From 29607 to 33065; about 700 miles.

Stayed for 3 weeks and then drove back.

 

my first S was from green bay WI to biloxi MS
the second S was from indianapolis to biloxi both in one day and in different occasions.

the thing is that i always say "i am not doing that s%$# again" but i just love driving this car that i honestly look forward into doing road trips.

 

I've done the cross-country (literally) drive three times now, all of them in my old dear, departed BB6 Prelude: 2004, from Virginia Beach to San Diego by way of Charlotte, Atlanta, Dallas, and Phoenix. That drive across Texas on I-20/10 is absolutely brutal! Took about 4 days to do it, because I lost the hydraulic system for the clutch just outside of Augusta, GA.

Next trip was from San Diego to Bath, NY via Phoenix, Flagstaff (where my CD player cut out ), Oklahoma City, St. Louis, and Dayton. That one was the worse because I lost my CD player on the morning of the second day and was stuck listening to Clear Channel owned Top 40 and Country stations across the midwest. To this day, I can't hear "I'm in Love with a Stripper" without getting physically ill.

Last trip was back across the bottom of the US on the I-20 route- made it in about 2 1/2 days from Pensacola back to SD, with no major car problems thus far. I'll be moving to Raleigh, NC next year, and I'm planning on making the cross-country drive in my S, probably by way of I-40 this time.

Longest trip thus far in the S has been from San Diego to LA and back, and the only problem with that was dealing with stupid LA drivers first thing on a Friday morning, then getting stuck behind them heading south through Orange County. As soon as I hit Oceanside, I headed for the Coast Highway.

 

20hrs from Norfolk, Va to Miami, Fl. The Georgia state line was a mess and I sat in traffic for three hours at five mile an hour. But I never got tired of driving with the top down.

 

I drove from Irvine to Seattle when I bought mine. Was like 1200 miles in one sitting, it was good to get home

 

Chicago to Houston and back in 48 hrs, and I stopped to sleep about 12 hours.

 

When I got out the military I traveled from Newport News, Virginia to Bremerton, Washington in 4 days. 12 hour drives. Every 2 hours had to fill up on the half way mark. Top down 90%. It was by far the most comfortable drive. The scenery was outstanding! Oh and this was the second time I've driven across country

 

longest trip for me and my wife in the S was 1,100 miles and then the return trip the next day. Only thing that made it worth it was top down all the way, the car is supremely comfortable on long distances. Its our first choice of car when we are going out of town.

 

1300 miles. Queens to Miami. 19 hrs only stopping for gas.

 

I regularly use my S for long, multi-day tours, most frequently up and down the length of the Appalachians, but also throughout New England and into the Maritime Provinces.

I just got home from WTD 2010 and took five days to get there from Ottawa, Ontario, covering 1,625 miles on the way down and roughly the same on the return portion. Adding the few hundred miles I did while there, this was a 12-day trip of about 4,000 miles.

That's fairly typical for me. Because I look for not just secondary but tertiary back roads, and especially for ones that I've never driven before (increasingly hard to find after some 30 years of roadsurfing around eastern North America), my routes to any destination are usually pretty "indirect" and on roads that require a lot of speed variation and frequent stops to consult the map and GPS. So a typical "full" day of driving (from, say, 9:00 to 5:00, with minimal breaks) covers a bit more than 300 miles.

I like to have the top down as much as weather conditions permit. I avoid the Interstates and all multi-lane and major highways as much as possible.

And the result is that such trips are among the most enjoyable experiences of my life. So, yeah, the car works just fine for me as both a high performance sports car and as a grand touring vehicle. I find it as comfortable as most other cars I've driven, at least as long as I'm not driving it over noticeably rough surfaces (which is why 95% of my driving is in the U.S. and not Canada). Comfort is all relative, of course, and compared to a day on any motorcycle, the S is the lap of luxury, so it makes for a very nice "break" from my two-wheeled journeys.