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["Don Bowen" <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

> 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