Driving time

My driving days have run 5 to 22 hours, depending on the need to get where by when. There are diminishing returns. A five hour trip might be a full five hours of driving, at least four and a half. When it gets up to 18-22 hours, I more often lose 2-3 hours on breaks for meals and other refreshment.

A really long driving day takes some preparation, and doesn't work for consecutive days, so I might even delay the start of such a trip (or any trip longer than 10 hours) by a day to get ready, and have several times simply chosen to abandon the trip and the nearest major airport and fly to my destination (20 hour drive = 3 hour flight).

For consecutive travel days on a touring road trip, I try to limit my camp to camp time (when RVing) to 8 hours, and might be 3-6 hours actually moving. When using hotels, I might increase the length of the travel day to 10-14 hours, 8-12 of it actually moving.

Or are you asking about something else. I go at most three hours between rest breaks, sometimes two hours, but those breaks will be 5-15 minutes. When pushing my driving day beyond 10 hours, one of those breaks might include a 30 minute nap.

In case talking about hotels/motels raises a question of relevance, when going for maximum distance in minimum time, I do sometimes park the RV and stay at a hotel, it saves about two hours compared to going in and out of a campground. One could also Wallydock. Long trips abandoned to air travel, none of those were RV, rather for medical care (where comfort of patient during travel can matter) to get someplace for a family event like a funeral (six in the last four years).

As others have said... depends... If we are going from upstate NY (home) to Myrtle Beach, SC (890 miles) we do it in 2 days, one night at a Pilot/Flying J
I do all of the driving, DW does the navigating.. we don't normally do more than 6 - 8 hours max........

Depends on how far you need to go. I once did two 700 mile days in a row. Left central California on a Thursday evening after work and put in a few hundred miles that day. Then did the two 700 mile days on Friday and Saturday, and then on Sunday did the last few hundred miles into Oshkosh Wisconsin for the Airshow. Did four days at the air show and then took about 9 days driving back to California.

We don't do any more random sight-seeing outings. We usually are on the way to a destination. We don't mind getting up early, eat a quick breakfast and hit the road at 7:30 to 8:00 o'clock. We'll stop about every 2 to 3 hours to stretch and/or walk the little dogs. We eat from our kitchen,...unless we target a certain restaurant where we know there's good food. We'll do a quick overnight stop for sleeping, usually a Walmart. And, we get on the road early the next day. We enjoy the convenience of being self-contained. Our big motorhome is comfortable to drive. We avoid stressful situations, if possible.

about 8 hours I have had enough

If we are heading south in winter months we tend to put on the miles till we get into warmer climes so can do 12 hour driving day and second day get to stop mid afternoon/early evening latest.

When we are just mooching around from one location to another exploring, can end up doing stops and starts every few miles on secondary roads.

Coming home if mainly freeway driving and nothing of interest will tend to do one or two longer days.

When we headed to Florida straight did solid long driving days with breaks for meals and gasoline only over 4 days to get there to meet a deadline. Coming back took 6 weeks stopping and starting at look see locations and that wasn't long enough either!

Distance depends on what our goals are at the time. Now the chronological clock is challenging us, we are noticing we drive less with more breaks enroute even when further destination bound.

Typically we start out about 10 AM and around 2 PM we are thinking Happy Hour. We then search for a local full hookup campground with good ratings and usually stop between 3 to 4 PM. No long days or parking lots for us.

Lou
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If I am driving? 200 miles or four hours.

If my wife is driving? 300 miles or six hours.

We are retired and certainly in no rush.

One thing I experienced over the years if you want to cover long distance >>> get up at 6 AM and start driving. I leave with no breakfast that I make later at first stop about 9 AM and plan end driving about 6 PM.
This way you arrive at the end stop during the day and will not have to deal with closed doors and gates.

We carry a large US highway map that we use to mark every road we have ever traveled on during each trip. This covers all of the interstate highways and most all of the red and blue secondary roads. When we leave Florida we are usually just traveling in a direction but not necessarily to a destination.
What we try to do is take a different route as we travel than one that we have traveled on before. This is not always possible, especially out West, but we can usually mix things up a little.
Since we do travel a lot on secondary roads that we are unfamiliar with, we never have a set schedule. We also go through many small towns where we may decide to stop and explore, especially on weekends where there may be a local festival going on.
What this means is that we never make reservations at any campground and just decide to look for a place to stop when we get tired of driving that day. We have had less than 100 mile days and we have had a few 500 mile days. I would guess that we average 200 miles a day on most trips but we also may travel farther if we are trying to bypass a Winter storm..
Because of a family emergency, I once drove from Houston straight thru to our home in Florida for a total of about 1000 miles and 20 hours or so behind the wheel. Not something I would recommend to anyone.