(CNN) -- Hailing a taxi in New York City is hard enough, what with fighting off other would-be passengers and getting the attention of a swerving, speeding cabbie. Getting the taxi to drive you from New York to Los Angeles? Fugghetaboutit. At least that's what the father of John Belitsky, a former taxi driver himself, said when he heard about his son's plan to pay a cab driver $5,000 to bring him and his friend Dan Wuebben from the East Coast to the West Coast in one trip. Six days and 3,000 miles later, Belitsky put an exclamation point on the journey with an unadorned post on his Twitter page: DONE.
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Two friends decide to take a taxi from New York City to Los Angeles
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They persuade a cabbie to take the 3,000-mile trip for $5,000
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In Omaha, the exhausted driver threatens to go home
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Six days after they started, the three arrive in California
"At the moment, the running concept is that we're going to take it to some movie people when we get there and see what happens," he said to a camera being held by @placeholder.