Drive from Milwaukee. Crazy?

[FDV]

With airfares getting expensive, we're considering driving from Milwaukee to Orlando. It's no problem for me, I regularly drive 800 miles round trip. I would probably leave on like a Friday evening, and drive straight thru. From those that have done long drives like this, do you think a 10 yr old can handle it?

 

[ScottNBecky]

If you have a DVD player in the car you can do it. We usually drive from Central IL and we have 2 DD's (10 and 8) and they handle it.

 

[Ham Ham]

We've drove from Toronto twice once in Jan of '88 we took the 401 to I-75 Detroit and the shot down I-75 to Florida, did head directly to park but went to Tampa

Last time we drove left Wednesday on a 17:00 arrived at Pop Century at 18:00 the next day. We drove straight through my wife and I took turns riving overnight. Wakening each other up after afew hours drive to switch. Around 03:45 We did to attempt to sleep in a rest area, but with my snoring it kept everybody up.

We had a motel booked for 13:00 in the afternoon in Brunswick GA so we could relax and sleep a bitand then have a four hour drive to WDW the net day.
The girls outvoted so it was back on the road, that's how we wound up driving straight through. Don't think we would consider this opotion again

Here's our route to WDW. QEW,190, 79, 79 US 19, 77, 26, 95, 4
QEW west to Hamilton
Hamilton QEW east to Fort Erie.
Cross Peace Bridge.
I-90 to wards Erie,Pa In Erie I-79 south through PA , West Viginia
UDS 19 heards south. Obey off traffic laws and posted limits in this area, especially in Summersville, WV.
US-19 uintil I-77 South
I-77 though VA,NC, SC
From I-77 south take I-26 east
I-25 East to I-95 South

I-95 to I-4 East follow signs to where you be staying in WDW


It took us driving non stop 26 hours, That includes traffic, meals, pee stops, gas stops. DVD is crucial for a dives on for the kids. They will have to agree on what movies to watch when. Out then 11 and 7 years old got on great.
Avoid a large urban area's during rush hours. Get a CAA/AAA triptik and local state maps

I google mapped the trip from Milwaukee a to Orlando & Toronto to Orland they're both about 1270
also google maps indicates that it's about 19 1/2 hours for both of us. We did it in 26

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=d&hl=e...889,-78.046875&spn=31.148123,59.0625&z=4&om=1

Drive Safe

 

[JonS99]

You just need to make sure you leave home at a time that you will avoid Chicago area traffic...