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Posted on 09-21-09 02:39:59 AM

Don't drive.

My friends and I have actually talked about heading to New York or Vermont one day but... I don't have a passport yet. :\

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Posted on 09-21-09 02:40:58 AM

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Not on my own, but I don't have a driver's licence

My parents went to Montana and Wyoming when I was really young, and in 2004 we went to the St. Louis area and Virginia.

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Posted on 09-21-09 02:41:41 AM

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Passports are not that hard to get...at least it wasn't when I got mine.

I don't really consider it a road trip, but when I visit my dad & grandma, its a two hour drive through the Everglades.

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Posted on 09-21-09 02:47:06 AM

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We used to drive from Buffalo to Detroit areas through Ontario

I learned stuff like what a kilometre is and that dollars can be coins too

I also learned a few French words from signs in a small part of 403, like nord and sortie (north and exit)

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Posted on 09-21-09 02:58:34 AM

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Drove from Florida to Va one time. Not by choice, and I didn't drive much. It started to rain pretty bad when I started to drive so I switched off with someone.

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Posted on 09-21-09 03:14:56 AM

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They're not hard to get but I need to send in for a new birth certificate because the government decided to change how they looked, and my old one's technically invalid as a document.

And you need it for the passport, obviously.

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	Jul Mosts 2008 Let's see... - I've driven from Spokane to Seattle several times, basically from one end of the state to the other. That usually takes 4+ hours. - Rode with 3 friends (two from Texas, one from Virginia) from Austin, TX to Las Vegas, NV for the 2003 Classic Gaming Expo. The trip was a partial disaster, thanks to some severe car trouble, but I did pick up some good memories along the way, and Vegas was awesome. - Rode with my cousin from Spokane to Tempe, AZ when he left for college (I flew back). We went to the Grand Canyon and stopped at some neat little towns along the way. Overall, it was a bittersweet trip, since we used to hang out together all the time. Lots of video games were played, lots of ROMs were hacked, and lots of crappy comics were drawn...it was the end of an era. - My family took a few road trips when I was young. My earliest memories are probably from the Disneyland trip when I was 3, though they're pretty vague and fuzzy. It made for some weird feelings of deja vu when I finally went back a few years ago! ____________________

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Posted on 09-21-09 11:06:56 AM

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Hmm... well, not on my own. I was with my cousins that time and my brother was driving the car.

And I dont drive much... ( since i dont have a driver's license... I can only drive inside the town). Rules are not that strict here.

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Posted on 09-21-09 11:28:17 AM

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The longest I had was from home to Gaspésie (about 600 miles), several times (since my mother has family there) but the last time was in 2002 ... the longest since then is from home to my grandparents, about 120 miles

Not on my own either, since I still don't drive

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Posted on 09-21-09 03:41:03 PM (last edited by Kyargu at 05-01-10 09:49 PM)

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Posted on 09-21-09 03:45:12 PM

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Cool, I used to live near Niagara Falls

My parents would take me on all these boring trips to parts of rural Michigan. Considering that we lived in rural Michigan, we might as well have stayed home

Rarely, we went somewhere interesting, but my parents almost never took me to cities. Not even NYC when we lived in the NYC area and my dad worked in NYC

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Posted on 09-21-09 04:00:41 PM (last edited by Prince Kassad at 09-21-09 01:04 PM)

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It's pretty sad that my longest trip was only 4 hours 30 minutes and went to a suburb of Prague in Czechoslovakia.

EDIT: well, the trip to East Berlin went a few minutes longer... but meh, it's not much of a difference

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Posted on 09-21-09 04:04:24 PM

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I went from Chicago to Washington D.C. on an 8th grade field trip, and it took about twelve or fourteen hours on bus to make it there including pit stops. It was night when we went on our way home, so that doesn't really count, but I remember trying to stay up. Didn't work, but I remember being awake at about 12 or 2 AM, so I'd say that'd place us just into Ohio.

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Posted on 09-21-09 04:06:17 PM

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I still want to try to visit NYC someday. Especially since I found out that one of my ms/hs friends lives there now.

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Posted on 09-21-09 04:07:47 PM

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I don't drive, but my family drove to California from BC a couple years ago.
'Twas pretty sweet. Thank God for iPods with 24 hours battery life.

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Posted on 09-21-09 05:04:19 PM

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I've been driven to and from nevada countless times, but I've never had a significant road trip. I badly want to drive all around the cuontry, it's something I need to start planning while my schedule is relatively free.

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Posted on 09-23-09 01:38:58 AM

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About once a year, I go from Maine to New Jersey to see all my old friends again; the trip is long and arduous, and about 435 miles, spanning the time of about 6 to 7 hours.
But god damn if it isn't worth it.

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Posted on 09-23-09 03:34:49 PM

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My friends and I took a road trip from Cleveland, OH to the border between Minnesota and Canada (Google says it's 1,061 mi). It was a long drive that we took in shifts, and I hallucinated a little bit at the tail end of it. Minnesota is fucking boring to drive through, especially at night.

Anyway, we went there because we looked it up and there was a casino there, and the gambling age in Minnesota was 18. We gamble, drive in to Canada and grab a beer (the drinking age in Manitoba was 18 as well). By the way, it took us an hour to find a single place in Canada. That portion of it has nothing around. We got strange looks going into Canada, probably because we had Ohio driver's licenses and no reason to be there besides the tiny casino. We got our car searched coming back into the states.

So, we leave. I'm up a pretty good amount, even after paying for food, hotel, gas, etc. Then, on the first leg of the trip home, my friend falls asleep at the wheel and crashes the car into a ditch. A cop shows up, we get the car towed to a local garage and the cop takes us to a nearby hotel. We get a room, and then call our parents and tell them what happened. We find out the car is totalled, so we're thinking about ways to get home. Plane ticket seems to be the easiest (and most expedient) way, so we settle on that. Except that when we turn on the TV, we find out that the whole eastern seaboard and Cleveland have no power. Goddamnit.

Eventually, my one friend's dad ended up buying us Greyhound tickets back to Cleveland, and we embark on our 24-hour ride. Ugh. I still hate Greyhound. I got home exhausted, still with $10 more than I left with, even after the extra night at the hotel and more food. But then I had to pay my friend's dad back for the Greyhound ticket.

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Posted on 09-23-09 10:39:32 PM

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I've driven to Las Vegas, Nevada and Havasu, Arizona a few times. That's it in regards to me doing the driving.

I've been driven all across the New England area and down to Virginia when my family went to the East Coast in 2002. That's about it.

I really want to drive across the country, but I don't have the time or the money. It's something I'm always keeping in mind though. Maybe I'll get the opportunity.

I will be driving up the state either this winter or in the summer to visit the bay area. I've been wanting to go forever and have been saving what I can for it. My girlfriend and friends are just as eager as I am, so we'll make it happen.

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