Anonymous wrote:Drive. You can do it in one day easy.

I have done the round trip in a long day. It isn't a big deal.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I would drive. Get an oil change and have fluids topped off, tires inflated correctly-you should be fine. I have 120k miles on my 2017 already (long commute) and I take road trips in my car-I've never once had any mechanial problem. I do maintain my car well.

Op here, the car is dealer-maintained with zero issues.

140,000 miles is not that much for a modern car that has been well maintained.
I have gotten 200-270,000 out of my last couple cars.

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Anonymous wrote:*From* Detroit area, I've casually driven the following in a day (several of these destinations many times):

DC/Baltimore
NYC
Sugarbush or Stowe, VT
Lake Placid, NY
Montreal
Atlanta

Boston/Maine takes a day and half
Colorado/Wyoming takes two days (day and half for Denver -- drive to Nebraska-ish one day, half the next day to Denver in time for a leisurely dinner (time zones work in your favor westbound), overnight in Denver to acclimate to altitude, then up to the mountains the next day)

So get used to the driving.

Also, I'm going to tell you something that may shock you and your friends and relations: Detroit and DC are *in the same time zone*. We are not "an hour behind" here.

This is such a Detroit post, I love it. Detroiters love to sit around and one up each other on how fast they drove to a faraway destination like the UP. "I got up to the bridge in 4 hours." "No I got there in 3.5 hours" "Makinac Island is a DAY TRIP (and so is Traverse City if you believe in yourself enough...)" etc etc

One nice thing you will find about Detroit is there is essentially no traffic compared to DC. yes to rush hour but it only lasts about an hour each morning/evening. Wide open flat roads, super easy to drive because it's all a grid. Parking is sooooo easy, you will never have to parallel park again if you don't want to. It is impossible to get lost (just drive till you find a highway or main road). terrible road conditions and people can be weird about letting you merge onto the highway, but you get used to it.

PP.

LOL. I've lived in Michigan for roughly 26 years and am still not considered "from here." (Lived in DMV for six years prior to Michigan.)

Never done a day trip that far north. (Been to Mackinac Island only once, and frankly consider it a bit second rate -- like many other Michigan destinations.) Never been to the UP. I've done Chicago as a day trip. My wife has done a day trip to Chicago to drop off friends flying out of O'Hare (long story).

The highway speeds still scare me. I'm the guy doing 75-80 max in the slow lane, while the locals whiz by like I'm painted on a rock, as the saying goes. I've been passed many times by motorcycles on I-696 doing at least 110 (while I was doing 80ish).

Regarding the letting you merge onto the highway. I'd flip that and say that drivers here have a distorted sense of responsibility when merging onto highways -- they seem to believe that if they're on a ramp then those on the highway have an obligation to make way for them, regardless of whether it's safe to do so. I do bust out my mad parallel parking skillz from time to time. Drivers here are too scared to get close to the parked cars to parellel park properly -- they come in at some crazy angle then have to go back and forth a dozen times.

Local charms.

Anonymous wrote:*From* Detroit area, I've casually driven the following in a day (several of these destinations many times):

DC/Baltimore
NYC
Sugarbush or Stowe, VT
Lake Placid, NY
Montreal
Atlanta

Boston/Maine takes a day and half
Colorado/Wyoming takes two days (day and half for Denver -- drive to Nebraska-ish one day, half the next day to Denver in time for a leisurely dinner (time zones work in your favor westbound), overnight in Denver to acclimate to altitude, then up to the mountains the next day)

So get used to the driving.

Also, I'm going to tell you something that may shock you and your friends and relations: Detroit and DC are *in the same time zone*. We are not "an hour behind" here.

This is such a Detroit post, I love it. Detroiters love to sit around and one up each other on how fast they drove to a faraway destination like the UP. "I got up to the bridge in 4 hours." "No I got there in 3.5 hours" "Makinac Island is a DAY TRIP (and so is Traverse City if you believe in yourself enough...)" etc etc

One nice thing you will find about Detroit is there is essentially no traffic compared to DC. yes to rush hour but it only lasts about an hour each morning/evening. Wide open flat roads, super easy to drive because it's all a grid. Parking is sooooo easy, you will never have to parallel park again if you don't want to. It is impossible to get lost (just drive till you find a highway or main road). terrible road conditions and people can be weird about letting you merge onto the highway, but you get used to it.

Anonymous wrote: I would drive. Get an oil change and have fluids topped off, tires inflated correctly-you should be fine. I have 120k miles on my 2017 already (long commute) and I take road trips in my car-I've never once had any mechanial problem. I do maintain my car well.

Op here, the car is dealer-maintained with zero issues.

lucky you moving to Detroit! It is so nice there and close to nature.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:*From* Detroit area, I've casually driven the following in a day (several of these destinations many times):

DC/Baltimore
NYC
Sugarbush or Stowe, VT
Lake Placid, NY
Montreal
Atlanta

Boston/Maine takes a day and half
Colorado/Wyoming takes two days (day and half for Denver -- drive to Nebraska-ish one day, half the next day to Denver in time for a leisurely dinner (time zones work in your favor westbound), overnight in Denver to acclimate to altitude, then up to the mountains the next day)

So get used to the driving.

Also, I'm going to tell you something that may shock you and your friends and relations: Detroit and DC are *in the same time zone*. We are not "an hour behind" here.

Everyone who has ever flown to/from/through DTW has to know that! Every 20 minutes announcement "Detroit, Michigan is in the Eastern Time Zone"

In multiple languages! The announcements have always been in both English and Japanese, if I recall (like the signage). I *swear* I've heard Chinese too, but I haven't been recently.

And to further shock: the Detroit People Mover has signage in both English and Arabic.

Anonymous wrote:*From* Detroit area, I've casually driven the following in a day (several of these destinations many times):

DC/Baltimore
NYC
Sugarbush or Stowe, VT
Lake Placid, NY
Montreal
Atlanta

Boston/Maine takes a day and half
Colorado/Wyoming takes two days (day and half for Denver -- drive to Nebraska-ish one day, half the next day to Denver in time for a leisurely dinner (time zones work in your favor westbound), overnight in Denver to acclimate to altitude, then up to the mountains the next day)

So get used to the driving.

Also, I'm going to tell you something that may shock you and your friends and relations: Detroit and DC are *in the same time zone*. We are not "an hour behind" here.

Everyone who has ever flown to/from/through DTW has to know that! Every 20 minutes announcement "Detroit, Michigan is in the Eastern Time Zone"

*From* Detroit area, I've casually driven the following in a day (several of these destinations many times):

DC/Baltimore
NYC
Sugarbush or Stowe, VT
Lake Placid, NY
Montreal
Atlanta

Boston/Maine takes a day and half
Colorado/Wyoming takes two days (day and half for Denver -- drive to Nebraska-ish one day, half the next day to Denver in time for a leisurely dinner (time zones work in your favor westbound), overnight in Denver to acclimate to altitude, then up to the mountains the next day)

So get used to the driving.

Also, I'm going to tell you something that may shock you and your friends and relations: Detroit and DC are *in the same time zone*. We are not "an hour behind" here.