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"Anybody here driven from Miami to Key West? Google says 3 hours, but I've heard it takes a fair bit longer..."

I did the drive straight with my gfs in college. It took us 17 hours.

2/26/2010 10:27:28 AM

@lucy

No kidding. My best friend lived in Florida for years, and 90mph is regular speed on the major highways there. Haha I believe he got a warning ticket for going 90mph once.

He used to ride his Mazda3 just below the 118mph governor pretty much the whole way across Alligator Alley between Naples and Lauderdale / Miami. I believe he only got pulled for that once of many many times...

2/26/2010 10:31:33 AM

^^ I've done the Miami to Key West trip before. It's not bad at all. I would say three hours is about right. On the way down it was at night, but on the way back was in the morning and it was a million times better doing it during the day because the views are awesome.

2/26/2010 10:35:26 AM

^^ Alligator Alley is a great place to speed. It's terribly boring and it kind of scares the hell out of me.

2/26/2010 10:40:05 AM

@lucy

Ya'll went straight from Raleigh to Key West? Please befriend my girlfriend and help her see the light... No, she's a really good sport; I'm all about getting there quickly instead of stopping every half hour for pee and stretch and food breaks, and when we went to NYC in January she never asked to stop once. Wish I could say the same for her sister and my cousin.

2/26/2010 10:40:10 AM

just try to avoid like atlanta or jacksonville areas around rush hour and you will be fine.

we went from raleigh to miami on a bus and it took like 16 hours

2/26/2010 2:07:57 PM

Speaking from much experience, I tell you that there is no avoiding rush hour in Jacksonville.

You could leave RDU at 6PM, midnight, 6AM, noon, whenever and somehow you would still hit Jacksonville at 5PM on the dot and sit on a bridge for 2 hours. It's some serious Twilight Zone shit.

2/26/2010 2:14:35 PM

14 hrs.

[Edited on February 26, 2010 at 2:17 PM. Reason : just don't get there before you can check into a hotel]

2/26/2010 2:17:00 PM

i flew into Albany NY and the drove all the way to Timmins ON last summer
(plane tickets are way way more than a rental car once you cross into Canada)

took me like 15 hours

stopped in Toronto on the way back, had a great time there

2/26/2010 2:18:57 PM

I met a girl from Toronto

she had a coke addiction and once she kicked it, she put on weight

2/26/2010 2:20:20 PM

ive made the trip by car to sobe a few times and i couldnt agree w/ lucy more
leave about 7pm and drive through the night. SC is a long drive and getting through there at 10pm is easier than 10am

2/26/2010 5:14:24 PM

but if you left at 7 at night, wouldn't you get there at 10 am?

2/26/2010 5:18:45 PM

Driving thru SC sucks serious balls

Its all kudzu, trailer parks and farmers markets

2/26/2010 5:20:36 PM

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"but if you left at 7 at night, wouldn't you get there at 10 am?"

yep, then eat some breakfast and meet up with the homies
take a nap on the beach and party that night

better than getting there at 10pm tired as shit and wasting a night

2/26/2010 5:22:06 PM

I've done this drive a dozen or so times and I almost always leave at like 1 or 2am so that you are not spending too much time driving late night

2/26/2010 5:25:00 PM

taking a nap on the beach sucks after a 15 hour car trip


get there when you can check into a hotel

2/26/2010 5:25:08 PM

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"I've found that Florida is the best state to speed through. Honestly, traffic flows MUCH faster, on average. eleusis and I drove to Miami once where we set the cruise control at 90 mph in Ft. Lauderdale and we were getting passed by TONS of traffic. "

we kept trying to set the cruise control to 90, but it wouldn't stay at anything higher than 88mph. I would expect as much from a delorean, but not a WRX.

Getting passed by blue haired women in Cadillacs going 100mph on cruise control makes you question your driving ability.

2/26/2010 5:43:13 PM