What's the furthest you've travelled without leaving the ground?

Okay, the rules are that you're not allowed to include aircraft (that's leaving the ground) or travel on water (that's not on the ground). It can only be things attached to the ground by gravity (cars, trains, taxis, bikes, feet, skateboards, scooters, or on the backs of is it normal members. That kind of thing).

Also, you can't include changed modes of transport. If you drove 300 miles, walked a mile to a train station, then got the train for 350 miles, your highest is 350 miles.

However, if you also want to answer including all ground-based transport for a single journey (in the case of the above, you did 651 miles in one journey) you can answer that as well (this is an equal opportunity poll) but tell us you had multiple modes of transport otherwise you will ruin my entire post and I will scowl at you.

Maybe even twice!

Less than a mile 1
A mile to ten miles 0
Ten miles to 50 miles 1
50 miles to 250 miles 5
250 miles to 1000 miles 9
1000 miles to 2500 miles 12
2500 miles plus 14
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  • thegypsysailor

    Drove from Marathon, in the Fla Keys to Skagway, Alaska (and back), twice.
    Great adventures both times as it was early April and the weather was still on the rough side. On that trip you cross the Rocky Mountains three times, each way.

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  • Aub

    My Mom and Grandmother took my newborn sister and I when I was 5 about 2,034.1 mi to Arizona in a car. It took 3 days because we stayed in hotels along the way. My Grandmother was afraid of flying but that's okay. It was awesome. I'll never forget the experience.

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  • Avant-Garde

    North: NYC

    South: Florida

    West: Virginia

    East: Somewhere in my state. It was either the beach or the city.

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  • SpaceAce

    524 miles, from South Wales to Holland.

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  • jc25

    You do realize that it'd be very hard to drive 2500 miles without walking one step? Technically you are travelling on foot as soon as you do that (though you're not making any net progress). What if the car moves a little before you get back, does that invalidate it?

    What if you change from a vehicle to one of the same kind? If I go 2,000 miles, stop for 2 days, take a subway, walk and go back, does that count for double? What if it was 2 weeks? 2 months? When does it stop being the same trip? If you're a NASCAR driver is that 500 miles? If you have a road trip back and forth across a continent to every major section is that like 10,000 miles?

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  • elenaki

    I don't know... Athens to Sofia...? I've traveled a lot with a car.

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  • scamps027

    I took a trip from Minnesota down to South Carolina... I guess that's about 2000-2500 miles?

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  • wigsplitz

    About 1700 miles by car, only stopping for gas. My husband and I shared the driving duty. Made this trip 5 times total.

    I went by bus about 2200 miles but I don't know if it counts since I had to switch busses a few times along the way and had a layover of 5 hours at one stop. It took 3 days to get where I was going, it was a nightmare! Towards the last day this transient gentleman got drunk and belligerent and got kicked off the bus, and at the layover a woman near me was worried that police dogs would come by and sniff out the crack pipe she had in her luggage. I hate busses.

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    • Yeah, we can count the bus journey seeing as they're all part of the same overall journey. I was more interested in just getting different answers than applying rules. I mean, I'm not doing a rigorous experiment. I was just curious.

      Nice to see you back, by the way.

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  • howaminotmyself

    I took a roadtrip from Portland to Mesa Verde to Vegas, up through Cali, and back to Portland. It took a little over a week and I put about 2700 miles on my car.

    And oddly, I took a different roadtrip that started in Portland, detoured through California and landed in Indiana that was about 2700 miles as well.

    As for maximum mileage driven in one day by me alone, about 600.

    I have a few miles under my wings.

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  • Justsomejerk

    4500kms in feb 2012. Bought a car in Sydney and drove to Perth via Melbourne. Have to admit 1km was by car ferry from mornington to belarine peninsula.

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    • That is permitted! I'm a fair OP!

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  • KnightNigelWellingtonXXI

    I've ridden in a car from San Jose, CA to San Diego. Then, San Diego to Las Vegas. Which way is longer?

    Signed,
    Knight Nigel Wellington XXI

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  • Shrunk

    Florida when we moved there from Ohio so somewhere between 1000-2500

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  • NotFloydzie

    Not that far. Like nana, I'm pretty bad estimating measurements and distances. I live in Jersey and I've been to New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Delaware, and Maryland by car. Pretty much all the states around me.

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  • i drove 1,470 miles from the cane fields in northern australia to the south, was i chewing on some sugar cane? yes and i made myself sick :(

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  • bananaface

    I've been to London by train. I can't say how many miles that is, because I don't know, and my mind does not work well with guessing measurements *at all*. I could guess, but I'll end up showing how stupid I am:P. It's really embarrassing how wrong my estimates are.:(

    Actually, I just remembered that I got a coach to Dover once, so that I could get the Ferry to France. So the coach probably beats the train, doesn't it?

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