It is a fair distance indeed.
The little sports car in my avatar used to live in Concord, Mass.
In 2007 we bought it from the builder, he picked us up at the airport, brought us back to his house and fed us lunch, and the wife and I started it up and drove it all the way back up here to Alaska!
We logged about 6000 miles by the time we had visited some of our friends in the lower 48 and arrived back at home.
Still one of the best trips of my life.
Thanks again for the help Jim, I'm sure I'll be picking your brain with TF questions in the future and probably buying a few more tools.