Unlike a similar distances across the great plains from my own observations these southern to midwestern US & to Canada drives can easily accommodate as many stops as you wish to have along your journey, day & night....
Fuel is always available, cell phones always work 24h/7d over these midwestern US & Canadian drives.....
And a 10-12 hour drive is not a problem if that is as far as you have to go.....
It seems that some making argument here have no comprehension of the empty western US that many of us must cross with regularity!
FACT!~ In much of the west there are No airports, hours are required of driving with no services of any type to get fuel or food at night, cell phones do not work with city plans,
(You need to know that cell phones do not work out here unless you can find a roaming signal! On a city plan every minute is $$$ when there is a roaming signal....
And there are many miles with no cell signal what-so-ever available even in roaming....
Many carries loose signal on their network at the edge of the metro areas, so for the next 8-10 hours most of time your phone will not work!)
there are only long hundred's of miles of rural ribbons of empty two lane highways....
Western US region drives across the plains can sometimes go on for hundreds of miles at night where there is not a place open to fuel up at along highways that cross southern or central CO into Kansas or Nebraska.
Consider that Even if you start early in the day you will end up driving at night while all services are closed during some of it....
And Wyoming, Nebraska, Montana, & Utah is even worse, after ~10pm in summer, 8-9 pm in winter while crossing some of it's big empties off of the interstates.....
Two lane highways are today across the region posted @ 65-75, pretty much as fast as you feel safe after midnight once normal routine patrols end for the day .....
So if you crash, breakdown or run our of fuel you are going to be there on the side of the road likely for a while before someone finds you since traffic is light and police are not routinely out on these roads after 10-11 pm until 5-6 am at the earliest(*unless they are out on a call or during a weather emergency)....
In Colorado US 34, 36 & 50 along with I-25 south of Pueblo, I-70 & I-76 are all pretty much after ~11pm unpatrolled until ~5-6 am when patrols begin again in the morning, so running out of fuel here is also a really bad idea outside of the summer heavier travel months when traffic is less sparse overnight....
Take into account that nothing is open after ~10pm summer/8-9pm winter, cell phones do not work across most of the rural region's empty miles.... so at night there is no fuel to get at any price, no cell service(they do not work even on roam), or no bathrooms....
I believe anyone who has not been here really does not get or comprehend what this big empty is like to cross!
There are a very few compost toilets every couple of hundred miles run by the state so for miles & hours places to stop are non-existent. More than a few times on one of those US highways the only bathroom was in the weeds along the side of the road where the rattle snakes live....
While a drive across the midwest is long in miles, taking hours of fairly high speed travel to make in a one day time period, the big differences are that stops are plentiful along the way....
Compare that to travel across the west off of the interstate is really like driving on another planet.....
And I am not saying midwest drives are not a long and hard to do drives. The drives are, but for the entire trips across anywhere in the midwest there simply are not any real big empties(no services, no cell phones, ect....) like there are out west...
Driving for hours on end across the west you will not see another vehicle for most of night from any direction for most of night...
I have on a trip not seen another person or vehicle for ~6 hours at a time from 10pm to 4am.....
Compare that to a drive across the east or the full of cities & people midwest and even in these areas middle of the night traffic is flowing fairly regularly around for the entire trip....
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Also consider the fact that a fill to brim tankof fuel at the beginning of the drive can save $$$'s(in the middle of nowhere fuel/gas can/does usually cost at a minimum $0.30-0.50 or more per gal)...
These distances cannot be crossed in a single day without some of drive being at night when everything is closed, no fuel at any price to be got...
And the fact that across many miles at night there is no fuel to be got at any price....you run out you are sleeping in your vehicle!
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Believe me, I had seen pictures of this region before I came here, but I have to say I had no comprehension of the place until I crossed.....
I literally had no idea that a place like this, a place this big that takes this long to get across, a place with so few people where you can see so far without obstruction existed anywhere!
I do not believe anyone who has never been here can really comprehend how empty these areas are, how few services are available at night, the fact that cell phones do not work across most of these empty miles......
There is a big difference between traveling ~600-700 miles for pleasure in the east & midwest....
Compared to going 600-1,000-1,600 miles for work or for business reasons with very limited time to get there & back, along with very limited time to do what needs to be done while you are there...these trips really do not compare in any way other than actual miles traveled....
Consider how far do you really need to go, how long you have to make the trip & how long you have for your visit, when you must be home again....remember that once you leave town you cell phone will not work for most of drive....
Now consider making a trip if you have a limited time to make the trip, limited time to do what you need to do, and you must be back home at a certain day?
Turning one of these long drives into a leisurely drive with stops every hour or so can/will turn that one day drive each way into a week of travel there & back! That is great if you do this once a year or once every 10 years.....
BUT, How many here have a free week to throw away to get where you need to go & back every few months, with the added costs that will be added from a week in a motel/hotel..????..