In <41b62e30a37d.424191da@gci.net>, on 03/23/05 at 03:57 PM, Mark Tuovinen <mst@AK.NET> said: >RE: " Your gas costs will exceed exceed $700," >Via what route would this be? Assuming 3000 miles at a reasonably >conservative 15mpg you will use 200 gallons, is gas really $3.50 per >gallon down there? >Re: "3000+ miles, about 96 hours behind the wheel, and if you don't get >> about 9 hours a day, you won't make it out and back in time for work. " >3000 miles divided by 96hrs equals 31.25 average speed, even a vanagon >can do better then that. Since it is not stated exaclty where the >starting and ending locations are, I choose to calculate from Seattle to >Fall River, approx. 3,100 miles. If you only drove 400 miles per day for >eight days you would have six full days left over to cover getting to the >west coast, out fitting the van, sight seeing, etc. Are you really unable to see that I mistakenly thought he was talking about driving out and driving back. My math is correct, but I assumed a round trip drive. If it is a fly out, drive back, I say do it. How can you read what I wrote and not see that I just misread his intentions? I gotta get a new hobby..... John |
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