What's the longest journey you've been on?

JumpShivers · 08-12-2013 11:47AM #1

And where?

3.5 hours for me. I'm very adventurous, obviously. :P

michellie · 08-12-2013 11:53AM

Flying to St. Louis Missouri for a wedding...with a 2 year old my boyfriend's divorced parent's. Drive waterford -dublin, fly Dublin to Chicago, flight from Chicago to St.Louis cancelled, finally get a flight that night but can see lightening in the distance

arrive st.Louis and our bags were lost. Fml

Don't even know how long it too, but way too long

donvito99 · 08-12-2013 11:53AM

An unbearably schweaty train journey through the night from Eastern to Southern Europe. Scheduled to be about 11 hours, was delayed a few more in some godforesaken Croatian place.

It was probably cheaper to fly. Never again.

wazky · 08-12-2013 11:56AM

My Xfactor "journey".

thegreatgonzo · 08-12-2013 11:56AM

I took a train from Fremantle-Perth to Adelaide, think that took about 2 days.

The Backwards Man · 08-12-2013 11:56AM

Life.

36 years and counting.

danwhite88 · 08-12-2013 12:01PM

Driving from New Jersey to Tampa Florida, Took two days but stopped over in motels.

Also travelling from London to Dublin by train and boat. 13 hours travelling altogether.

thegreatgonzo · 08-12-2013 12:02PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Life.

36 years and counting.

Counting backwards though?

bbam · 08-12-2013 12:03PM

I find any travel on my own very long. To the extent that I've turned down loads of business trips to Aisa and the US because I'd have to travel alone.

I had a 12 hour flight from Heathrow to Dallas years ago, we had "technical" problems before takeoff and had to sit on the runway for 2 hours.
14 hours sitting beside total strangers was just torture.

And then on the return journey I got stuck beside a yank with verbal diorea, 12 hours of non stop babble babble babble. Even when I put the blanket over my head and pretended to sleep he kept talking !!

antodeco · 08-12-2013 12:07PM

Mine is a flight from Dublin - London to Kuala Lumpur. During heavy snow, so couldnt leave the runway for about 2 hoirs.

However, I know my brother travelled for 7 days Straight coming by land/boat from Beijing to Dublin.

The Backwards Man · 08-12-2013 12:09PM

thegreatgonzo wrote: »

Counting backwards though?

Ha! If i get another 36 years I'll be happy enough.

digger58 · 08-12-2013 12:12PM

Limerick to Thessaloniki in an L200 with a double Ifor Williams horsebox. There and back in 10 days! No Horses BTW

padma · 08-12-2013 12:20PM

By campervan cairns to Perth c 18 days. By flight Shannon to London to Singapore to Sydney to Auckland to Wellington left Monday morn 5.30 arrived Wellington Wednesday afternoon 4 pm New Zealand time.

Turtyturd · 08-12-2013 12:23PM

Dublin to Mombasa (Kenya) via Heathrow and Jeddah.

boobar · 08-12-2013 12:25PM

Australia....

17 hours to get there

DazMarz · 08-12-2013 12:26PM

Dublin to Newark Liberty Airport: 6 hours or so
Stopover: 3 hours
Newark Liberty Airport to McCarran Airport Las Vegas: 5 hours

Totally worth the trip. Viva Las Vegas, baby...

Miss Lockhart · 08-12-2013 12:28PM

A flight from Orlando to Dublin via Gander, Cork and Shannon with an hour-and-a-half stopover in Gander in the middle of the night. There were many technical issues including no sound for the film and water dripping on my head constantly. I think it only took around 13 hours but never again.

citytillidie · 08-12-2013 12:30PM

Longest journey was Derry to California. Bus to Dublin 4 hours flight to London 1 hour to Toronto 7 hours then Toronto to LA 5 hours then 2 hour drive from LA to California mountains.

Longest flight London to Vegas 13 hours

dazftw · 08-12-2013 12:30PM

boobar wrote: »

Australia....

17 hours to get there

Pfft

Took me 31 hours to get there, don't think I've ever been more bored in my entire life!

Ahhhhh its grand · 08-12-2013 12:31PM

Train from Beijing to Shenzhen, 23 hours, never again. Thought I was being smart paying by only 50 euro and saving about 100 euro by not flying. Felt like jumping in front of fecking thing halfway through.

