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Leave Sat morning - driving from Austin to Key West, 23 hrs by map but hoping to make it under 20!

all the way from CS up to Glacier National Park and back

From Galveston, Texas to Cooperstown, Ny, to Destin Florida, back home, and a lot of places in between.

My dad, brother, and I. A lot of great memories.

Circa 1995... Tulsa - Laramie - Yellowstone Park - Bozeman - Whitefish - Glacier Park - in and out of Canada - Coeur d'Alene - Portland - Monterrey - Las Vegas - Albuquerque - Tulsa

Eight days, seven nights. Had to hurry to get the kids back in time for the start of football practice.

CB, '67

Nearly 60 and never been on a vacation

Here's a twister on something sadder...I know a woman who lived or still lives maybe in Mauriceville, Tx. That is the intersection of St highways 12 & 62. I was sitting in her company's reception area years ago, maybe 1990 or so and we started talking about a trip to Honolulu, Maui, Kauai, etc my wife and I had had recently returned from. She was amazed that we had flown to Hawaii and that we had the $$$ to do so in the 1ST place. She tells me that the furthest she had ever been away from home was on her honeymoon to Nacogdoches. Isn't that maybe 75 miles? She also says her and her hubby drove up right after the wedding and returned the next day. She also told me that she had only been to Louisiana once and was scared to go back there and that the furthest she ever goes from her house then at all was on an occasional trip to Beaumont with her husband.

Never went on a vacation

New Braunfels to Portland ME

Southeast Texas to Wisconsin for the 100th reunion of the division my grandfather was with in World War I. Then over to South Dakota to the tiny town where my dad was born and Mt. Rushmore.

monarch said:

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Here's a twister on something sadder...I know a woman who lived or still lives maybe in Mauriceville, Tx. That is the intersection of St highways 12 & 62. I was sitting in her company's reception area years ago, maybe 1990 or so and we started talking about a trip to Honolulu, Maui, Kauai, etc my wife and I had had recently returned from. She was amazed that we had flown to Hawaii and that we had the $$$ to do so in the 1ST place. She tells me that the furthest she had ever been away from home was on her honeymoon to Nacogdoches. Isn't that maybe 75 miles? She also says her and her hubby drove up right after the wedding and returned the next day. She also told me that she had only been to Louisiana once and was scared to go back there and that the furthest she ever goes from her house then at all was on an occasional trip to Beaumont with her husband.

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A guy who worked with my dad, who was later a tax client of mine, died back in 2004. He lived out in the country on 15 acres or so and I drove within feet of his house hundreds of times (on an easement) to a gate behind which were around a thousand acres of land and access to the Trinity River. Good high ground. He was always outside it seemed, tending to a garden of about an acre, or his horse and a few cows. A very kind and gentle soul.

He was buried in a family (extended family) cemetary with around 60 or so folks buried there. It was at that service I learned that he had always lived in that house I drove by. Grew up there, and either the house was gifted to him or he bought it when it was time to leave home. They said the only time he was away from it was during the war. I had never heard of that sort of thing (and have heard of it only once since). My mind drifted away from those who spoke at his graveside. At first I thought it sort of a shame he had not seen more of the world. I had been to the South Pacific and to France and Belgium, trips I enjoyed. There was just enough wind blowing to sway the tops of the pine trees, the sweet gums, and the oaks that surrounded that old cemetery. The temperature was perfect, and I knew most everyone in that crowd. My mind still wondering, I got to thinking maybe that old homesite was enough for him, that foreign places held no lure. The old house had a big front porch, picket fence around the front and sides, could not see the nearest neighbor, there was no road noise that could be heard. He and his wife raised four children there, put all four through college, at least one, possibly two, were Aggies. He worked at the same place my dad did, so I know pretty much his income, and it was not a lot. As I mentioned, he was a tax client in later years and his pension was under $6,000 per year. I think he was rich in another way.

I guess if a person wanted to be in only one spot, hardly ever leave it, he or she could not have picked a better place.

A buddy and I drove from McAllen to Bozeman Mt one summer, not sure the miles but a few

Wally World

Was it closed?

Houston to Ruidoso, NM to Petrified Forest NP to Saguaro NP to San Diego CA to Disneyland to Sequoia NP to Kings Canyon NP to Death Valley NP to Red Rock Casino Las Vegas to Hoover Dam to Sante Fe NM to Albuquerque NM and back to Houston. 4,100 miles direct.

Side trips and food just a hair over 4,400 miles in 2 weeks.

JustisWalkert said:

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Was it closed?

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The moose out front should've told you

I've taken my family on several road trips, and the longest was probably a big loop up to Grand Tetons, Yellowstone, and then Glacier. That was the best family vacation we took, and logged over 4k miles in about 10 days.

BUT the longest road trip vacation I've taken was driving with a buddy from DFW to the far northern point of Prince Edward Island, Canada. It was 2,410 miles if you drive it the shortest way, but we used a little over 4 days to get there and took the scenic drive. I think we logged just over 2,700 miles on the drive up!

East Texas to Acadia Maine and back.

East Texas to Jasper Alberta Canada.

Drove from College Station to New York City. From there drove up to Maine and then Montreal. From Montreal to Toronto and then from Toronto back to College Station.

It was well over 4,000 miles. I rented a car from the Houston airport. They were stunned when I returned it.
That was a total of 16 states and 2 provinces.

Drove from The Woodlands, Texas, to Banff, Canada, in a van with my mom, dad, grandmother, and grandfather.

Drive on vacation?

Poors are funny people.

PanzerAggie06 said:

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Drive on vacation?

Poors are funny people.

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Can't see the West Coast from Seattle to San Diego like I did in 2021 by flying.

Fairbanks, AK, from Fort Worth. 8 week trip.

Maine

Key West

Seattle/Glacier/Alberta

LA

Minnesota

First ever flight was age 20, to Paris. Family had driven to 47 states before that. Added RI, ND, and HI as an adult.

We drove to Alaska with our RV and stayed May thru August visiting everywhere we could drive and took a ferry to Sitka for a week and made it back to College Station for the First football game. Whoop