amusing family memory

[cellio]

I was talking with a friend about an impending drive across the country, and this somehow made me think of my own family's cross-country move. I was three at the time, so I don't actually remember it, and anyway, I didn't have the interesting part.

My mother took the kids and perhaps the dog (I'm not sure who got the dog for this) and got onto a plane. They wanted to keep the car, though, so my father and a friend of his drove. The family folklore is that they made the excellent time that they did by simply driving straight through. According to what I was told about this while growing up, the car was pretty much always in motion and the passenger slept as needed.

Except that I just today put a few facts together. My father's vision is worse than mine; he has never been licensed to drive at night, and he's pretty scrupulous about that. They made this trip in November, when nights are longer than days. I strongly suspect that the other guy did not drive 14-hour stretches (I mean, how many people do, especially as part of a longer trip?). They were a couple of (roughly) 25-year-old guys.

Do I really believe that they drove through at the speed limit, rather than taking stops to sleep and gunning it? I may have to call my father on it, out of earshot of my mother. :-)

Comments

[cellio]

*boggle* If that's true, I admire the driver's bladder control! (While wanting to whap him with a clue-by-four, mind. What was he thinking?!)

[rectangularcat]

Never mind the car's extremely huge gas tank(s)... Flammable!

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

>> "Where're you from?", "Utah", "When's the last time you stopped?", "Utah".
> *boggle* If that's true, I admire the driver's bladder control!

I'm sure he meant "stopped for more than dinner/gas/restroom". We get some every year at Pennsic Troll. This year's "winner" was from Oregon, IIRC.