what's the furthest distance you've travelled by yourself?

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mine is Scarborough (from London) - how pathetic is that eh? i went by coach to Leeds once and it took nearly 5 hours because it had just snowed after Christmas and I didnt trust Railtrack after the Hatfield crash (this was Xmas 2000) - and the coach took a massive detour from Heathrow to get on the M1 around Northampton - it stopped at Warwick, Coventry, Chesterfield, Sheffield on the way as well! exhausting but i got to see a lot of nice English countryside in the snow at least. by rail its a lot quicker of course...

include trips you've made alone to visit friends/family around the world i guess...but also the furthest you've travelled alone within your own country of residence - and think about the longest in terms of time as well as distance (i.e. nearer but longer journeys)

and include holidays or pilgrimages you've taken on your own with no intention of meeting friends/family at your destination too

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Barcelona --> Madrid --> Philadelphia --> Chicago.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Canterbury. Went to uni there for a few weeks.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:53 (twenty-three years ago)

details hstencil details!

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:54 (twenty-three years ago)

EZ for me -- the New Zealand/Australia trip last year, departing and returning to the LA area.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, sorry. I went to Spain with the girlfriend I had at the time. We flew out and back on separate airlines/flights. She went back a day before me, so I had to take the train from Barcelona back to Madrid, and then fly from Madrid back to Chicago, by myself (while carrying various things I bought for her). Needless to say, two weeks later we were kaput.

Longest distance I've travelled by myself in the U.S. is probably either Upstate NY --> Kentucky by car, or Chicago --> Phoenix --> Portland by airplane (Southwest sure is cheap, but their routing sucks).

― hstencil, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Back and forth to work and school for years and years. I think I have covered the circumference of the equator at least a couple of times at this point.

― Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Chicago to LA

In One Day/Night:
Chicago to Folly Beach, South Carolina

(I don't think plane flights should count here)

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Greyhound from Portland, OR to Denton, TX - 51 hours nonstop each way.

― Ryan McKay (Ryan McKay), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:00 (twenty-three years ago)

furthest = london-washington DC last year

within own country, hmm, bradford-glastonbury i guess

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:01 (twenty-three years ago)

oh, wait, that wasnt alone though. er, bradford-windsor?

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:02 (twenty-three years ago)

i've seen israel's arid plain
it was beautiful but so's maine

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:04 (twenty-three years ago)

For those in UK: What do you consider a long car trip? Could you reach the ocean from anywhere in less than 6 hours?

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Brighton - Glasgow (only the travelling bit was alone really).
Brighton - Lake District for a solo holiday.
Nowhere abroad, pretty pathetic really. Hm, unless going to Portugal with a group I didn't know beforehand counts.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:07 (twenty-three years ago)

london-toronto last year.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Rye-Manchester, entirely alone as per fucking usual.

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Within this country, Ormskirk -> Loughborough, and back in a day.
Last year I went to Spain on my own. I'm doing it again this year.

I don't know why flights shouldn't count. I've always found airports terrifying. Planes are fine, but from the moment I go through one passport control, until I go through the other one at the other end, I get panicky. I think it's the whole "no-man's land" thing.

― celeste (Celeste), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Sydney -> Maine, then London -> Maine

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Hitch-hiked from Vancouver island to Montreal and back. Made plenty of smaller cross-Canada trips as well, back when I thought I was Jack Kerouac.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Oops. I think of a long car journey as more than 3 hours. I start to go boss-eyed after that. I can get to the coast in 15 minutes. But it's Southport so it would take about half an hour of walking on sand to get to the sea. If the quicksand doesn't get you.

I think it should be possible to get to the sea in about 3 hours for most places in the UK. I could be wrong though.

― celeste (Celeste), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know why flights shouldn't count
If you can't stop to buy some overpriced novelty gifts in Podunktown, than it's not a real trip.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Celeste, does that mean you can't have long car journey in the UK? What a shame.
I knew an exchange student from UK (Leicester City--sp?) She loved the idea of a 'road trip'. The first chance she got, she criss-crossed the country. (The bitch said there was nothing interesting about Chicago)

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:21 (twenty-three years ago)

LA to Chicago over two and a half days starting on September 12, 2001.

