**Took us 4 days. It would take 4 weeks to do that with EVs.**
4 days! You must have mixed in some sightseeing.
The wife and I moved from northwest IL to South Central TN. Three round trips (2 vehicles down, one back, each time). 565 miles one way. One day down, one day back. Two trips was with the 4×4 pulling a 16’ 5th wheel livestock trailer. One of those loads was just under the 16,000 lbs weight that is the IL DOT chicken coop threshold.
I’m a truck driver, so driving with few breaks is natural. My wife likes to get to the destination a quickly as possible.
Next year we are going to visit her brother near Redding, CA. We’ll probably team drive the suv in 2 days going out, but sightsee some coming back. We both have had our fill of the airports, so If we are going anywhere in the 48, it will be by road.
We had two kids and a dog with us but the biggest issue was the 1 ton Chevy was a 1973 that had sat for 9 years when I got it and the box truck was a mid 80s that had sat for 4 years when I got it. In other words POS vehicles that cost $1000 between the two of them. We used CB’s to communicate and my handle ended up being Mr Chugs because the truck I was driving would chug up the hills and I’d end up dropping down to 2nd gear on some and doing 20-30mph by the to of the hill.(that and I like beer)
If I’d have gone through a weigh station, they wouldn’t have let me drive out of there. We walked across tool boxes to get to the bed in the back. 35 foot 5th wheel and you couldn’t see the floor due to all the stuff, mostly tools.
I made sure brakes and steering were good but the fuel tanks were both rusty inside. I had 3 carbs and at some point in the day, I’d swap one truck’s carb, usually the Chevy and every night, I’d clean up a carb to have for tomorrow’s needed swap.
I know a guy that lives near Redding
He loves it there.
Likes to hunt, and he was recently telling me about the the illegal pot farms. Accidentally wander into one their grows, and you won’t come out.