hello forum, i am not a film maker and have no knowledge of making films in any way. I came here to see if there is any interest anywhere to document a very long distance drive that i already completed and am looking to do again to set/break the world record. My name is John Fourtounis, ive been a NYC cab driver for the last 7 years and im a 27 year old native born New Yorker. I recently completed a 44 hr 46 min solo nonstop Cannonball Run drive from NYC to LA. I only stopped for gas, drive thru food and coffee. I did not stop to sleep or rest at all in any way. It was insane. I left NYC(Elmhurst,Queens) at 10:39 am on Sat Jan 10 and got to Santa Monica pier in LA at 7:25 am NYC time on Mon Jan 12. I was hoping to finish it in under 40 hours using my 2004 Honda Civic but it took much longer with a total of 3181 driven miles for 2 reasons. The 1st reason is that it was snowing along I70 in Penn and Ohio on saturday so instead i took the Jersey tpke-I95 down to Baltimore to get below the snowline and then took I70-I68-I79-I64 through WV-Kentucky-Indiana-Illinois to get to St Louis where i got onto I70 for the traditional fastest and shortest route to LA. That was an extra 1.5 hours i had to drive because those highways are not a straight shot to St Louis like I78-I76-I70 is out of NYC. In New Mexico i lost about 3 hours after i gave up just east of Gallup and started driving back. At that point i was on my 35th hour and I saw that i had about 8-10 hrs to go and i panicked and thought that it would end up killing me. I just felt really bizarre at that time. I was kind of having a "life flashing before youre eyes" moment where i thought about the good and bad times and then thought about my own funeral. So i started driving back on I40 towards Albuquerque and then took I25 south to find a hotel to sleep in. I was planning to go through Dallas on my way back instead of taking the same route back home. As i was driving south on I25 i really started regretting giving up and after some food and coffee I decided to continue on but instead of heading back towards I40 i took Rt 60 towards Phoenix. I then got onto I10 towards LA and finished at the pier. I was in such a state of shock and joy that i did it that i didnt even sleep for 2 hours after getting to the Comfort Inn on Santa Monica Blvd. If i had started on the traditional route out of NYC and didnt give up i could have easily gotten to LA in 39 hours but im sort of happy that it took longer since now i know how much driving i can take safely without sleep. So now i dont know what to do with this and thats why im posting here. Im applying to the Guiness World Record book to somehow make this offficial. Of course i would have to do it again and make it official by having it documented and recorded. If there is a film maker here that would be interested in documenting this please contact me. Guiness though will probably not approve such a drive because when i applied online they mentioned they do not accept records based on long distance drives on public roads that try to beat some time record or speed record. But now that i know i can do a 45 hour drive i can actually do the entire drive and stick to speed limits if there are any legal concerns. It helps that the limit in states out west is 75 mph. The "record" would then be "longest nonstop solo drive coast to coast" and would then not be considered an illegal street race. If someone would be with me in the car while im doing this they would basically need to trust me completely that im safe and know what im doing. The risk of falling asleep at the wheel will be negated by having the film maker act as observer. You can have 2 people in the car watching me. Again, i already did this safely alone with no one watching me and i never got close to falling asleep. No accidents or tickets either. If no one wants to be in the car with me, to document it im thinking some sort of GPS tracking device can be placed in the car and a video camera can be pointed towards the drivers seat so its seen that only i am driving at all times. You can even put an observer in the car with me to make sure i dont fall asleep if that is a legal concern for you. Another camera can be placed facing the road so it can be seen where im going. That camera could be usefull in some kind of time lapse movie of the entire drive where you can speed up throughout the entire 45 hours and shorten it to something like 5 mintues. Also some people must see me leave NYC at the start time and others must see me arrive at the pier.
I know all of this must seem insane but i assure you im a perfectly sane person. I just really love driving and i love challenges like this. I honestly dont know if there is any interest in recording this. A friend if mine told me to consider recording it. My main concern has always been not to hurt anyone in this type of drive and i never have. Never even hit anyone in my years as a NYC cabby. I started that job as the youngest guy on the street at 20 and i was the safest for 7 years. thanks for reading this if you got this far.

these are a few of my other driving accomplishments:
- 36 hr 28 min nonstop drive from NYC to Chicago-Milwaukee-Mackinac Bridge-Detroit-Toledo-Pittsburgh-NYC.
- completed a roundtrip drive sort of nonstop with a friend from NYC to San Francisco. We did each way nonstop in about 44 hours. We only slept 7 hours in SF before doing the drive back nonstop again.
- once did a 20 hour NYC cab driving shift which was my longest shift ever.