The real trick is comfy car seats.

Trick is very small stops every 2 hours.

Over 30 minutes is too long for me. Not that I cannot sit still. I have no business going anywhere longer than an hour and I haven't for years.
I was foolish enough to drive to Fort Lauderdale from DC in my 30s. Not sure what I was thinking.
Not just driving. Lots of things that take time, I refuse to do as I get older.

I'm 60 and drive to Bar Harbor and S. Fl. without stopping (excepting gas, food, toilet, obviously) with no problem.

A lot of cars have dynamic cruise control so it'll slow down to keep pace with the car in frotn of you. Makes things a lot easir on busy highways for me.

I’m in my 50s and hate road trips now. Could easily drive 12 hours ina day in my 20s . Now anything over 2 hours is exhausting. I agree with OP. It’s age.

I'll happily drive anything less than 12 hours in a day. Put on a book or some good music and sing! If I'm by myself, I'll stop every 5 or 6 hours for a bathroom/refreshment break.

When I have long drives like that, I have to listen to a book online. I have something downloaded from the Libby app, and that keeps me entertained. Otherwise, I find it very difficult and tedious.

I just hate driving generally and I have since my early thirties. I’m only doing long drives now that air travel has become so miserable and unreliable. It’s actually less exhausting to drive ~9 hours or less (with two drivers) than to fly.

I don’t find it tiring but have no interest in long drives.

Anonymous wrote:Say, any drive at or over 3 hours- do you find it exhausting? Today I drove from Raleigh to DC and it took me 4.5 hours, all of this was in crazy, all-the-time-now- traffic. There was no 'easy' stretch.

Anyway I wanted to be done for the day just after the drive.

Is this the beginning of getting old? I'm 56, btw

That is an awful drive. Boring scenery and tons of traffic. A drive like that for a two hours sucks. But there are many drives in America that are much longer than that that I find enjoyable.

Wow...I'm older than you and can still easily do 8-10 a day by myself. But, I think of the car as my safe alone space and love to sing loudly.

When you are in lots of traffic, you tense up. You spend lots of time on higher alert. It is tiring . I hate driving lompnger distances. My in-laws live about 1.5 hours away and if I could helicopter up there I would.

Next time stop for a meal halfway

Say, any drive at or over 3 hours- do you find it exhausting? Today I drove from Raleigh to DC and it took me 4.5 hours, all of this was in crazy, all-the-time-now- traffic. There was no 'easy' stretch.

Anyway I wanted to be done for the day just after the drive.

Is this the beginning of getting old? I'm 56, btw