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    Default Driving from Atlanta to California. (Seal beach, Orange County)

    Any place i should stop by, watch out for, how long it will roughly take?
    (heard many resposes with this. anywehre from 36hrs to 5days)

    I will be driving by my self and thinking of driving at least 8hrs a day.

    This will be my first time driving more than 300 miles..lol. The farthest i've driven is to Florida for vacation.

    I will be living there very soon, thanks to my new job offer. I want to save money by driving there, which i calculated gas to be around 200-250$ with my honda fit. (35mpg-40mpg with 4$ gas price)

    I just did a alignment on my car yesterday, and will change the air filter (30,000miles on them already) / oil change today.

    thanks. and peace out ATL .
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    You picked a great car to do it in. Have fun and be safe.

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    good drive and good luck. I will prolly never do that though.

    Friend did that once, took him 5 days but he stopped over couple places on the way.

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    If you're only driving 8 hours a day and stopping every night as well as sight seeing, it'll take you about 5 days lol That's how long it took us when we moved from Sacramento to GA. It's a blast though and a great experience (something I think everyone needs to do at least once in their life).

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    Took me 14 hrs to get from here to dallas texas for reference lol.

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    should take you about 3 days. which way you taking? i took 10 all the way(back) shit sucked. in tx the had a whole highway blocked, checking for immigrants. but i would love to travel across the country in a fit! seems awsome.
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    32 hours driving straight thru. Im going to do the drive in july also. It takes me 32 hours from Winder GA to San Diego. I drive 14 hours a day


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    thanks everyone for the responses.
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    My g/f got a job offer out there in Los Angeles, and if she decides to take it, we'll be moving sometime this summer. Not looking forward to driving cross country!

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    Last June my cousin and I drove from Escondido, Ca. (30 mi south of San Diego) to Chattanooga, Tn. in 36 hours. Now this was non-stop, other than gas/food.

    We drove North to the 40 and went straight across....nothing really worth stopping and seeing, we were just a few miles from area 51 and saw a tornado cross the interstate in Amarillo, Tx I think...blew over a box truck....but other than that nothing i saw that would be worth driving that far to see
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