Anyone done any cool roadtrips?

The furthest I've gone is a 30 mile round trip in one day, and that was on a bicycle 0.o

A few mates and I are planning a trip for next summer though, going up the east coast to Scotland, down the west coast to cornwall and back up the south-east coast, probably take a full 6 weeks :)
 
[TW]Fox;15402677 said:
Did Melbourne to Cairns via Great Ocean Road, Adelaide, Hay Plains, Bathurst, Sydney, Brisbane and Townsville this summer. Was awesome.
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Did you rent a 530D?
 
I drove from the UK to Cyprus. That was quite good fun. Across the alps, down croatia, through Greece then a ferry to Cyprus.

Also done the run down to Morocco by car which was rather exciting.

Want to do what used to be Route 66 at some point.

Drove from LA to San Fran, then down to Vegas via the Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam. Took a fair bit of time :o
 
A year or two back I used to drive roughly the route the OP is planning every couple of months for work. I had a fair bit more to do on the UK side than the OP and slightly less in Germany. Personally I prefer the tunnel to the ferry as it's quicker and less of a faff, not to mention less seasickness-inducing. It's a pleasant enough route overall, though not terribly exciting and the traffic on the motorways in Belgium can get a bit M25-like.

The "coolest" road trip I've done by car was about 6000 miles around Europe in a '74 Beetle which was about 15 years old at the time. The route started in the UK, across to Ostend, through Belgium and Holland to Münster in north Germany, down to south Germany dipping into Austria and Switzerland, then right across the middle of France and the north of Spain to Salamanca, diagonally across Spain to Murcia, across the south of Spain to Seville, then right across Spain and France again back to south Germany before finally heading back to the UK through Luxembourg and France. The whole trip took the best part of a couple of months. It wasn't all driving as I spent quite a bit of time in some of the places once I got there, but I did drive for 18 hours at a stretch on one occasion stopping only for fuel, food and the like. Incidentally I don't recommend driving for that long in one go; it wasn't a particularly pleasant experience.

My limit now is the 12-13 hour drive from where I live down to the Alps, which I do (or did until recently) a couple of times a year.
 
CBJ said:
A year or two back I used to drive roughly the route the OP is planning every couple of months for work. I had a fair bit more to do on the UK side than the OP and slightly less in Germany. Personally I prefer the tunnel to the ferry as it's quicker and less of a faff, not to mention less seasickness-inducing. It's a pleasant enough route overall, though not terribly exciting and the traffic on the motorways in Belgium can get a bit M25-like...
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Snippety snip.

Excellent beetle roadtrip. I cant imagine actually doing anything that awesome. How old were you?

I was thinking about the traffic btw. We'll be getting to France about 10:00am, then I presume to Belgium around an hour and a half later, so around lunchtime. How do you think it will be then? Fingers crossed we'll miss most of it.

Could go up to Antwerp, rather than swing round the northern part of Brussels, but I'm not sure. Any hints on the best way to go to get there would be really handy.
 
New wifey and I did Seattle>Astoria>Portland>Mount Hood (Shining location)>Sooke (Vancouver Island)>Vancouver in september, was awesome, especially Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood!
 
alexthecheese said:
Excellent beetle roadtrip. I cant imagine actually doing anything that awesome. How old were you?
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I was around 20 and a student.

alexthecheese said:
I was thinking about the traffic btw. We'll be getting to France about 10:00am, then I presume to Belgium around an hour and a half later, so around lunchtime. How do you think it will be then? Fingers crossed we'll miss most of it.

Could go up to Antwerp, rather than swing round the northern part of Brussels, but I'm not sure. Any hints on the best way to go to get there would be really handy.
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The Antwerp route and the Brussels route are fairly equal. The motorway ring around Brussels can be horrible, but then again so can the tunnel under Antwerp. While rush hours are obviously the worst, you can also get heavy traffic at weird times when you wouldn't expect it. There's a large element of luck involved, but at that time of day I think I'd take my chances with the Antwerp option.
 
From Florida to outskirts of Miami and around Florida was good - 2005 Cadilac DTS or somthing. 4.6V8 woot

Driven from Calgary, Canada through the rockies along the ice road whatever its called in the rockies, into BC and then into vancouver Island up to Tofino then down into the USA via St. Helens then back to BC, was a fair trek. This was in a new Ford Explorer with a V6

Driven from Northampton to Limoges in France and back also in a 2.0 mondeo lpg converted :(

Driven from London through France, Belguim to AMSTERDAM, was awesome dressed as pirates! in a Honda Accord

About do drive to the gold coast from Sydney and for Christmas am driving down south 8hours also for a mission. in a 2009 Subaru Impreza RS i been using.

Love road trips, get to see so much more of the country.
 
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In Canada, I drove from Peace River > Edmonton > Airdrie > Calgary > Medicine Hat > Lethbridge > Crowsnest Pass > Banff > Jasper > Edmonton > Peace River.
It was something like 5000km in a week.

Once, I took a coach from Edmonton, all the way across Canada and down to New York. That was 3.5 days spent in a coach which I will never ever ever do again.
 
benjo said:
Cool! We got as far as Narbonne, spent quite a few days on the beach having bbqs and beers :D

Driving on those roads were so much fun.
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I'll see your road and raise it to the one I drove on below in Nevada 2005.

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