― No One (SiggyBaby), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:24 (twenty-three years ago)

New York to Tokyo.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:28 (twenty-three years ago)

if flights don't count, then LA - Chicago

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:29 (twenty-three years ago)

By air— Honolulu to Miami

― No One (SiggyBaby), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Chicago --> L.A. --> Honolulu --> Hilo (by plane)

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Turin-Paris CDG-Paris ORL-Pont a Pitre (Martinique)-Castries St Lucia

Kahtmandu-Calcutta-Darjeeling-Patna-Bodh Gaya-Varanassi-Dehra Dun-Shimla-Dharmsala-Chamba-Amritsar-Dehli-Amsterdam-London

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Norfolk, VA to Seattle, WA to Taiwan ROC (air).

― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:37 (twenty-three years ago)

It would take me about 9 hours to drive to Land's End (pointy bit at the bottom), about 11 hours to get to John O'Groats (bit at the top on the east), and about 3.5 hours to get to Scarborough on the opposite coast.
For a "road-trip" we could keep doing circles around the coast. Or go all the way around the M25, which would probably take about the same length of time.

― celeste (Celeste), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 18:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Hong Kong to Hawaii to Washington DC to Williamsburg, VA.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Stuttgart - Minneapolis/St. Paul.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Nowhere in the UK is more than 75 miles from the sea, if I remember right.

My longest solo journey: either Edinburgh-London or London-Paris. The longest time-wise: Oxford-Edinburgh, a few days after the Hatfield train crash, when all the trains in the country had to slow down to 20mph every few miles.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Driving London-Turin and London-Perpignan-Turin

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:14 (twenty-three years ago)

From LA to Indonesia and back by way of Malaysia in the summer of 1992.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:21 (twenty-three years ago)

to the bathroom. I never go anywhere. I'm petrified of travelling (by plane).

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:22 (twenty-three years ago)

from Auckland to Dunedin and back. There by train/ferry/bus. Back by car.

― isadora (isadora), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Drove from Chicago to Gainesville, Florida to visit a buddy once. THat was a haul, but it was fun. Oh except, the way back the tape player crapped out so I had to listen to the radio (ugh).

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:26 (twenty-three years ago)

(Chris leaves out the fact that his bathroom is in Walla Walla.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm going to Malaga from Glasgow on my own next month and I hate flying. Furthest on my own so far is Inverness to Cambridge on a train.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Train London-Perpignan
Bilbao-Viadillid-Madrid-Barcelona-Perpignan
Turin Rome so many times

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:32 (twenty-three years ago)

so I had to listen to the radio (ugh).

Having done the same drive, I can say that AM radio in the South is strangely entertaining.

“I seen UN jeeps in Tennessee and I’m warning you good folks that the New World Order will soon be upon us. First, they’ll take away our guns, then they’ll legalize drugs, and then the whole of the UN will march in and make us bow to a One World Government. And that’s when the Beast will reveal hisself.”

― No One (SiggyBaby), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Turin-Naples

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:34 (twenty-three years ago)

From Portland, Oregon to Athens, Greece. First to London by airplane, then continuing by bus via Belgium, France, Italy, & what was then Yugoslavia. In five days.

― Aimless, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:41 (twenty-three years ago)

2900 miles

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:43 (twenty-three years ago)

In the UK: Bristol-Durham (I was considering going to uni in the latter) in 1977. Worldwide, the farthest I've gone entirely on my own was to New York - I then travelled on to San Diego with a colleague based in NY, but that isn't alone.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Let me restate that.

Truly the furthest I've travelled alone was about 100 miles on foot in the Canadian Rockies (the backcountry of Banff National Park). I hiked for 12 days, during which time I saw roughly 18 bighorn sheep and maybe a dozen people. Of the 12 days I was hiking I saw other people on 4 of them. The rest of the time I was the only human for miles in any direction. That's alone.

― Aimless, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Budapest - Los Angeles = 6,250 miles (that's only 200 miles further than Tokyo - San Francisco though).

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 20:08 (twenty-three years ago)

four thousand, three hundred and seventy-seven miles.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 20:19 (twenty-three years ago)

this country is big

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 20:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Either Manchester-Toronto (via London or Newark) or Manchester-London-Reykjavik-Baltimore. I've no idea which is further. If flying doesn't count then Prague to Wigan.

