I usually drive from Fife to near Limoges in France once or twice a year.
It’s almost a thousand miles, and maybe 15 hours driving. Leaving Fife after the evening rush hour and heading south into the night, the roads are quieter. By the time we reach the ferry from Dover there is seldom anything else other than late night ferry traffic.
Driving in France is always a pleasure. Roads good, drivers considerate, lane discipline great too.
I’ve done a couple of long road trips in the States too.
My most memorable road trips were in a beat up old Mini pick up, with half a dozen bikes in the back to Glen Coe or Aboyne on Deeside. With barely enough money for fuel, with no assurance that the car would make it there, let alone back. Happy days. It was never the same when I got my first Caddy.