A real vacation

Posted by nuxi on 2007-Jun-02 at 02:48:48 in My Life (Login to reply)

So my friend Katie has been asking me to visit her out at Yellowstone for a few years now. With random threats of mailing me moose droppings if I don't. So I finally decided to do it this August cause I have nothing else to do with all my vacation days.

The magnitude of the trip just sunk in. The distance is 3,400 miles round trip. That is 600 miles short of my 4 trips per year to MTU that I made as a student. And I thought the 500 miles each way on that was bad!

During this 3,400 miles, my gas millage could vary from using 85 to 105 gallons of gas. Thats two almost full tanks of gas for my car! Talk about a real demonstration of the cost of driving aggresively. It will be about $75 extra to drive fast. Also to do this trip in the vehicle I want, a Jeep, would cost approximately one full month's rent and use over 225 gallons of gas.

Wow. Can't wait and I don't mean that sarcastically. I'm looking forward to this adventure.