I live in Charlottesville, Virginia, exactly 100 road miles south-southwest of Dulles Airport (about a 2-hour drive with normal traffic). Last night while I was driving home, I pulled up at a stoplight next to a Washington Flyer taxi from Dulles. There was a passenger in the rear seat and I glanced over at the meter...it was at $163.00 and still running!

Once when heading to IAD from Herndon (a 5-mile trip) I asked the Washington Flyer taxi driver "what's the farthest you've ever driven a paying passenger," and he told me that on 9/12/01 he took a stranded New Yorker to midtown Manhattan, for around $350 one-way.

I've taken a Town Car from IAD to Charlottesville before for $125, but that was a set price and prearranged pickup from a Charlottesville-based limo company so not exactly a "taxi."

The longest taxi ride I've ever taken was from Times Square to my parents' old house in Connecticut, in the summer of 2000. I had an internship in NYC that summer (a LONG commute for next to nothing in pay, but they reimbursed me for train fare) and had to stay late one night to work on a project. The last train home left at 10:07 p.m., and as it was later than that the office gave me $100 petty cash to take a yellow cab the 64 miles home. In NYC passengers have the right to agree upon a price with the driver if going to a destination outside the city, so I found a driver who would accept $100 and we were on our way. The metered fare at that time probably would have been a bit more than $100, so I got a good deal.

What's the longest taxi ride YOU have taken?