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Pounder, you can easily do 1,000 in a Corvette. I have done it many times on BMW and Harley Motorcycles, my various other cars, and this past September I drove 1,000 straight through to Estes Park, CO, from Tinley Park, IL (Just outside Chicago) in my 1982 CE.
14 hours is about right. I worked many, many 16 hour shifts at the Police Department, so driving long hours is no biggie to me.
What I do when we go to Estes Park, is back my sleep up 1 hour a night until I am getting up at 8:00 pm on a Saturday night Chicago time. I take an ice cold shower, drink a couple Diet Mountain Dews, and hit the road.
As you get deeper into Saturday night, there is no traffic, no construction, and no State Troopers. There have been a few times when we've gone out there in September or October where I did not see another car on I-80 for 15-20 minutes in either direction. I kind of get in "THE ZONE", and most often don't even listen to music.
On this last trip in September, my Wife flew to Denver, and took the shuttle to the hotel in Estes. (I do not require her to spend 14 hours in a Corvette with me!) She checked into our room, and when I arrived after 14 hours on the road, she was sitting on the deck outside our room, with two bottles of wine, two glasses, a Gatorade for me, and food from the Mexican take-out place..... What a Babe!
I am buying a C-5 next week, and we plan on taking that to Niagara Falls in May (about 540 miles one-way), from there to Charleston, WV, and then to Ohio to visit my Wife's brother. Then, the same car to Maine in September (about 1,300 miles one-way to our first stop. I am not sure I will do that straight-through, though!)
I am 62 years young, and as far as losing a day, you really don't because you are not wasting a night in a hotel. When I drive straight through to Estes, I am generally in bed and dead asleep the first night I get there and sleep 12-13 hours. I don't feel any fatigue after waking up that first full day after the drive.
Good luck on your "Iron Butt", you will easily do the miles!
-Here are a couple photos from that last trip, both up on Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park.
14 hours is about right. I worked many, many 16 hour shifts at the Police Department, so driving long hours is no biggie to me.
What I do when we go to Estes Park, is back my sleep up 1 hour a night until I am getting up at 8:00 pm on a Saturday night Chicago time. I take an ice cold shower, drink a couple Diet Mountain Dews, and hit the road.
As you get deeper into Saturday night, there is no traffic, no construction, and no State Troopers. There have been a few times when we've gone out there in September or October where I did not see another car on I-80 for 15-20 minutes in either direction. I kind of get in "THE ZONE", and most often don't even listen to music.
On this last trip in September, my Wife flew to Denver, and took the shuttle to the hotel in Estes. (I do not require her to spend 14 hours in a Corvette with me!) She checked into our room, and when I arrived after 14 hours on the road, she was sitting on the deck outside our room, with two bottles of wine, two glasses, a Gatorade for me, and food from the Mexican take-out place..... What a Babe!
I am buying a C-5 next week, and we plan on taking that to Niagara Falls in May (about 540 miles one-way), from there to Charleston, WV, and then to Ohio to visit my Wife's brother. Then, the same car to Maine in September (about 1,300 miles one-way to our first stop. I am not sure I will do that straight-through, though!)
I am 62 years young, and as far as losing a day, you really don't because you are not wasting a night in a hotel. When I drive straight through to Estes, I am generally in bed and dead asleep the first night I get there and sleep 12-13 hours. I don't feel any fatigue after waking up that first full day after the drive.
Good luck on your "Iron Butt", you will easily do the miles!
-Here are a couple photos from that last trip, both up on Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park.
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I believe I've commented on this photo before. Without any background or expertise in photography, and speaking only for me, I do believe that is probably the most beautiful vette photo I've ever seen. Just love it!! Your "OH YEAH" comment says it all!. Best wishes and take care!
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I drove back and forth from NJ to Detriot maybe 6 times 40+ years ago and from Iowa City to NJ once straight through, and from FL to NJ and back twice, and what I learned and liked to do for a long trip if you want to do it in one shot, was to leave in the late afternoon or evening, maybe 4-6PM or so, drive all night (mainly with the trucks) and when the sun comes up in the morning you are awakened and refreshed with the daylight. By the time you get to where you are going it is getting dark again, but you are there. Otherwise, leave early in the day, stop at night and do the trip in two days, it takes longer but you will like it better.
And don't forget to fill your iPod with enough music to last 10-12 hrs. as there are no good radio stations on a long trip and it's very annoying to keep searching for something to listen to when you're far from nowhere. And get a good radar detector as well as all the usual "stuff" you need to be self-sufficient on the road to take care lo those minor C5 problems that might pop up.
Good luck on your trip and hope your SO will still talk to you when she gets off the plane.
And don't forget to fill your iPod with enough music to last 10-12 hrs. as there are no good radio stations on a long trip and it's very annoying to keep searching for something to listen to when you're far from nowhere. And get a good radar detector as well as all the usual "stuff" you need to be self-sufficient on the road to take care lo those minor C5 problems that might pop up.
Good luck on your trip and hope your SO will still talk to you when she gets off the plane.
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I drove back and forth from NJ to Detriot maybe 6 times 40+ years ago and from Iowa City to NJ once straight through, and from FL to NJ and back twice, and what I learned and liked to do for a long trip if you want to do it in one shot, was to leave in the late afternoon or evening, maybe 4-6PM or so, drive all night (mainly with the trucks) and when the sun comes up in the morning you are awakened and refreshed with the daylight. By the time you get to where you are going it is getting dark again, but you are there. Otherwise, leave early in the day, stop at night and do the trip in two days, it takes longer but you will like it better.
And don't forget to fill your iPod with enough music to last 10-12 hrs. as there are no good radio stations on a long trip and it's very annoying to keep searching for something to listen to when you're far from nowhere. And get a good radar detector as well as all the usual "stuff" you need to be self-sufficient on the road to take care lo those minor C5 problems that might pop up.
Good luck on your trip and hope your SO will still talk to you when she gets off the plane.
And don't forget to fill your iPod with enough music to last 10-12 hrs. as there are no good radio stations on a long trip and it's very annoying to keep searching for something to listen to when you're far from nowhere. And get a good radar detector as well as all the usual "stuff" you need to be self-sufficient on the road to take care lo those minor C5 problems that might pop up.
Good luck on your trip and hope your SO will still talk to you when she gets off the plane.
