What is the longest drive you've done ?

Once drove non-stop to the French Alps, dropped off Mrs Shed, two others and luggage, then immediately drove to Geneva airport to collect two more people and then back to the ski resort. I've never been wired like that, close to nearly 16hrs straight driving.
 
I was on a coach once from Manchester to the south of France with school. 30 hours of hell.
 
Bill Walker said:
I've never done a really long drive. So maybe this will be a crazy idea.

We are planning a trip from Brisbane to visit friends in Perth.
If it were possible to drive non-stop it would take about 60 hours using the coastal route Hwy 1.

Obviously that is not possible so we're planning to drive about 4 hours a day so should take roughly 18 days. We will spend 3 or 4 days not driving at all got staying in towns that sound interesting, like Coober Pedy where there are opal mines, you can visit, and wineries in the Barrosa valley. Things like that.

On the way back home we aim to go round the top end of Australia.
This would take 90 hours in one hit as it's longer. But we will take about 30 days to get back doing the same sort of thing.
Aiming to do this in our winter (June) as the trip home through the northern tropics would be too hot and humid in summer. (Top third of Oz is tropical)
Total driving time over 150 hours to circumnavigate Australia.

Has anyone done any long drives like this, any advice, tips etc. ?

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Looks fantastic, Bill. You’re definitely going to need to play some Midnight Oil on that trip.
 
Drive to Hamburg and back for the pre season friendly many moons ago and did our farm in North West South Africa to Durban and back which is a 28hr drive round trip when City toured under Mark Hughes.
 
I live in North Yorkshire and quite a few times I drove for work from home to Bristol, Cardiff and Horsham - did a days work then turned round and drove home. Fucking knackering. When the first born came I was living in Bournemouth and after working all day jumped in the car drove to my parents in Manchester - picked up a cot then turned around and went home. All very very tiring drives.
 
Manchester to south coast of france, apart from the break on the ferry it was non stop.

loaded on pro plus and full fat cola. Couldnt sleep for 2 nights when i got there
 
bluethrunthru said:
I live in North Yorkshire and quite a few times I drove for work from home to Bristol, Cardiff and Horsham - did a days work then turned round and drove home. Fucking knackering. When the first born came I was living in Bournemouth and after working all day jumped in the car drove to my parents in Manchester - picked up a cot then turned around and went home. All very very tiring drives.
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Now that’s impressive .
In a similar vein, I once drove to Skye , did a couple of hours work and drove back . Luckily it was midsummer so it was mostly in daylight.
Took me a day or so to recover .
 
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