Homestead mailing list

[Rob <becida AT comcast.net>]

At  4/12/2008 07:09 PM,Don  Bowen wrote:
> >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.

 http://www.gasbuddy.com/gb_gastemperaturemap.aspx  has nationwide gas prices.

The past few months I had to do several trips to northern California 
for my mother, the last was a few weeks ago when she passed away. I 
was just happy to be able to get gasoline.



Rob

becida AT comcast.net
Western Washington State, USA