technical notes part 2

well well well. i have filled up my gas tank 5 more times, and we all know what that means! more technical notes, something that i find amusing, and necessary. now, finally, i am getting more into the groove of the trip, the idea of it that had shaped in my mind before i left. that idea was to be moving about 300 miles/week. or, more specifically, i would get somewhere and be there for a couple of days never traveling more than a gas tank at a time.

well, i filled up my gas tank 5 times in ten days on the first technical notes. for reference it has been about 11 days since the last time i filled up, and 26 days since this cycle started. that is a drastic change, and one i am happy for.

so, over the last 26 days, i have bought 73 gallons of gas, and traveled 1678 miles. i spent $185.57 on that gas. my average is 23 miles per gallon. it makes sense that this is less than the previous, because i have done a bunch more city driving than i had in the previous calculation. also, this average is much more in line with what the truck should be getting and what i had hoped to get from it.

continuing with averages: i am traveling about 336 miles/tank of gas; i am putting 14.6 gallons into my tank each fill up; gas per gallon is about $2.54; i am spending $37.11 at each station; and i am filling up about every 5 days.

it total i have traveled 3609 miles since i left portland on may 14th. which means i have traveled about 100 miles per day on average! i would like to bring that down, drastically. however, i am only traveling at about 4.2 miles per hour. on average. so, if i had been walking 24 hours a day since i left, i would be about the same place. interesting.

thats enough of the old geek out session now.