A Travelling Just Wondering

[jazzy_dave]

What is the furthest you have travelled?

What is the longest A to B journey you have taken?

What is the longest travel delay you ever had?

Comments

[kabuldur.livejournal.com]

Although I have a gypsy heart and have wanted to travel, the furthest I have travelled is about 1,000 km to where my grandmother lived, and it took about 16 hrs on the bus with mum and my brothers and sisters if I remember correctly.

1,000 km.

Hmm...I've probably had longer delays but the longest I can remember off the top of my head was one hour when the 2011 floods went over the track and my daughter and granddaughters had to wait until the water subsided and the track checker went over. Pretty good, I thought, when the weather was so bad. I saw three landslides on the way down to the station, one on my side, which I nearly ran into. It was pouring rain with low visibility and the landslide was just over the brow of a hill. There was oncoming traffic on the other side of the road, too. A lucky squeak there. The other two landslides were on the other side of the road and were cleared by the time I went back up the range. I thought that was pretty good, too! I never want to drive in that sort of weather again, though, and probably won't.

[shanghai7.livejournal.com]

To Australia and NZ.
Hitched Derry to Belgrade.
Too numerous to mention delays!

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

1. Probably in 2001: San Francisco - Brisbane - Byron Bay - Sydney - Kuala Lumpur - Singapore - London. One hell of a journey, and whilst expensive, I don't regret one bit of it. ^_^ I'd love to get back to see more of Australia, and certainly, more of East Asia - if it's still running, the central Malaysian line from KL to the eastern end of the Thai border sounded fantastic, still (then) using 1930s rolling stock, running through small communities where the train's the key route for getting in and out.

2. Technically, probably the first leg of (1). ^_^ Gets a bit fuzzy how you define a single A to B journey - there was Bethlehem, PA to Anaheim, CA over three days for one of the ConFurences, and then there was the roadtrip, from Medford, OR, down to San Diego, across to Houston, up to Chicago, and then more or less in reverse, but along a different set of routes for the most part, to meet up with different friends along each way. If it's just "one leg, allowing for roadside breaks", perhaps the first half of the first journey, which involved swapping drivers once or twice, with the actual first night's stop in Tempe, AZ, IIRC. (We took the rest of the trip much more gently =:)

3. Dec 2010 to Jan 2011. =:P I'd hurried to pack up the previous place, and got a friend to drive me to Heathrow to spend a couple months back in the Bay, except.. when we got to the motorway turnoff for LHR, the overhead sign was notifying everyone that, due to a sudden deluge of snow, the airport was closed. Yes, one of the world's busiest airports, completely stalled. Cue a few days of trying to sort out something, eventually giving up and rebooking, making for about three weeks from intended to actual departure. Still, it was a fabulous time once I managed to get there, albeit not without some drama to begin with, with my host encountering some difficulties in getting another guest to leave, to the point she was invoking residency legislation, forcing him to have to start eviction proceedings, which made for rather an odd atmosphere in the apartment. ^_^; Great guy, though, and I miss him - very sharp mind, and he helped introduce me to serious sake, just as I brought him into the world of serious beer. =:)

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

From California to Thailand - 22 hours.

See above

Eight hours when I missed a flight to Hawaii.

[dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com]

The round trip from San Diego to north Idaho, with meandering in between, when the first husband and myself came up looking for property. About 3000 miles or more as no way to figure the meanders.

1500 miles from California to north Idaho; did that 2 times (once to move ourselves, then went back to get my mom and move her up).

Car broke down in a town and because they had to get parts, we had to take a motel room for the night.

[ba1126.livejournal.com]

I've flown from Boston MA to Austin TX, which I believe is the longest. Also Boston to Moncton, Canada(the last 'leg' in a tiny 6 seater!!!) and Boston to Pennsylvania by car. The car trip was probably the longest A to B trip (our honeymoon!!) The longest delay was probably the last trip home to Boston from Austin. We were delayed by storms and missed our connection. I chose the offer of a change to Wash. D.C. and from there to Boston, meaning I arrived (finally) in Boston about 1 AM instead of the original time of 10:30 PM.

[jwg.livejournal.com]

Boston to Myanmar. - not all in one day -

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I am not sure which one is physically the furthest, Fort Myers, Fl, San Diego, Ca(just the airport), or Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada.

