Miles per day.

No more than around 400 miles per day. However, if it is windy back roads, we do less miles per day since it is more tired and time consuming.

So this thread shows up just after we get home from a 15 hour 925 mile ride Monday, leaving Elkhart Lake, WI at 5am Central and arriving home in NJ at 9pm. Complete with a bit of Chicago morning rush and a 30 mile detour off of I-80 in PA to avoid a pair of construction back-ups. Since I'm still very much engaged in the working world, the one-day drive back was necessary. On the trip out though, we took 3 part-days, leaving Saturday afternoon and "only" doing just under 400 miles, stopping at 9pm; the next day drove 3 hours in the morning to a visit with extended family until 7:30pm, then another 140 miles to a Walmart night, and finishing the trip at 2pm the 3rd day. Completely different way to travel than banzai runs for sure. We even stopped for an unscheduled breakfast at a Cracker Barrel that Monday to let traffic around Chicago die down.

The first day we do about 500 to 600 miles but after that we try to keep it around 300 to 400 miles.

Rob, we did that once heading to California from TN when I was wanting to take a car out there to leave for our new vacation residence. We left MEM and drove 8 hrs. to Oklahoma City, OK, then we kept going all the way to Palm Springs, CA.

Way back in '96 we drove 466 miles the first day then we drove 1,258 miles the second day. Since it was during the summer months and the clock kept inching back (time change) the sun was up as we drove west until at least 9PM. We arrived in CA at something like 1AM.

I will NEVER do that again. We were exhausted but we were much younger then! LOL!

It's fun to say that we spent just one night on the road driving almost 1,800 miles!

MM.

Man, some of you guys are beasts for driving so far in one day. Back when I was in my 30's I could drive my CAR 12-14 hours, but not anymore (62 now). I have 4 "rules":

1. You are not in a hurry
2. If you get in a hurry refer back to rule #1
3. The 330 rule; no more than 330 miles and get there by 3:30pm
4. Never drive the motor home more than 3 days in a row without a day off

These seem to work well. BTW - I'm still working full time and not yet retired.

Al

Until I retired I drove for a living. Have never understood how somebody could haul their family all day and half the night. Ok, you are on vacation, have a limited time to spend at destination. You create a danger by driving much longer than you normally work to get there. At least one day at the destination, you are asleep. I know it would be safer, and think it would be more fun to pick secondary "destinations" to drive a reasonable distance, stop, and enjoy yourself, get to the main destination more rested...

I use to get home early on Friday mow a 1+acre yard with push mower, wash the car and at 5:00 am Saturday hit the road to Michigan. Usually got there about 1:00.
600 miles...And Sunday evening head back and get home at 11:00 pm. Lot less traffic, in Nashville, Lousiville and Indy in the 70s and speed limit was 75mph in most places...for second gear. Twenty dollars fuel in340 Duster or 400 CI Plymouth Fury. Not any more.