much time on the road and staying up so late driving in the future.

[mapmikey]

Every muscle is vibrating. Sleep is irresistible. There needs to be a name for it.

Road jangles

[osu-lsu]

Lost Buckeyes?
Hayes Fever?
Ghost driving?

[michih]

My longest driving was also just 17 hours. From 3AM to 8PM. The normal travel time had been less than 15 hours but I needed some detours to get more CHM mileage in NE Hungary and around Vienna back then
I only slept one or two hours the last nights before the trip. Thus I was quite tired and almost felt asleep after six hours of driving. A 10 minute power nap saved me and the rest of the day went well.
I would never do such a trip again! A relaxed elven-hours-trip like last Saturday is enough

[SSOWorld]

Every muscle is vibrating. Sleep is irresistible. There needs to be a name for it.

A date with Rosie?

[dave1693]

Longest continuous road trip for me with no meal breaks was 20 hours but I only drove half of that. Eastern DC suburbs to Minneapolis. Left at 11 PM Eastern, arrived 6 PM Central (thus 7 PM Eastern) the next day. We would drive for 2 hours, take a short break, drive 2 hours more, take a slightly longer pit stop and switch drivers. Lather, rinse, repeat. We got caught in traffic because we went too close to Chicago. Oops.

Longest single-stretch solo drive was Fargo, ND, to eastern DC suburbs, which was a longer trip but involved meal breaks of over an hour, whereas the above drive had no break longer than 15 minutes.