April 17, 2002
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What is the longest journey you've ever been on?

Life, of course.

Firelady, 24
Dallas
, TX   USA

Boston to Khazakstan.

Felicia, 36
Lowell
, MA   USA

Physically? Flying from Colorado to London. Temporally? Birth to Death, like everyone else.

Jill, 61
Saylorsburg
, PA  USA

The mega-journey is my life.  A more mundane journey... I was in Europe for 8 weeks.

Laura, 37
Lowell
, MA   USA

A couple trips from Lowell to Orlando as a kid.

Alias Irrelevante

Three weeks traveling in France and Spain. Not enough time and I'd go back to Spain in a minute!

Tracy, 24
Ocean City
, NJ  USA

The furthest I've driven was from Fort Lauderdale to Seattle. The longest flight was from New York to Switzerland. The longest in duration was a six-week trip through England and Scotland.

Jane, 62
West Linn
, OR   USA

Right now, I'm on the longest journey of my life. I'm raising a child.

Maggie, 22
Sandwich
, IL   USA

longest actual journey was to america, when I moved there for year when I was 12. We got a lift down to southampton airport (about 15 minutes away), and had ride in a little plane over to ampstredam airport, and then we went in a big plane accross to JFK. I'd never been in a plane before, it was very exciting!

The longest car/bus journey I've been on was to italy (36 hours!!!), and the furthest I've driven myself is to Whitby, a measely 6 hours

Alice, 21
Winchester  UK

My journy through life in search of happiness. It took me 29 years, but I finally found it. In a literal sense, I used to travel for my job and drove from Kansas City, up through Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, through the Upper Peninsula around to Wisconsin, back down through Chicago over through Iowa to Omaha, Neb. and back down to KC. That was a long and winding 3 1/2 week trip.

Doug2, 29
Overland Park
, KS  USA

Longest vacation journey was from Texas up to see Old Faithful, then home through different states, seeing eleven states. This was with three kids and the youngest was only nine months old. Longest trip was moving from the Army base in GA to TX with a one year old baby and in January snow.

Laney
TX USA

Well, good grief, aren't we leaving a lot of room for interpretation...which is good, the question totally reeks of awesomeness...

I would have to say life...which is both a physical and mental journey...although, unfortunately, I have been stuck in one place in my journal for the past 4 years (doing brain dead work)...I am hoping to branch out in my journey through life to Alaska...

so far, this journey has not turned out the way it was supposed to...when I graduated, I did not expect to be doing the same brain dead work, in the same brain dead job, in the same area, forever...hopefully, to paraphrasea U2 song, I will find what I am looking for...because it damn sure aint the file room...

Frodo
age unknown, parts unknown

Left New York City (Staten Island) on March 20, 1980 and arrived in Las Vegas, NV six days later after much driving and stopping along the way. Great trip.

Fisch, 46
Preston
, CT   USA

Are we talking physically or philosophically? I'll assume physically. . .The flight to Ireland and back was pretty long and fairly cramped. My trip to Chicago to see Bon Jovi was much less comfortable, though shorter (I was in the backseat of a Sunfire with various litter and CDs listening to music I didn't like and unable to catch the conversation in front of me). I was really sick on the way back from Kansas once. The two-or-three-day trip to parts of Colorado is the longest, I'm sure, but the trip to Ireland seemed a lot longer. For that matter, so did my flight back from my trip to New York, since we were stuck on the New York runway for hours waiting for Chicago to let us take off.

Karen, 22
Ames
, IA   USA

I'm not sure if this means the longest time we have traveled or the longest time we have stayed somewhere on vacation but I'll take it as the former. The longest trip I ever had was when I flew to Germany to be with my husband who at the time was stationed over there.

Reba, 50+
Silver Spring
, MD  USA

I went to italy for 9 days and mexico for about the same. I guess that would have to be it.

Talia, 24
Wilton
, CT    USA

Besides living LIfe? It would be when I drove by car from New Jersey to Americus, Georgia to visit my sister. I also had my two sons with me who were 9 and 11 at the time. It was quite a trip.

Janet, 44
E. Brunswick
, NJ   USA

I once took a train from Athens, Greece to Basel, Switzerland via Macedonia, Yogoslovia, and the other countries along that route. If I'm right it was over 40 hours on a train that was almost completely empty.

Ryan, 28
Riedlingen  GERMANY

Strictly speaking, I was in Albuquerque for three months once away from my father. Figuratively speaking, high school has been a long, hard, wonderful journey of four years...

Johanna, 18
OK  USA

Aside from the journey that is life - which I really started around age 16, I think - the longest trip I've taken was the three weeks I spent touring Western and Central Turkey. It was amazing.

etoile, 21
Washington
, DC  USA

I guess I could get all crazy and say that life is the longest journey, but I won't do that. Instead I'll cite the time I was in a car for a day and a half en route to sunny Florida.

Keri-Jade, 21
Brampton, Ontario  CANADA

it started on january 7, 1980 and I hope it doesn't end for a long, long time.

maggie, 22
Sandwich
, IL   USA

My life.

Shayna, 28
Somerville
, MA  USA

20 years of life.

Eric, 20
Beverly Hills
, CA  USA

My recent trip to get to San Juan to board a cruise ship. We left at 4:00 am in the morning. had our flight cancelled cause of someone breaching security at Atlanta then had to spend the day trying to get alternate flights. We finally arrived in San Juan at 9pm that night. It should have been a 3-4 hour flight.

Janet, 44
E. Brunswick
, NJ  USA

One summer when I was younger I didnt want to return home from my uncle's house in delaware because of family problems, so I stayed there and camped out on the lawn for a month and a half.

Em, 16
PA  USA

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