IT goes on and on and on. Just like the M6 to Carlisle.
Notts County are now unbeaten in 13 away league games and if ever there was a chance to reflect on that impressive club record which started in February, it was on the way back to Nottingham from Brunton Park.
Four hours and 200 miles would be time and distance enough, in fact, to recite all 150 years of the Magpies' history, although, actually, maybe not.
Notts will be looking forward though, not back, because, while they will not travel further for an away game than Carlisle this season, they look set to go a long, long way in League One, being in the top-six after 12 games.
Twice before this game, they had scored four goals on the road during their unbeaten run, against Charlton Athletic and Wycombe Wanderers.
They conceded twice at The Valley, however, and three times at Adams Park.
At Carlisle, they won 4-0. It is their biggest win of the season, their biggest in eight months under boss Keith Curle.
Talk about a perfect response to successive league defeats to leaders Tranmere Rovers and Stevenage at Meadow Lane.
While many were expecting changes, Curle played exactly the same 11 players that lost 1-0 to Tranmere in a huge show of faith and was repaid big time.
Talk about ruthlessness too. They had four shots on target and scored with each of them, through Jeff Hughes and captain Neal Bishop in the first half and Francois Zoko and Jamal Campbell-Ryce in the second.
The Magpies' fans did not just celebrate four goals. They sung for their old No.4, Mike Edwards, too.
Having left Notts for Carlisle in the summer, after eight years and 304 games, he played against his old club for the first time. "There's only one Mike Edwards!" was the chant. It was strange seeing him in Carlisle colours.
Such has been the tide of change at Meadow Lane over the summer, Edwards only faced three of his former team-mates – Hughes, Bishop and Alan Judge.
Bishop, who now wears No.4, gave Edwards a clip round the ear before kick-off and then inspired Notts to victory with a powerful display in midfield and scored on 27 minutes.
He scored just five goals in his first three seasons at Meadow Lane, but has already now got three so far this campaign.
He is not just a tough-tackler and a driving force now, Bishop is now a goal threat.
Having scored a long-range wonder goal at MK Dons, his strike against Carlisle was far less spectacular, as he slid into the six-yard box to steer Jordan Stewart's low cross from the left wing past United goalkeeper Mark Gillespie. But it was no less significant because it gave Notts a 2-0 lead.
It was a wonderfully created goal too. Hughes won the ball back with a good tackle and quickly spread it out wide, Stewart drove the ball across the face of goal and Bishop made a superbly-timed surge to score.
Hughes had already netted to give the Magpies a 1-0 lead.
He chose a move to Notts over Carlisle 15 months ago and has since proved a great signing.
He scored the Magpies' first goal in the first game of last season at Brunton Park at the beginning of a phenomenal first season at Meadow Lane in which he scored a career-record 17 goals to be the top scorer and it took him just 11 minutes to score their opener at Carlisle once again.
Judge made it, jinking his way past two players on the left and curling a cross into the box, and Hughes beat Gillespie with a header from six yards to notch his second goal of the season.
Judge was later forced off injured, unfortunately, and he was replaced by Francois Zoko, who scored his fourth goal for Notts against his old club.
The Ivorian forward spent two seasons at Carlisle before rejecting a new deal with them to join the Magpies in the summer, passing Edwards on the M6, and he struck on 54 minutes to make it 3-0, racing onto a flick from Yoann Arquin and into the penalty area and sliding the ball past Gillespie and inside his left-hand post.
As Notts fans went wild, he just lifted his right arm up in the air in a subdued celebration, before being mobbed by his new team-mates.
The Magpies completed the rout just three minutes later.
They had already been denied a penalty in the first half, wrongly, after Gillespie spilled a cross and Hughes nicked it away from him only to be upended by the goalkeeper.
But they were given one on 57 minutes.
Winger Jamal Campbell-Ryce was brought down in the box by Carlisle left-back Chris Chantler and, after picking himself up and dusting himself down, he swept the penalty into the bottom-left corner of the net, sending Gillespie the wrong way.
Already leading 2-0 at half-time, those two early goals at the start of the second half killed off Carlisle.
Referee Stuart Attwell might as well have blown his whistle as soon as Campbell-Ryce's penalty hit the back of the net and let Notts and their fans begin their long treks home early to get home in time for X-Factor.
But he booked the wrong Notts player in injury time at the end of the first half so he could not be relied on to make the right decision. Arquin fouled Chantler near to the halfway line and yet Attwell booked Campbell-Ryce before Curle told him he had made a mistake.
Never before has a yellow card been rescinded so quickly. Unlike Attwell, the Magpies made no mistakes.
They were faultless from the first minute to the last.
"We want five, we want five," their fans chanted.
They didn't get their wish, but they were still deliriously happy with four goals, if less so about the four-hour journey home.
League 1: Bournemouth 2 Leyton Orient 0, Carlisle 0 Notts County 4, Colchester 1 Stevenage 0, Crawley Town 3 Bury 2, Hartlepool 1 Doncaster 1, Portsmouth 2 Crewe 0, Scunthorpe 1 Brentford 1, Sheff Utd 1 Oldham 1, Swindon 2 Coventry 2, Tranmere v Yeovil.
League 2: AFC Wimbledon 1 Cheltenham 2, Barnet 1 Plymouth 4, Bradford 1 York 1, Burton Albion 1 Bristol Rovers 1, Chesterfield 1 Dag & Red 2, Fleetwood Town 0 Wycombe 1, Gillingham 4 Aldershot 0, Northampton 3 Exeter 0, Rochdale 1 Morecambe 2, Rotherham 0 Southend 3, Torquay 3 Accrington Stanley 1.