These Are The Things You Want To Cross Off Your Automotive Bucket Lists

Mine is actually fairly simple and probably boring compared to the others here: drive 1000 miles in one day.

I’ve always been the driver on road trips, and the closest I ever came was 991 way back when I was 19 (now 49) driving from the west side of Raleigh, NC to south LA. I’ve had a couple 800- and 900-miles trips in the past few years, but I’m getting the feeling the 1000-mile drive may have to be a solo drive and I’m cool with that.

I was, entirely coincidentally, looking up all the possible Iron Butt certifications the other day — the list you get on when you ride 1,000 miles in a day on a motorcycle. It came out to 13.3 hours at 75 mph, which opens up the possibility of doing a noon-9pm run followed by some sleep and a 7:30-noon leg the following day. Perhaps I’ll add that to my own list.

Submitted by: Ours Blanc