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Dallas - Austin is a quick trip, and usually a fun one with someone (either DH or my BFF) My other best friend lives in Austin, so we are usually going to visit her and do Austin "stuff".

Every year my family would drive the 10 hour car trip to my grandmother's beach house. It was all 7 of us in a minivan, making the round trip two or more times a year, for over 20 years. Then there was Thanksgiving vacation every other year, which was a 7-9 hour car ride.

By comparison, driving around Ireland with my husband for three weeks was a carefree lark with the leprechauns. I'm used to long car trips now, but I'm tired of them! My ideal would be a chauffeured drive to the airport.

Max is 3 hours... but I think I could do a LONG road trip down the Pacific Coastline!

Hahaha I read the title and thought "the time it takes to get to the airport to go on vacation!"

I think I could only handle 3-4 hours, max. I get antsy pretty quickly and DH is the same!

When I lived up north, it was so much easier to road trip! In New England, you can get to so many places within a few hours. From Maryland, we could hit multiple different destinations in just an hour or two! From NC? Whomp Whomp. I guess it would be to the mountains or beach. Even the mountains are far, though from here!

@Shimmer: Darn! You totally took my answer about the airport.

I really enjoy roadtrips with my husband. He doesn't get cranky about needing to stop every so often and he does all the driving. We always have a great time because it forces us to be together and not be overly distracted so we have good conversations. We never laugh more than when we're driving together. This makes me excited for our 3.5 hour trip we're going on this weekend.

I don't mind long roadtrips if the destination is good. We live in Toronto and years ago, we drove 17 hours to Prince Edward Island (stopped for a night in Quebec City, where he proposed!). It was soooo much fun! We stayed in PEI for 5 days and drove all around the province...Went further to New Brunswick and made the trek back home. I LOVED it!

But now that we have LO, the max I'll go is 3 hours away.

I think I could do a pretty lengthy road trip. When I was younger, my dad took our family from OKC to Chicago for a work conference, but at the conclusion we decided go to Lansing, MI to visit family since it was "close". Once we were in Lansing, Toronto was only a few hours away to so we drove there. Niagara Falls wasn't far off from Toronto so we went there. You get the trend, we ended up going to NY, PA, NJ, DE, MD, VA, TN, MO, AR, then back home. It was THE best road trip ever!!

Now hubby and I took a road trip to CO back in college for a ski trip then decided to drive across 3 states just to eat at Food Network's #1 BBQ joint. Thank goodness gas was cheap back then.

DH and I haven't been on a road trip since we were dating! That was a 4-5 hour drive to the beach to go camping and we failed miserably. We both got burned SO badly that we didn't even stay the night and we drove inland to find a hotel. FAIL.

This summer, we are driving 18 hrs to Vail, CO for a week! I'm so effing excited! Summer in TX is so unbearable and I can't wait to get out of the heat. We are going to be staying in a condo with my bro, sis in law and my nieces! It's going to be so much fun! I'm totally not looking forward to the 18 hr drive though. We'll see how that goes!