Posted in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Travel, Utah, Washington, Wyoming on Sep 14th, 2009 No Comments »
Seattle to Albuquerque round trip route, 3841.1 miles in 7 days and 3 hours, from GPS track:
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Posted in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Travel, Utah, Washington, Wyoming on Sep 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
So here is a breakdown of how well we did gas-wise on the trip.
Seattle to Albuquerque, including driving around Yellowstone, was 2063.4 miles.
Albuquerque to Seattle, via the Grand Canyon, was 1777.7 miles.
Total distance round trip was 3841.1 miles.
We made 14 stops for gas with an average distance of 274 miles between stops.
Average fill up was [...]
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Posted in Montana, Travel, Wyoming on Aug 26th, 2009 No Comments »
There was a twilight zone moment early this morning when we stopped at the 3rd identical Montana rest stop after several hundred miles of identical stretches of road, when I wondered if we were actually making progress, or just rolling along a treadmill in the same place all night. I started wondering if I wasn’t [...]
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Posted in Montana, Travel on Aug 26th, 2009 2 Comments »
All’s quiet here… Making decent time. “Premium” gas here is 91 octane… strange. –
mobile mail sent via phone http://roam.autarken.net
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Plans for an ambitious road trip around the American West late this summer are coming together. The impetus for this trip is that my cousin is getting married in Albuquerque at the end of August. Given that there doesn’t seem to be a direct flight from Seattle and tickets are relatively expensive (especially compared to [...]
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