I am moving from east coast to west coast (boston to Seattle) and I am...

[a_nice_guy]

...considering driving.? I am moving and i am considering driving after i read one of the post here. Yahoo says 3000 miles, 45 hours! One post says it take 3 days, I wonder how. I have a 1999 dodge neon car which is good on gas. Please help me, how long can i drive in one day and how about sleep etc? Is it practical? Anyone has any experience? Now i think it is not practical because how can i get good sleep in a car, unless i get a tent with me and camp in between? Please help. I may consider selling the car as it cost me 1100$ to ship and it total worth is 2000$. Lets say i have stuff that i can fit in the car easily.
Thanks for posting the answers. I am more interested in someones real experience who can give me valuable and practical advice. By the way i am alone and it is going to cost me $360 of fuel. If i consider motel, that may cost me extra 150$ which i think will be fun too. Thanks all esp Kitkat.

[Acedrummer5]

do u have kids if not drive if then fly

[the dufferz]

Do the math. 60 Mph avg. 12 hours driving. 720 miles per day. 4 days.
60 Mph avg. 16 hours per day. 960 miles per day. 3 days and some change.
60 mph avg. 24 hours per day. 1440 miles per day. Enjoy you stay in the morgue.

[baron the great]

I drove from New Jersey to Seattle once, took about 4 days, great experiance, something you can always say you did. But gas was $1.00 a gallon then Boy am I old. I say go for it but if you are in a car with that much age on it have a back up plan. You will see signs once you enter the Dakotas that tell you no gas for 40 or 50 miles, you will be suprised at the issolation in the midwest. good luck

[the dufferz]

Baron...

Doing the math. $1.00 a gallon would make that sometime in the late 70's? I remember that the pumps didn't have a third digit so $.99 was the highest they would go, and so for a while they sold gas by the half gallon. It was weird to see the price overnight go from $.99 9/10 per gallon to $.50 4/10 per half gallon.

Don't forget back then, the speed limit was 55 nationwide, thank you Mr. Carter.

Duff

[T.S.]

Originally Posted by the dufferz

Baron...

Doing the math. $1.00 a gallon would make that sometime in the late 70's?

Duff

I worked at a gas station in 1998 and remember changing the pump and sign prices down to $0.84 per gallon once.

[the dufferz]

bet that was not there for long!

[baron the great]

duff all I will say is it was I think, 43 cents a gallon when i started driving and the cross country trip was 1983. I may be a little low on that price, might have been $1.10 a gallon, and yes i remember the problem with the 3 digit issue on the gas pumps.

[the dufferz]

We are indeed from the same era... (stone age per my kids...)

Started driving in the mid 70's, I think gas here was about 60 cents per gal. or so. When I was younger, I remember my dad filling up the VW for $3.00.... ahhh the good old days!

[jabm67]

I can't see how that trip could be safely done in three days.

Long ago (20 years this summer) I moved from Indiana to Seattle with a U-Haul truck towing my car behind it, and that took three long days, made longer by the governor on the truck engine capping my speed at 37 MPH on the long upslopes ascending the mountains. With the route I took that was roughly 800 miles a day, roughly 14 hours from the time I pulled out of the motel lot in the morning to when I pulled into another one in late afternoon. I don't remember what I spent on gas back in 1988.

Now, if you're sending your stuff some other means and you're not driving the vehicle hauling it, you can do better than I did, but I'd think that even under optimum conditions it's a 4-day drive from the East Coast at best.

[PDXnative]

Those are some long days!!! Moving sucks...

[baron the great]

Originally Posted by jabm67

I can't see how that trip could be safely done in three days.

Long ago (20 years this summer) I moved from Indiana to Seattle with a U-Haul truck towing my car behind it, and that took three long days, made longer by the governor on the truck engine capping my speed at 37 MPH on the long upslopes ascending the mountains. With the route I took that was roughly 800 miles a day, roughly 14 hours from the time I pulled out of the motel lot in the morning to when I pulled into another one in late afternoon. I don't remember what I spent on gas back in 1988.

Now, if you're sending your stuff some other means and you're not driving the vehicle hauling it, you can do better than I did, but I'd think that even under optimum conditions it's a 4-day drive from the East Coast at best.

yep, three days, no no, four days if you are driving 6am till say 7pm, remember when you get to the plains, well, lack of smokies if you know what I mean.