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Posted by: Ben Higgins Sep 9 2011, 09:49 AM
..or not ?
I've got to drive up to a gig this afternoon.. I'm giving myself longer for the journey because it's Friday and Birmingham (where the gig is) is notoriously bad for traffic.
My question is, do you cope well with long journeys or do you hate travelling ?
Posted by: The Uncreator Sep 9 2011, 10:59 AM
Not too long ago I had to make a 10 hour round trip drive in one day. I was driving through some not so familiar places at time so the scenery could be nice, and I also had music blaring nice and loud, so I actually quite enjoyed it. Driving along the highway, listening to my favorite tunes, nice time to myself.
My theory is, If I can listen to music while I do it - I'm set.
Posted by: Ben Higgins Sep 9 2011, 11:05 AM
My theory is, If I can listen to music while I do it - I'm set.
Yeah, the music makes all the difference doesn't it ? The difficult thing for me is I still only have a cd player in my car so I can't change the album unless I stop somewhere !
Posted by: The Uncreator Sep 9 2011, 11:10 AM
Yeah I only use CD's anyway cause I love how it sounds better. My CD player has a little cubby hole though where I can keep about 3 CD's at the ready so I can change em out as I go. On long drive I usually bring long albums with me, Dream Theater, Between The Buried And Me, Opeth, and then a couple random albums.
Posted by: Ben Higgins Sep 9 2011, 11:12 AM
Haha, yes if I know I've got a long drive I'll have an Opeth cd ready too
Posted by: SpaseMoonkey Sep 9 2011, 11:23 AM
I'm not a huge fan of traveling, I live a very short distance from work and I can't stand driving it. Now that I think of it the guitar shops are about 3 times farther and I love those drives. I just load up on some good driving tunes when I have to go long distances for whatever reason.
The only thing that can make or break me going would be the weather, I'm not a fan of driving in a thunderstorm. Also snow I had a few bad experiences, one time I was on a long open road and everyone was creeping along because the road turned to a sheet of ice. Next thing I know half the cars were in the ditch, I was pretty shaken up watching that since I thought I was going to get hit.
Posted by: tonymiro Sep 9 2011, 12:16 PM
Well living in Spain I tend to regard anything less than 2 hours in a car as local and a long drive here for me would be over 5 hours. We've driven, with a few overnight stops, from The NE in England to Plymouth, got the ferry to Santander (N Spain) and then driven down to Cadiz. Not sure how far that is but its over 1000km.
I spent 18 months in the UK when I lived in the NE but my place of work was in Cheshire. I used to get up at 6am in the NE and drive to work on a Monday to be there for 9am. Stay with friends for the week and then drive home on a Friday, starting at @5pm and getting home about 9 (lots of heavy traffic). On quite a few Monday mornings I'd have a meeting in Cardiff or London and so I'd drive there from home instead, usually setting off at about 4am. If it was Cardiff I'd then drive back to the office in Cheshire at the end of the meeting.
When I was in the UK I also regularly had to drive from the NE to Southampton as my wife's family lived there - about 7 hours in a car. I can still remember one trip, just me and my daughter who was 4 at the time. Ten miles after we had set off to Southampton she asked, 'Are we nearly there yet? How long is it going to be?'. She kept that up every five or so minutes. I finally lost it just south of Newbury (about 5 hours), slammed on the breaks and told her to shut up, something I wouldn't normally do. She was so shocked she did shut up - for about 1/2 an hour and then started again. I'd given up the will to live by then though. We got to Southampton at about 10 pm and my daughter was still wide awake. My wife, who had flown down 2 days before, told me she was tired and left me to sort out our daughter and settle her for bed.
Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Sep 9 2011, 12:37 PM
I got used to traveling in between 1 and 4 hours to gigs, so it's not a big deal when going there. The biggest problem is returning in 6 in the morning and carrying gear, but well, tomorrow everything is OK.
Posted by: Ben Higgins Sep 9 2011, 01:20 PM
Totally !!
Posted by: Gitarrero Sep 9 2011, 03:03 PM
When I got Music or audio books, I just love travelling.
To get the new job I have now (by the way, the first week was pretty great, my new colleagues are really nice and are all very interested in the new guy from up north ) I had to attend three job interviews. Since I was still working at my old job at that time, I had to drive 550 km to the interview (took about 6 hours), then I got interviewed for one hour and I drove 6 hours back. I listened to loads of audiobooks at that time 
Posted by: Daniel Realpe Sep 9 2011, 03:34 PM
Yeah, music and driving can be a really great combination for long journey, and you can sing out loud!
Posted by: Sinisa Cekic Sep 9 2011, 10:38 PM
I've traveled so much that I felt sick when should sit in the car! 
Posted by: jstcrsn Sep 10 2011, 01:42 AM
I love driving out of town,
and the smell of a different city early sat.or sunday morning when there is no traffic
my last trip I drove ( with a 10 and 8 ytr. old , my daughters) from beaufort S. Carolina to kansas in a strait shot( half way across the US) --23 and a half hours,the last two hours I cheated and had a cafeine drink
Posted by: Gabriel Leopardi Sep 10 2011, 09:51 AM
I use to be inside the studio or my home for days so when I have to do a journey for a gig or something I really enjoy it... the more far the better for me... 
Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Sep 10 2011, 03:00 PM
Yeah, gigs can experienced like traveling/excursions often
Posted by: Ben Higgins Sep 10 2011, 03:54 PM
Ouch !! Thant's what you call a long journey !!
Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Sep 10 2011, 08:09 PM
Indeed, 23 hours is more like an adventure man
Posted by: Fran Sep 11 2011, 12:50 PM
I like travelling, but I hate driving long distances alone!
Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Sep 13 2011, 11:21 AM
I love traveling with the band but the thing is, if we get to ride a train for 12 hrs, we turn into mad monkeys and scare people off, so as long as it's under 7-8 hrs, it's ok I guess
Posted by: Ben Higgins Sep 13 2011, 12:54 PM
but the thing is, if we get to ride a train for 12 hrs, we turn into mad monkeys and scare people off, so as long as it's under 7-8 hrs, it's ok I guess Yeah, trains do weird things to you.. for some reason I really enjoyed using the London Underground when the band went to London. Although not so sure i'd like it at night..
Posted by: Bogdan Radovic Sep 13 2011, 02:35 PM
I can tolerate about 6 hours in one direction by bus. I love traveling and I had to chance to travel to a lot of gigs around the country. Even though it's basically 4-8 hours on the road in one day its awesome and I got used to it. I clearly remember hating to travel by bus before that
For anything longer then 6 hours, I prefer airplane or train.
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