― Tag (Tag), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 20:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Flying on my own: London - Vancouver
Driving on my own: Geneva - Venice
Cycling on my own: Putney - Ealing - Putney
Walking on my own: Chelsea - Roehampton

― Mark C (Mark C), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 21:05 (twenty-three years ago)

If flying counts, I've been from Melbourne to London, and within Aust I flew from Melbourne to Perth last August (yay for internerd romances that go splat!).

Driving alone - never happened, I don't drive. Been on the bus between Melbourne-Canberra and Melbourne-Sydney a fair bit. Worlds Most Boring Trip. 10 hours of rocks, dead trees and sheep. There's always a brit backpacker to chat to, and always a very loud annoying american businessman yammering away while everyone is trying to sleep. This is why I now fly.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 21:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Sydney to London: plane
London - Monaco - Biarritz - London :hitchhike

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 21:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Hang on, I guess it would be:
Rye
Ashford
London
Heathrow
Paddington (via getting very lost on the district line at Earls Court)
Oxford (partly via Bus)
Manchester
Walking 45 minutes to Salford

Total journey time = circa 15 hours.

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 21:56 (twenty-three years ago)

oooh walking alone, thats an interesting one - i dont think i've walked more than an hour alone though...

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 22:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, I used to go on day-trips on my own, exploring Lewis (the third largest of the British Isles), for my degree. I used a mixture of buses and walking to get around; it was fairly easy to explore the coast of the island, but I avoided the interior as it's an uninhabited wilderness of bogs, hills and lochs. It looks beautiful, but I would just have got completely lost.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 22:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Driving alone:
The "loop the US" trip I took in 1994. There were only 10 states left (OK, AR, DE, RI, ME, NH, VT, WI, MN, ND) I hadn't been to when I hit the road so the object was to finish them off (while sticking to mostly non-interstate highways) From Los Angeles I went: LA -> down the OK panhandle to Tulsa -> across Arkansas -> down the length of Tennesee -> Washington DC -> Providence RI -> Portland, ME -> NH -> VT -> Ithaca, NY -> Cleveland -> Chicago -> Madison, WI -> Minneapolis -> down northern ND and MT on US-2 -> Seattle -> back to LA. Total of 11,000 miles in about 4.5 weeks.

Flying alone:
Lisbon, Portugal back to L.A.

Walking alone:
The overnight solo hike I took up to the summit of Mt. Whitney in 1989.

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 23:44 (twenty-three years ago)

me = manchester - toronto - flying obv.

my bother once help an ex girlfrind of his move from the t. to vancouver. he drove her out there then drove back by himself. for his ex. he wasn't even getting layed out of the deal he's so nice it makes me sick.

― dyson (dyson), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 23:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Wellington, NZ

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 20 February 2003 02:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I drove all around the continental U.S. by myself.. started from Seattle and went East, then south along the Atlantic, then west into the southwest, then back up.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 20 February 2003 03:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Driving - Northern California to Florida - in the summer, in a car with a broken A/C, hauling an overloaded trailer - three tire blowouts, one cracked radiator, one blown thermostat, one timing belt - oh, and I had to pay tow-truck trivers to literally haul me to the top of hills and mountains and such, as the couldn't make it without help. My tortoise ended-up with heat-stroke and I had to keep buying cold water bottles and placing them on her shell - when they got warm, I drank them and bought the next bottles. Couldn't roll-up the windows on the car (electric, and they broke). Last place I stopped for a hotel was in western New Mexico - after that I drove until I realized I couldn't see, then would pull over and sleep for an hour or two, then drive some more. In Lousiana I ended-up blowing - hmmmm - ah, yes, the distributor cap - ended-up broken-down at a rural truckstop that made "Deliverance" look to be the height of culture - no-one there spoke English that I could understand, the Lot Lizards (prostitutes who hang-out at truckstops) thought I was competition and one pulled a knife on me in the bathroom. Finally was rescued by some white cracker who decided to be my knight in shining armour and got the car running again(just barely) and then, instead of letting me pay for his time, tried to insist that I wanted to sleep with him and his buddies. YECH! So by the time I hit Orlando, the car was in such bad shape that everytime I slowed below 35 MPH it would overheat and stall - I had to run all of the tollbooths. Made it into my apartment complex and the car died. Gave-up the ghost. Keeled over. It was no more. And when I got out of the car I realized I could barely walk - I'd been sitting, (even when sleeping) in the car, for about 72 hours straight, stopping only to refuel and buy water (I lost 14 pounds in a week - and started smoking again) - and when I went to walk-up the steps my legs felt funny and then collapsed - my feet were swollen so large that the sandal straps were cutting into my skin.

