article_snippet: Jennifer Riehl, 32, a research scientist at Michigan Technological University, and her husband, 31, an engineering instructor at the institution, typically drove about 50,000 miles a year.
article_snippet: They think a 15,000-mile trip from New Jersey to Alaska to They home on Michigan's Upper Peninsula over 38 days in the summer of 2012 may have broken a record for the long distance speed in a car.
article_snippet: The university employees don't go out looking for particular adventures, and just try to enjoy meeting people along the way.
article_snippet: the couple don't play children's car games and occasionally listen to XM radio, but spend most of the couple time in the car catching up on each other's lives. '
article_snippet: The couple. who both work at Michigan Technological University, have been going to different counties together since 2006 and drive about 50,000 miles a year .
highlights_snippet: Pair drives about 50,000 miles a year in green 1999 Dodge Intrepid .
  
highlights_snippet: Couples' parents use 16-hour days in the car to catch up on each other's lives .
  