[Homestead] travelling for homemade cherry pie
Don Bowen
don.bowen at earthlink.net
Sat Apr 12 22:09:35 EDT 2008
>2250 miles at 30 mpg is hmm about 200 gallons r/t, at $5 a gallon
>comes to around $1k and 2 or 3 days driving each way. A touch more
>money if it was the VW bus (23 mpg), call it 250 gallons r/t. To be
>honest I can't see driving half way across the country and not taking the
>bus.
Sometime in the next few weeks I will be leaving Hollister, CA heading
toward Covina, near LA for a couple of days. Then it will be off to the
Ozarks. My trip planning shows a bit under 2000 miles total. Towing I get
something like 9.5 mpg and with an average gasoline price of $3.30 (a guess)
it will be a bit under $700. The date of when I leave depends somewhat on
the money situation. I am owed some money I hope to collect.
Monday morning I start the trip by leaving Southern Riverside County for
Covina. I will be there for a day or so to put together a 1948 Ford 8N. My
friend there is trying to talk me into staying around until the weekend when
we will drive to Tulare for a large antique tractor show. If so I will
leave for Hollister the following Monday. In Hollister I have to put
together three tractors then collect some money then head east. See the
journal for details.
Good conversation and the smell of good Pizza, good beer, and now Cherry pie
are drawing me forward.
Don Bowen KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html
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