Oddly enough, I still think it was a pretty cool adventure and wouldn't mind doing it again, provided I've a better car.

Other "on my own trip" - age 17 - SF to Frankfurt (plane) then train to Barcelona, via Paris - and speaking nothing but English. I drank so much that when I got home and had my film developed, I had to sent copies to my Barcelonan friend to tell me what the photos were about - I'd blacked-out a bit, I think. All the pictures of me I've a beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other. Why did I decide to grow-up? This so sucks!

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Thursday, 20 February 2003 05:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Driving alone: Seattle -> Vancouver-> western side of the Vancouver Island (it's huge- took almost 4 hours to drive across a fairly narrow section to Tofino!) That's the only significant solo road trip I've done, actually.

Flying: Seattle->Boston, which I do far too many times a year. I hate flying with other people, actually- I went on a trip with my dad last year, and as cool as he was, it was soooooooooooo annoying to not be to retreat into my grumpy glare-at-anyone-who-talks-to-me travel mode. I'm usually pretty friendly, but being squashed into an airplane turns me into a total bitch, so I prefer just to not deal with people.

― lyra (lyra), Thursday, 20 February 2003 05:40 (twenty-three years ago)

San Francisco CA USA to Cairo, Egypt via San Diego, CA USA, Los Angeles, CA USA and Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Drive one way rental from SF CA USA to pick up tickets in SD CA USA (do not ask why). Commuter plane to LA CA USA. 4 hour stopover. Non-stop KLM flight to Amsterdam. 8 hour stopover. Non-stop Martin Air flight to Cairo. 18 month layover in Cairo. Return trip pretty much the same except KLM all the way from Cairo to SF. No stopovers in SD or LA.

― wutchootawkinboutwillis (wutchootawkinboutwillis), Thursday, 20 February 2003 06:23 (twenty-three years ago)

A few years ago, I flew alone from NYC to Sarajevo and bussed/hitchhiked around the Balkans and Eastern Europe, then flew to the Middle East and visited Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Israel. It took about 5 months. That was pretty far, I guess.

Oh, but I'm currently in the middle of a round-the-world trip. Started in NYC, spent four months in Tokyo, HK, southwest China, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand. I'm headed back to China in a few weeks, then headed along the Silk Road thru Pakistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kygryzstan, Kazakstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey, then a stop in the UK before I head back to the States. Anyone want a postcard? Or better yet, does anyone have any good friends/relatives in Iran who can get me a personal-invitation? I'd be willing to pay.

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 20 February 2003 06:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Hell and back, about five times at university.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 20 February 2003 08:35 (twenty-three years ago)

La Maddalena -> Olbia -> Rome -> Frankfurt -> Philadelphia -> Atlanta

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 20 February 2003 08:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Lisbon - heathrow - gatwick - edinburgh, the person who was supposed to be flying the lisbon to heathrow leg with me decided to stay on so i made my way back from portugal all on my ownsome.

― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 20 February 2003 09:46 (twenty-three years ago)

furthest alone: probably cheltenham - glasgow, although have done cheltenham - darlington loads of times when at college.

i have never been on a plane without anyone i've known, in fact never without my wife (honeymoon was the first time i'd been on a plane).

furthest coach journey (en famille, but quite a journey): Darlington - Estartit in Northern Spain, 27 hours...

also also HELLO PHIL! HELLO AILSA!

[so is the s*n*ster takeover complete yet?]

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 20 February 2003 09:59 (twenty-three years ago)

London - Kuala Lumpur - Perth in terms of flying, th return took longer as there was an overnight stop in KL where I stayed in a hotel within the airport so I didn't have to go through passport control etc for just 6 hours.

