“Barry,” my cousin Mike said, “I think it’s time.” It was clear that my brother didn’t feel the same way, but he only shrugged, which Mike took as agreement. “Dave,” he said, giving the words as much gravity as he could muster, “Go get the dictionary.” I was nine years old, and a tag-along. I’d walked in on my brother telling a story about how—during school that morning—a girl he knew got her period in the middle of French class. And I laughed like the dickens. And then they called me on it. After I’d lugged the dictionary down from the spare room, Mike told me to look up the word period and read out the definition. “The end of a cycle, a series of events, or a single action?” “Keep going,” he said. “The full pause with which a sentence closes?” “Not that.” “An interval of geologic—“ “Gimme that!” He yanked the book towards him, read down the page, and pointed me towards the definition he’d found. Menstruation: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from pu...
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Longest stretch driven in one day, though, as to be Toronto -> Brockville -> Charleston Lake -> Guelph -> Toronto.
Longest stretch in one day is from Thunder Bay to Regina, on that same trip.
When my wife moved from the desert to the Big M. We figured it would be cheaper to drive her stuff then get it shipped. Perhaps finacially this was correct but I still am paying the price mentally. We rented a sketchy U-Haul and spent 3 days in it with a cat who didn't react well to his drugs - hoping we didn't breakdown in the middle of nowhere. Have you ever tried to cross the border with a truck full of 'stuff'? Don't.
FOREVER. BUT it was fun!
We've also done Bon Echo -> Guelph -> Toronto in a day.
Driving is tiring on it's own. But at each stop we had to be sociable and stay for a while to visit. It makes for a very very long day.
I don't 'member things too well.
'Member that time when...
Katie and I did the NE U.S. swing on our road trip back in 2001. Detroit -- Guelph -- NYC -- Washington D.C. -- NYC -- Boston -- Kingston -- Guelph -- Detroit. In her parents' car. They were so nice.
Longest drive with other people: Halifax to Inginish and back again. I was the only one with a valid driver's license, we'd been camping, and I was exhausted on the way home. But because everyone wanted to sleep on the way home, they wouldn't let me turn on the radio or the air conditioning.
Longest drive by self: Sudbury to St. Catharines, Christmas 2004. There was a snowstorm, Hwy 69 hadn't been plowed, and there was black ice everywhere. What was normally a 5.5h drive turned out to be 9h. Not terrible, but what was scary were the number of people who flew past me, giving me the finger because I was driving "too slow".
The family and I, including stinky Scooter (dog), took off for a month-long tour of US and Canada. We went: Cornwall - Casper, Wyoming - Billings, Montana - Fort Something, Montana - Yellowstone - Calgary - Banff, Columbian Ice Fields - looooong ass prairies - Perry Sound - Cornwall.
Sheeeeesh! And it was fuuuun.
Longest single day trip I've ever done myself was to Montreal...in the Camaro on one tank of gas...gotta love getting 600KMs on one tank of gas in a V8 sports car. :)