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It is a longer round trip than London to Paris and back.
And this weekend, the 914 miles Truro City travel to Gateshead will become the new record for the longest away trip in English football.
The Cornish club won National League South last season, climbing to the fifth tier for the first time in their history.
It means a mammoth 10 to 12-hour journey on a bus on Friday, interspersed with a training session at Championship side Derby County.
"When I signed for Truro I never thought in all honesty I'd be going to Gateshead away," Tinners captain Connor Riley-Lowe told BBC Radio Cornwall.
"It's exciting really. I've been at Truro for 10 years now and we're very, very used to travelling.
"I know you read the stats, but for us it's just more time on the bus - this time it's just a little bit extra longer."
Indeed, Truro are certainly used to travelling.
Their position in the south-west peninsula means even their closest away game - at Yeovil Town - is at least three hours away.
But it means long journeys are something that become a way of life if you want to play for the National League's newest club.
"We should be getting used to it now, but this one is exceptional isn't it?" says manager John Askey.
"Clubs that come down to us, most of them are flying down and staying over on the Friday, so for us to have to do it on the coach is obviously not ideal, but because we have so many long journeys, that's the way we have to do it.
"We just have to get on with it, but obviously with it being such a long journey, the longest it's ever been in English football, it draws attention to it."
For Truro's Canadian chairman Eric Perez, the bus journey to Gateshead is getting on for twice as long as his seven-hour flight from Toronto to London.
But coming from such a vast nation, big away trips are the norm and something he expects.
"When the King comes to Canada on the same day he might find himself in the Northwest Territories, in rural Manitoba and then in Toronto, which is infinitely more distance than we're travelling to Gateshead," Perez tells BBC Sport.
"So if the King can do it, I think we can do it. I'm actually looking forward to it as I'm going to be taking the journey with the players.
"I'm really looking forward to breaking the record with them - a record that will never be broken, I don't think.
"Well, it'll be broken when we play in Newcastle in the league - that's when it'll be broken and that'll be some years when we've achieved some promotions.
"I'm not going to say it's a short journey. It's a ridiculously long journey in context.
"But what that does is galvanise our side even further - everybody spends time together, we're used to travelling together."
Truro's lengthy journey is made all the easier by the fact the team is now fully professional - something that makes the travel much better for former PE teacher Riley-Lowe.
"People didn't realise last year when we were part-time we used to work all day on the Friday, we'd meet the bus in Exeter and we'd travel in the evening and we would not getting to the hotel until 11 or 12 o'clock [at night]," he says.
"This year none of us are working, we're travelling in the day, so as hard as it sounds it's a lot easier - certainly a lot easier than doing a full day at work then travelling."