Walking - Dronfield to Chesterfield

Driving - can't drive.

Bus - London to Prague - about 26 hours
Train - Bangkok to Ko Tao (included two hours on a boat)

― chris (chris), Thursday, 20 February 2003 10:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Limenaria to Limena, Greece (on the Island of Thasos) with a bus; Limena to Kavala with the ferry; Kavala to Thessaloniki with another bus; Thessaloniki to New York with a plane; New York to Baltimore with a plane. That was a loooooong trip.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 20 February 2003 10:20 (twenty-three years ago)

By myself? Cross-country bus trip, starting in Portland (popular departure point, apparently) and ending in NYC.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 20 February 2003 10:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Greyhound bus from Milwaukee to St Louis, then flight to Heathrow. With a big suitcase, a big rucksack, another bag and a big case of LPs (100). It was fun carrying those from the Greyhound stop to the airport check-in.

― James Ball (James Ball), Thursday, 20 February 2003 17:11 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

walking: i still don't think i've ever walked more than 5 miles alone, could be even less than that. would love to do a big long hike one day soon though.
by train: New York to Chicago on Amtrak
by plane: London to New York and back

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

poland

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

Norwich, UK to London to Boston, MA

― Jdubz (ex machina), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Driving: New Jersey to Atlanta.
Flying: New Jersey to London, and then London to Glasgow.
Bus: just NYC to Boston. Never tried a Greyhound marathon.

― mike a, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

I dunno. I travelled from NYC to London to South Africa as an unaccompanied child - but I think my brother was with me.

By myself, NYC to London to Amsterdam.

I used to travel by myself a lot. Now I just don't like travelling that much any more.

― Streatham's Paisley Princess (kate), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

Glasgow to Barbados via Manchester, London and the Azores. Back again.

I love the freedom of travelling alone.

― Rumpie, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

SF - Tokyo or Paris - Tokyo, not sure which is longer.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

On foot: probably Camden to Waterloo
In a car: Glasgow to Chesterfield
By train: Paris to Tarbes (at the age of 12!)
By plane: London to Denver

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

I thought driving down the Eastern Seaboard by myself would be fun. Problem is that I didn't budget enough time to do anything on the way to and from Atlanta. In retrospect I would've spent less time in Atlanta and more time stopping in cities and towns along the way. I stopped in Chapel Hill both ways, which was fun. On the way home I popped a few Enerjets and drank coffee; the combination made me jittery, paranoid, and still tired.

― mike a, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

after christmas my answer will be Manchester to New York!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

I flew from NYC to Israel and back by myself. There's nothing really all that unusual feeling about traveling by yourself to meet other people, IMO, but actually *traveling* by yourself is different.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

(x-post Paris to Tokyo is further, by about a thousand miles)

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

Similarly to Ed, I once took a plane from Milan to London and then down to St. Lucia. On the way back on New Year's Eve, we had to land in Turin and take a coach back to Milan. I got to a club where I was supposed to meet some friends and checked all my luggage in at the coat-check three or four minutes before midnight.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

walking: probably scarboro to filey. or leeds to shipley. about 16 miles anyway
train: washington to boston
air: london to seattle, or london to sacramento (whichever is further)

― terry lennox. (gareth), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

Flying, San Francisco to London, round-trip.
By train, Tuscaloosa to Newark, round-trip.
By car, Redding, Calif. to Amory, Miss., one way. (Accompanied by two yowling cats.)
On foot, probably not more than a mile or two.
By bike, about four miles from home to the red clay cliffs that we played on as kids, next to the railroad tracks in Quincy, Miss.

I've learned to like travelling alone — by necessity, since my wife doesn't seem to like leaving the house.

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

Went to Strasbourg on me own. By air from London City.

Went to Budapest on me own from Heathrow, but I was met by my mum & dad there.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

Rochester, NY - Santiago, Chile (with 7 hours spent circling Santiago, flying over the Andes to Argentina to refuel, then back to Santiago to circle some more) and Seattle - Hobart, Tasmania for flying. I drove alone from Indianapolis to Phoenix and later from Phoenix to Seattle when moving. Rumpie OTM - solitary travel is great.

― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

Manchester-London-Austria. 2 planes,1 taxi and a train.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

by plane - london - nyc, though in April I'll be going london - adelaide

By car - Glasgow - London

By train - Glasgow - London

by foot - goodness, I'm so lazy when I'm on my own. Probably when I was first moving down to london and flat hunting. I walked from the british museum to south kensington.

I don't go on holiday completely on my own, so if I'm travelling alone it's because I'm meeting up with someone there. Only time I'll travel on my own and not meet up with anyone is if I'm going to a conference or something like that.

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

Non-stop, alone:
Longest - Leeds > Heathrow > Madrid > Havana
Most tortuous - Lekeitio (Basque country) > Bilbao > Santander > Stansted > King's Cross > Leeds

― Adam Faithless (Adam Faithless), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

London-DC and back, twice, in 1998. Useful fact-finding mission.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

HEH

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

I'll say.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

Walking: 100 miles, along the Ridgeway path
By bike: 150 miles, solo 24hr mountainbike race

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

I flew round the world on my own (obviously I don't mean I was a solo pilot) when I went travelling: London - San Francisco - LA - Sydney - Bangkok - London (not all on the same day, that would be pointless hell).

I drove on my own to Sussex to Pisa in Italy (it took three days).

I've got a train from London to Manchester and back in the same day many a time.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

Saturdays, mostly Teh HoBB?

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

London, UK to Toronto, Canada – 3559 miles
London, UK to Detroit, USA – 3762 miles
In the car – London to Edinburgh – about 400 miles

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

Saturdays, mostly Teh HoBB?

Oddly enough, yes. There's a fantastic Sainsbury's in Manchester which I love to go shopping in at the weekend. ;)

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

LHR* - LAX and back, 11 or so times - not so useful fact-finding missions.

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

i lied above.

by foot: about 12-15 miles from Worcester to Grafton when I had no car. Almost got picked up by a guy offering me a ride who looked like Rick James, his name was Sandy Muse...he managed the Pizza Hut.

by car: from Worcester to Burlington Vt to deliver lab samples. I used to love that ride (and I did it daily) when I was 21-22 until I started to get panic attacks in the white mountains.

by plane: florida to baltimore, baltimore to hartford

by train: worcester to DC.

― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

500 miles. and i would walk 500 more.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

On foot: 50 miles, non-stop (22hrs!)
In a car: MN to NH (1,369mi)
By train: NYC to Mpls
By plane: Mpls to London

― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

by foot? i don't know... probably about 9 miles. was bored so i just started walking.
in a car... 200 miles? i don't like to drive by myself. i have a problem where i constantly worry about my car falling into the sky, and suddenly feel as though i'm driving upside down on the earth.
by train sf to la.
by plane la to italy.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

in a car... 200 miles? i don't like to drive by myself. i have a problem where i constantly worry about my car falling into the sky, and suddenly feel as though i'm driving upside down on the earth.

oh dear

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

walking: Ladbroke grove to Hanwell, I think. I've definetely done Shephard's Bush to Hanwell.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

Walking by myself? I've gone quite large distances. Stamford Hill to Hoxton, Oxford Street to Hammersmith. On occasion, I used to walk home from school when I was as teenager and that was about 12 miles.

― Streatham's Paisley Princess (kate), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

Tokyo -> Hawaii (stayed there for about ten days with a friend) -> San Francisco (stayed there for 24 hrs) -> Europe (can't remember end destination, sorry)

Had to take a stop in San Francisco to get that *cheap* TicketAroundTheWorld.

― Nathalie, the Queen of Frock 'n' Fall (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

you must have had sore feet by the end of that nath!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

I went from Glasgow to Buenos Aires, via Frankfurt. Hopefully next year I'll go Madrid to Shanghai! I don't really know which of those is further, my geography is so poor.

I quite enjoy travelling by myself, usually. It's travelling with other people that can get unbearable.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

No, just phat claves because of all the swimming. ;-)

― Nathalie, the Queen of Frock 'n' Fall (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

When I was 12, I took Amtrak by myself from Rochester, N.Y., to Santa Fe. It was a great trip. I had a layover in Chicago, so I spent the night with my grandmother there, but was otherwise on my own. Spent a lot of time in the club car, watching the landscape out the big windows. Met a nice family from Indiana who had a son my age, we stayed up playing Uno until 1 a.m.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

All around Europe and the odd fringe: France - Spain - N. Africa - Italy - Switzerland - Germany - Netherlands.
And: Up through Norway, down through Sweden - Finland - Russia (St Petersburg only) - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden - Denmark.
And up and down the UK and Ireland.
I don't drive so it's all public transport and shoe leather.