BetterThanThou · 08-12-2013 12:32PM

Drove from Dublin to Doncaster and back without booking into a hotel or sleeping, whole journey was about 26 hours. Probably worked out around 20 hours if you count only the time spent traveling.
Furthest distance was either Tenerife or Cyprus.

CarrickMcJoe · 08-12-2013 12:35PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Ha! If i get another 36 years I'll be happy enough.

Another 36 years, the way you're going you will be back in Bagdad

kev1.3s · 08-12-2013 12:37PM

Sydney to warburton wa via Melbourne across the nullarbor and into Perth before hooking back to the great central road and onto warburton. Best road trip ever can't remember how long it took but it was over a week as we weren't in a rush

Seaneh · 08-12-2013 12:37PM

Cochabamba, Bolivia ----> Santa Cruz De La Sierra, Bolivia ----> Buenos Aires, Argentina ---> Madrid, spain ----> Dublin, Ireland ----> Athlone Ireland.

13,818km total if we were to pretend that I travelled between each in straight lines, so you could probably round it up to 15,000km.

Bus, flight, flight, flight, bus. about 3 hours sleep on the flight between Buenos Aires and Madird.

16 hours in Sant Cruz before my flight.
15 hours layover in Buenos Aires.
4 hour flight delay (+ original 3 hour layover) in Madrid (**** you Aer Lingus)
7 hour wait in Dublin Airport (thanks to the Aerlingus delay, I missed the last bust back to Athlone and had to wait until the morning).

So was a long auld travel "day".

Columbia · 08-12-2013 12:40PM

From my hometown to the city I now work in. It was about 30 hours. A taxi, three busses, two planes, another bus, another plane, and then another taxi. It was 7 weeks ago, and I still feel mentally exhausted after it.

JamBur · 08-12-2013 12:42PM

Drove from Cork to Sibiu, in Romania, and back again. Took a bit of a meandering route:) 6000km round trip!

I was in a bus from Florianopolis in the south of Brazil, to Manaus in the north. An american lad blocked the toilet on the bus.............not pleasant!

Agricola · 08-12-2013 12:48PM

Overnight train through Egypt, around 9/10 hours. Awake - probably another train journey which was 6 hours.

timmy4u2 · 08-12-2013 12:48PM

On a flight my longest journey was to South Africa. Dublin to Heatrow. Heathrow to JoBurg and Joburg to Cape Town. Around 14 hrs.
My longest -non stop in that the journey was not broken-driving journey was by jeep to Bulgaria and back bringing a Jeep to an orphanage in Romania, full of parts.

Rosslaire to Cherbourg 17 hrs on boat. Drive from Cherbourg across France below Paris, Le Mans, Orleans, into Germany, Nurenberg, Salzburg into Austria, down to Grad after crossing the Austrian Alps, Into Hungary.

Through Hungary and its lorry rutted roads, skirt south of Budapest and into Romania at Arad and going south to Timisaoira,skirting along the border of Serbia following the Danube to cross into Bulgaria via the New Vidin bridge , on to Plevin, collected two people there and on to Ruse to cross the Danube back inro Romania towards Bucharest.

Took two days to drive then down to Plovdiv, plane to London and on to Shannon

theteal · 08-12-2013 12:50PM

We did this for spring break (WHOHOO!) about 8 years ago. I took bloody longer than the 17 hours 37 minutes that google says too, more like 22-23. We travelled in a 7 seater chevrolet yoke and did it in one swoop with a few stops to stretch the legs - the yank lads took turns driving, they didn't think we could drive an auto on the right

Anyway, it culminated in Paddy's Day on South Beach, Miami which included a massive multinational game of ball - people just kept strolling up asking to play in all their different languages, it was savage!

We did the return trip 6 days later. It was still snowing in Cleveland. Quality holiday!

Sorry for going into a bit of a yarn but the subject of the thread got me reminicsing

timmy4u2 · 08-12-2013 12:52PM

Columbia wrote: »

From my hometown to the city I now work in. It was about 30 hours. A taxi, three busses, two planes, another bus, another plane, and then another taxi. It was 7 weeks ago, and I still feel mentally exhausted after it.

Is that what they call a mystery tour:)

El Horseboxo · 08-12-2013 12:53PM

2 years. Dublin to Dublin via the world.

Longest continuous was a few days. Vancouver to Oklahoma driving.

What's the longest journey you've been on?

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