So yesterday I made the drive from the Gulf Coast area of Mississippi back to Ohio.
Scenario 1: Traveling with Family
Drive 45 minutes, stop for bathroom
Drive 1 hour 10 minutes, stop for diaper change and snack
Drive 32 minutes, stop for bathroom
Drive 57 minutes, stop for lunch. Lunch takes over an hour and costs $30
Drive 28 minutes.....you guessed it, stop for bathroom.
Drive 1 hour 36 minutes stop for diaper and to look for lost toy that fell under seat
Drive 49 minutes, stop because the batteries in the DVD player died
Drive 1 hour 2 minutes. Stop for bathroom.
Drive 15 minutes, stop for dinner. Spend at least one hour and $50.
Drive 28 minutes....you guessed it, stop for bathroom
Just keep repeating the misery until you stop for the night at a hotel. Spend a good hour hauling crap into the room. Spend $100
Get up in the morning, eat breakfast ($30), spend an hour doing it then finally get on the road around 9am.
Keep repeating the above until you get there.
Total travel time is anywhere between 15 hours and 18 hours spread over two days.
Scenario 2: Traveling Solo
Drive 2.5 hours, stop for gas, bathroom and snacks
Drive 5 hours , stop for gas, bathroom
Drive 5 hours, stop for gas, bathroom
Drive 35 minutes, arrive at home
Total travel time, between 11 and 12 hours total. I left MS at 6:00am Central Time and got home at 6:00pm Eastern time.
I have to make this trip 2 more times solo in the next couple weeks so I'll have a good baseline to make sure this wasn't a fluke trip.
Conclusion: Never travel with the wife and kid. Ever.
Bookmarks