― Pvt Dave Goes To Far (scarlet), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

Paris -> Prague -> Paris -> London -> New York -> Minneapolis.

I love the freedom of travelling alone.

Me too.

― xero (xero), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

plane: Chicago-Philadelphia-London
car: St. Louis-Kalamazoo
train: London-Paris-Geneva-Florence-Rome-Nice-Barcelona-Paris-London
bicycle: Chicago-Winnetka-Chicago

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

plane: tokyo -> chicago
car: chicago -> denver
train: urumqi, china (place with the distinction of being the farthest city from an ocean) to shanghai. it was like 70 hours.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

Plane: Los Angeles to Turku, Finland (two legs, transfered in Amsterdam). (I've also gone to Milan, but I'm guessing that's not as far). Both of these were for work.
Driving: Only 120 or so miles, LA to San Diego. But I rode with my family from Trenton New Jersey to Merced California in '67 in a VW camper van when I was 10.
Walking: Probably only two or three miles.

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

I drove from my home in CT to Miami a couple years back. I also flew to Europe and spent some time by myself there (as well as along friends).

― Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

Unless you piloted the (otherwise-unoccupied) airplane, I fail to see how plane trips count as traveling by yourself.

My longest actual solitary roadtrip: 3000 miles to and from my grandmother's deathbed.

― M. V. (M.V.), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

Walking: 22 miles round trip from portal to the summit of Mt. Whitney
Car: Los Angeles -> Tennessee -> Maine -> Chicago -> North Dakota -> Seattle -> Los Angeles. 11,000 miles total
Plane: Lisbon -> Los Angeles

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

Forgot one...

Bus: Watson Lake, Yukon -> Vancouver, BC

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

If the Russians had won the Russo-Japanese War a hundred years ago, it would be possible to travel west by train from New York to London (England, not Ontario). And were it not for the ancient political enmities of southern Central American (also dating back a hundred years), it would be possible to drive from Pt. Barrow to the Cape of Storms.

Fuckin' hundred years ago. I hate those guys.

― M. V. (M.V.), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

Um, wrong Cape name, I guess. You know what I mean...

― M. V. (M.V.), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

Horn...

― M. V. (M.V.), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

By Plane - Glasgow to Michigan
By Car - Glasgow to Huddersfield
By Train - Glasgow to London
By Foot - Some stupid sponsored walk i had to do at high school, it was either 10km or 10 mile i can't remember which but km seems more reasonable.

― jeffrey (johnson), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

by myself? cross country. many many times.

― america's next top ramen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

Unless you piloted the (otherwise-unoccupied) airplane, I fail to see how plane trips count as traveling by yourself.

A co-worker bought a plane (Cessna 210) in South Africa and flew it back to the LA area, stopping in various towns on the west coast of Africa, the Azores, Scotland (I think), Newfoundland, New York, and then more stops across the US, ending at the Santa Paula airport west of L.A.

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

Unless you piloted the (otherwise-unoccupied) airplane, I fail to see how plane trips count as traveling by yourself.

:-(

i don't drive. i've never been anywhere by myself!

― america's next top ramen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

probably dc->ny->london->prague and back,
by car dc->rochester,ny
within the US by plane, NY->LA

― carly (carly), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)

I think I should start a teleportation thread.

― M. V. (M.V.), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

new york to boston via bus, depressingly enough. i don't drive and have never been on a plane or boat by myself.

― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

Well, I've only done major travel alone anyway.. but in terms of mileage, it would be the NYC/London/Iceland trip I took from Seattle summer of last year.

As far as just working hard to travel, I did a solo road trip around the continental U.S. in spring 2002 that lasted a month.

― iDonut B4 x86 (donut), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:56 (twenty years ago)

The Aus/NZ trip I'm planning for spring of next year will outdo the former, of course.

