What was your longest drive to a weird Al concert?

[Caroleg]

My furthest drive was for the OC fairs this summer.



I drove from Seattle to Costa Mesa by way of Vegas, Phoenix and San Diego, a total of 1990 miles on the way down. The drive home was direct and an all nighter of 1188 miles. That's 3178 miles total. On other occasions I'd drive down to the Northern California shows. That's typically a 13 hour one-way drive.



Does Al know how "devoted" we are?



(I have my Touring with Scissors statistics on my web site showing a total of 9419 driving miles and 28267 air miles pre-Orange County.

http://www.nwlink.com/~clgoetz/yankovic/map/index.htm )

[Orthography Enthusiast]

Wow.

Does Al know how "devoted" we are?

Betcha he does, though maybe not the exact mileage.



It would be interesting to play the license plate game in the parking lot of an Al concert sometime (but not during the concert!).



--OE (one concert, 23 miles from home. But I probably drove four miles, round & round the fairground, trying to find parking.)

[weird_el]

There was an article in the OC Register right before Al's concerts there that said there were people from 15 states and Canada, Australia and New Zealand. He knows we travel. It was a 2002 World Tour -- the world comes to Al, though.

[Orthography Enthusiast]

There was an article in the OC Register right before Al's concerts there that said there were people from 15 states and Canada, Australia and New Zealand. He knows we travel. It was a 2002 World Tour -- the world comes to Al, though.

Must have been a nice change after all that mileage he logged during TWS.



I wonder if anybody got a copy of that OC Register article before it aged off their website.

[weird_el]

Yes, you can find the text of the article here:

http://www.davesfunstuff.com/27artocf2002.htm



El -- it's a very good one.

[scottidog]

one concert, 23 miles from home. But I probably drove four miles, round & round the fairground, trying to find parking.

27 miles. That's perfect.

[Alapeleke]

To a concert? 1 hour map time.. 30 minutes mom speed time. minus the trip to mcdonalds.. and we go there 4 hours early teehee





to an Al related function.. (AlconIII) around 9 hours not including the overnight stay in kentucky.

[JKaudio]

If we're counting Alcon... I think I have everyone beat! 1018 miles each direction... yahoo driving directions said about 15.5 hours, but I made it in about 13 (each way). While it is cool for bragging rights, I think I'll save my pennies and fly next time so I'm not so out of it from lack of sleep! What was I thinking?... oh yeah, I was thinking how I couldn't afford to fly, that's right! LOL

[stupidsurgeon27]

If we're counting Alcon... I think I have everyone beat! 1018 miles each direction... yahoo driving directions said about 15.5 hours, but I made it in about 13 (each way). While it is cool for bragging rights, I think I'll save my pennies and fly next time so I'm not so out of it from lack of sleep! What was I thinking?... oh yeah, I was thinking how I couldn't afford to fly, that's right! LOL

Yes, flying is nice. Because of lack of money, I got my own job so I could fly to OC. Or else three days of driving? Aieee. I wouldn't want that.



I miss OC.



Though, 13 hours is darn impressive for AlCon.



-CindyBob

[Shelley]

Well by myself, I drove from Columbus, OH to Rochester, NY, I made it in 6 hours, I think I remember passing through another state on the way <g>. Since I got Al's boxers at that concert, it was SO WORTH IT! I owe a big one to Snails in NY for procuring front row tickets for that one for our group.



Otherwise, hubby and I drove to Bethlehem, PA for the last show of last tour, it was about 8 hours drive time I believe. We ended up going to concerts in 4 different states, I know there's plenty of fans that beat that, but for us homebodys with 3 kids, that's not bad!



-Shelley

ps. and yes, the kids went to almost half of the 12 concerts with us!