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> As for the 8-hour yardstick: with assistance from Google Maps I
> quickly identified multiple western states where a driver can spend 8
> or more hours on the road traveling from an origin near one border of
> the state to a destination at the far border, and never cross any
> state lines(1). The states do not include Alaska or Texas.
>
>
> 1- CA: San Diego to Yreka; WA: Vancouver to Colville; ID: Bonners
> Ferry to Preston; MT: Libby to Broadus
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Nogales south AZ to Page north AZ 454 mi, 7 hrs and 12 min.
Tucson AZ to Cortez CO, 524 mi. 8 hrs and 54 min.
I am about to make a similar trips so I thought I would look it up and share. :)
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