I didn’t want to drive across the country, but alas, I dragged ass on selling my car and still had it the day before I had to leave. This sucks! Plan B, drive the car across and try to sell it for real in California.
So, I kept a little log as I drove across. It’s pretty interesting, here’s a link to the spreadsheet I made to get these fascinating numbers:
miles: 3315, this is from NYC to Arcata CA
gas: 113 gallons
estimated cost of gas: $350
average MPG: 29
total time: 101 hours, or 4 days
average speed 24 hours a day to complete trip: 33MPH
longest day: 6/28/07, 904 miles
average mileage per day: 663, at 80MPH that’s a little over 8 hours
estimaged insects killed: 453,981
glow bugs killed (really cool lookin on windshield): 23
small rodent deaths: 1
birds killed: 0, but some real close calls
tickets: 0 (yesssssss, thank you cruise control)
estimated times gunned by cops: 3
bare asses: 1
little kid provoking trucker to blow horn by pumping the fist: 1
stupid high school caravans: 1
funerals: 0
accidents by side of road: 2
radioactive trucks passed: 2
Google map of approximate journey:
google map
A plane ticket across would’ve been $350. I had to cancel the damn ticket and get a “credit” I have no idea which f’ing airline it’s even with; and come to mention it, I think I had “credit” from a plane flight I canceled a long time ago… I wonder what airline that was with? Hell with it. Thinking of all the hours I was on the road, and all the opportunity that something could’ve gone wrong (nothing did though) it is much much safer and mostly likely much cheaper to take a f’ing airplane!
