Longest Travel Time?
By vanonas
@vanonas (949)
United States
December 9, 2008 10:11pm CST
What's the longest time you've sat in a car or ridden in a plane etc?
I drove from Virginia to Disney World (Florida) in about 12 hours. That was a really long drive.
I flew from Virginia to the Philippines and that was about a whole day (24 hrs) on 3 different airplanes!
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18 responses
@maximax8 (31046)
• United Kingdom
10 Dec 08
The longest I have sat in a plane is 14 hours, from Singapore to London and from London to Hong Kong. I have flown from London to Los Angeles and that is a flight of 12 hours. In January I will be sitting in a plane seat for 12 hours on a flight from London to Cape Town. The longest train ride I have been on is Brisbane to Cairns. I haven't been on a bus or a ferry for longer than 12 hours. I have done the trip from Brisbane to Cairns in a car as a passenger and it was quicker than the train.
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@aisaellis22 (6445)
• United States
10 Dec 08
Hello vanonas! The longest time I have travelled is 7 hours sitting on the bus. It's from Davao city to Surigao del Sur. I really hate it because I have to sit for 7 hours and there are some roads that are very rocky.
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@garfield_zhou (530)
• China
10 Dec 08
My longest travel time is 12 hours on the train, crowded and uncomfortable. But I think I am still lucky, you know why? Last spring festival my cousin stuck in the freeway on her way to hometown for totally 24 hours due to big snow without move even one little step. One disaster after another is they don't have enough food, which is better than insufficient fuel I think personlly. Fuel can make heater on or else it is freezing in the car. It is terrible trip anyway she said to me.
@firemountain (60)
• United States
11 Dec 08
there were four drivers .but we came stright through
in 24 hours. from Anderson ,SC to San Jose CA.
boy was my butt sore.never again.Firemountain
@ElicBxn (63643)
• United States
10 Dec 08
My sister and I did a 14 hour drive from Durango Co to Arlington Texas - we were being chased by a snow storm, it was just arriving in Durango when we left and it made it to Wichita Falls about the time we made it to Arlington. The next day I drove on to Houston and the front never made it there - kind of bad because all the clothes in my suitcase were for Durango and I had to borrow clothes to visit my friends in Houston!
@mrbrownedeye (781)
• Philippines
10 Dec 08
the longest travel, i have remember that day when i travel from manila to Ilocos Sur in Philippines. On the bus it was almost 10 hours sitting on the chair and almost lost my patience. bout your experienced that was wow! i really hate sitting an hour without moving from one place. lol... thats a great experience.
@PrincessKitten (790)
• United States
11 Dec 08
Hi Vanonas,
The longest trip I took was either flying from Los Angeles to Frankfurt, Germany or Frankfurt Germany to Los Angeles....whichever one gains time instead of losing it.
I made the flight a few times.
Once I took a Greyhound bus from South Carolina to Downtown Los Angeles...we hit all of the Southern states and I think that took about a week.
Happy MyLotting!
@djonghs (560)
• Indonesia
11 Dec 08
My longest time is when I travel from my country to Canada. It took around 20 hours flight while changing 4 different planes, 5 hours waiting before boarding to next plane. And then I must drive 5 hours before arrive to my final destination.
Total 30 hours of journey, and it was very exhausting.
BR
@amitj020 (124)
• India
10 Dec 08
i rode like 400km dat is like 10 hrs
but nothing can beat this travel time
a normal journey wld tk around 18 hrs to reach the destination but due to floods we had to change our mode of transport at various pts .
journey goes like this
1st we took a bus to catch a train time of travel 7 hrs
as usual train was late by an hr so add another 2 hrs to it
2nd no of hrs spent on train travel 12 hrs it was boring
3rd we reach the station
tym lost in findin the rght bus and moving our luggage like 1 hr
4th this one being the last and the most furstrating of all
already 22 hrs in the journey
to our horror we were on a bus that was slower than a cart and stopd like almost at all the stations
so for journey of 3 hrs we took 6hrs
6 hrs can u believe that
man 28 hrs of journey dat was exhausting......
and i think im short on 4 hrs i cant remmeber wateva
it was arnd 32 hrs ......
@paigey (12)
• United States
22 Dec 08
The longest individual flight was 15 hrs and was from LAX to Australia. The longest spent in airports/airplanes without fresh air is 35 hrs (4 planes, long layovers). I think I would have enjoyed it more if I would have known people sitting around me and if I could've slept more than 4 hours but it was worth it.
@palonghorn (5479)
• United States
10 Dec 08
i drove from pa to memphis tennessee, it was a 16 hour drive. and drove another 13 hours the next day to central texas. i just drove 6 hours today down to va. and next monday we'll be making that same drive to texas........only this time i won't be driving it alone.
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
10 Dec 08
I used to drive from California to Tucson AZ in about 9 hours - but with 2 kids! and then from Tucsan to ODessa Texas in about 12...with 2 kids.... the most wonderful trip ever to be taken! East from CA to TX on Interstate 10!! Best thing to ever come out of california is I-10 East!
@KimJoRoll (127)
• United States
10 Dec 08
We drove from Ohio to South Carolina. Now that may not seem like a really long drive but it is when you have a 5 year old (at the time) and a 2 year old (at the time) in the backseat...and even if you drive at night they still do not want to sleep! lol Longest drive of my life!