My trips to Florida usually involve a 3+ hour flight down there, and then followed by a 6+ hour drive to my first stop in Milton, Fl.
Actually my first trip down there was a 3+ hour flight down, followed by a, I'm not sure how many hours drive up to Augusta , Ga. to my brother's place. :o

Thankfully nothing ever too long. KNOCK ON WOOD. :o
Hugs, Jon

[wantedonvoyage.livejournal.com]

When I was a child we drove from our home in NJ to visit relatives in High Level, Alberta (Canada) and then home again by way of Sacramento, California (round trip approximately 7,800 miles)

Longest nonstop flight I've done is JFK-CAI (5,604 miles). The return trip took about twelve hours due to headwinds, made worse by the child behind, who kept kicking my seat. Did I mention Egyptair is a dry airline? Nobody mentioned it to me until it was too late.

HCD and I were in California when Hurricane Irene struck New York and JFK flooded. We ended up being there an extra five days, in part because we were both able to do our jobs from there and that was better than losing a workday to travel. Luckily we had friends who could put us up.

[xfirefly9x.livejournal.com]

For the first and second questions: from Brisbane to Sydney in Australia. (I've never been overseas.)

Not sure if it's the longest, but it's not uncommon for the public transport system here to just... not show up. Or show up just early enough that you miss it.
In the city, it's not such a big deal, but a bit further out, buses and trains can be by the hour/three times a day/only on weekdays. So, that can be quite frustrating when they don't show or you miss it.

[bobby1933.livejournal.com]

About 3000 miles.

From Ketchikan, Alaska to Carlinville, Illinois (via Prince Rupert and Winnipeg, Canada)

Quarter hour (road construction)

[qatsi.livejournal.com]

London to Rome - about 1100 miles.

As above.

About 7 hours. December 2009, a few days before Christmas. I left work in Oxford at 5:30 but due to snow, didn't get home (just south of Reading) until 1:30 in the morning! Should have taken about an hour.

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

From the East Coast to the West Coast.

Same thing, lol!!

Can't think of any, really.

*HUGS*

[everville340.livejournal.com]

Bethlehem, PA to England.

Pennsylvania to California.

Overnight in the Philadelphia Bus Terminal.

[sidhe-uaine42.livejournal.com]

1) Milwaukee, Wisconsin to San Francisco, California via Chicago, Illinois

2) Longest distance was Chicago to San Francisco; longest timewise was Chattanooga, Tennessee to Milwaukee, Wisconsin

3) The reason that the Chattanooga to Milwaukee was so long was that there was a combative drunk on the Greyhound bus that my mother and I were on. The less said about him, the better. State Patrol got involved in that situation

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Aside from flying from Phoenix to Berlin and then riding a boat from Prague back to Berlin, my wife and I did a 7,000 mile (11,250ish km) drive in 7 weeks in '12 from our home in NM to Denver, Omaha, Maine, Washington DC, Chicago, Milwaukee, back to Omaha, Denver, then home. LOTS of fun. Unfortunately but conveniently our poodle had passed away a couple of months earlier, so we didn't have to mess with having a pet with us.

Solo, around 1990 I did a 2800 mile drive from Phoenix to San Jose for a Japanese animation convention, then up to Portland, OR, across/down to Twin Falls, Idaho, down to Las Vegas, NV and back to Phoenix. That was a lot of fun, and a lot of driving. I had a six disc CD changer connected to my car stereo and a binder of 30odd CDs, plus ones that I bought on the way.

I should work out the miles for the Berlin/Prague trip some day.

Longest delay was leaving a chess tournament in Las Vegas one night (I used to do IT support and photography for major chess tournaments). The plan flew a circle up and down from Tucson to Phoenix to Vegas, and it developed a fault in Phoenix and was grounded there. Fortunately I knew my roommate was staying an extra night, so I had a bed waiting for me. Did some touristy stuff the next day, caught the plane and went home. No problems. I've never had the horror of spending a night in an airport.

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

The furthest place I've been to is South Bruny Island in Tasmania, Australia

The longest single leg of travel was from Los Angeles to Sydney at the beginning of that same trip.

The longest delay I can remember was sitting in O'Hare for hours and hours on the way back from Japan in 2004. It is very windy in Chicago and the plane we were waiting to get on was a relatively small jet that couldn't take off in the high winds so we had to wait until it got calmer. We arrived at our destination after the airport would normally have been closed. It was very empty, dimly lit, and kind of eerie.