How Far to Drive Each Day Without Burning Out

There is a number of miles you can drive in a day and still enjoy the next one, and the problem is that most people plan trips that exceed it, turning a vacation into a marathon of windshield and fatigue. Finding your own daily limit, and planning around it, is the difference between a road trip you remember fondly and one you survive rather than enjoy.The comfortable limit for most drivers is around three hundred to four hundred miles a day, which is roughly six to eight hours of actual driving with stops, and the key is that it is actual time behind the wheel, not the map’s optimistic estimate. A four hundred mile day on the interstate is different from the same distance on winding two-lane roads, so the character of the road matters as much as the number, and mountain or backroad driving should drop the