― iDonut B4 x86 (donut), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:56 (twenty years ago)

Oh, planes don't count? Well, that road trip from 2002 then. (sorry)

― iDonut B4 x86 (donut), Thursday, 10 November 2005 03:57 (twenty years ago)

The road trip was

Seattle-->Bozeman--->Fargo-->Minneapolis-->Madison-->Chicago-->Detroit/Dearborn-->Toronto-->Montreal-->Boston-->NYC-->Philadelphia-->D.C.-->Richmond-->Durham/Chapel Hill-->Charlotte-->Athens-->Atlanta (just for oil service)-->New Orleans-->Austin-->Santa Fe-->Albuquerque-->Flagstaff-->Meteor Crater-->Grand Canyon-->Painted Desert-->Zion National Forest-->St. George-->Las Vegas-->Los Angeles-->San Francisco-->Ashland OR-->Seattle

― iDonut B4 x86 (donut), Thursday, 10 November 2005 04:02 (twenty years ago)

I traveled to and from Dallas by myself. Only about 600 miles, round trip.

― This Field Left Blank (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 10 November 2005 04:16 (twenty years ago)

Oh, planes don't count?

Sure planes count. I was just bein' a wise guy.

― M. V. (M.V.), Thursday, 10 November 2005 04:50 (twenty years ago)

why do buses and trains count but planes don't?

by bus, the longest trip was portland, oregon to nyc (gorgeous mountain scenery and then through the flatlands of nebraska, etc).

by train, nyc to los angeles (via chicago and the midwest and then down the santa fe trail)

by car (i was with one other person): princeton junction, nj to phoenix, az (nj -> pa -> wv -> oh -> il -> in -> mo -> ks -> ok -> tx -> nm -> az, along old route 66)

by plane, unaccompanied: any of my east coast west coast runs.

― america's next top ramen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 10 November 2005 04:51 (twenty years ago)

there was supposed to be a < - > in there, but the internet ate it.

― america's next top ramen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 10 November 2005 04:52 (twenty years ago)

perth (australia) to dublin return. numerous times.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 10 November 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)

greenville, sc --> florence, italy.

by car - greenville, sc --> rochester, ny (~13 hours)

― tehresa (tehresa), Thursday, 10 November 2005 06:11 (twenty years ago)

By car - Little Rock to Portland, Maine with stops in Knoxville and Brooklyn.

By plane - LIT to MSP to LAX to Sydney, Australia. And back again.

By train - Um, Brooklyn to Central Park?

By bus - Xalapa to Vera Cruz, VC, Mexico. Longest two and a half hours of my life.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 10 November 2005 06:22 (twenty years ago)

I don't think that I've ever been on a boat or ferry without someone else I know before.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 10 November 2005 06:23 (twenty years ago)

chicago > l.a. > new zealand (and back, of course)

completely alone--as in didn't meet up w/ anyone:

chicago > nyc > london (and back)

i don't drive so the longest i've been alone in a car = out of the garage. :] but on my bike...i'd say a good 12 miles for one trip. not too much.

― sonore (sonore), Thursday, 10 November 2005 07:19 (twenty years ago)

TO TEH HEART OF THE UNIVERNSE ON A ASTRL PALNE!

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 10 November 2005 07:29 (twenty years ago)

by train, unaccompanied - new york to baltimore, round trip

― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 10 November 2005 08:10 (twenty years ago)

southend - stockholm

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 10 November 2005 08:43 (twenty years ago)

Unless you piloted the (otherwise-unoccupied) airplane, I fail to see how plane trips count as traveling by yourself.

Have you never felt alone in a crowd? If not, congratulations. Now teach me. ;-)

― Nathalie, the Queen of Frock 'n' Fall (stevie nixed), Thursday, 10 November 2005 08:53 (twenty years ago)

yangshuo to beijing. by a bus with a hole in the floor, a ride for Y10 on the back of some guy's motorbike, and a train. i've no idea how far it is but it took two and a half days. when i got to beijing no one had come to meet me because the idiot guy who was supposed to give the fax i'd sent him to my friends hadn't given it to them.

i love travelling alone; it feels like stolen time.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 10 November 2005 10:45 (twenty years ago)

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