Saturday: drive 219 miles. Sunday: drive 184 miles. Monday: drive 114 miles.
We’re home!
So what was learned on this trip?
Driving 9,224 miles in the Lazy Daze is a whole lot. (Not including 2,967 miles in the Rav4.)
Being on the road for 110 days is a whole lot.
Spending $3,900 on gas is a whole lot.
The East Coast [...]
Archive for November, 2008
We’re home!! Monday, November 17, 2008
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Friday, November 14, 2008
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We’re both pretty upset by programming changes on Sirius/XM, our satellite radio station. Management got rid of 3 of our 5 favorite shows on Sirius Disorder. In fact, they got rid of the Disorder channel. Their response is that fans of Disorder will enjoy listening to The Loft, but after trying to listen to it, [...]
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
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It was a cold, blustery day in Albuquerque. We performed another marathon 280 miles yesterday. North Texas country is pretty boring, so as I drove I began to count the number of semi’s that were passing us. Each time I divided the number of semi’s divided by the number of miles driven, it was precisely [...]
Saturday, November 8, 2008
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We’re into serious traveling mode now. We’ll basically cross the rest of the country on Interstate 40. We drove through most of Arkansas in one day. Our campground was a nice one, with a bevy of hungry ducks. Once they knew I had bread, they milled around, stepping on my feet, pecking at my fingers [...]
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
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Nashville didn’t work out. The Grand Ol’ Opry is only open Tuesday, Friday and Saturday. We arrived on Sunday, so no go. After turning back the clock on Saturday, we turned it back again on Sunday: Nashville is on Central time.
We had difficulty extricating ourselves from Nashville. We hit two supermarkets before realizing that wine [...]
Saturday, November 1, 2008
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We drove to Charlottesville, Virginia to see Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home. We took a tour of the 21-room house, that sounds large until you realize that 26 people (not including slaves) lived in it much of the time. Some of the furniture and details of the house are original, which is unusual. His library was [...]
