2007-11-08 
 

cross country math

I had a minor freak out today after visiting the storage unit. In order to bring my brain back under control I did various math problems.

I figured out that we used 122 gallons of gas to drive a total of 4300 miles across the country. We averaged about 35.3 miles to the gallon. (Considering our car was weighted down with all the extra stuff we forgot to cram into the moving truck, not too shabby.)

We spent a total of 358 dollars on gas at an average price of $2.94 per gallon.

Did you need to know that? Perhaps not, but it helped make my brain feel a bit better about the possibility of a missing box.

Here's a semi-accurate map of the journey. Mapquest only allows 10 destinations, so our stops in Hardin, Montana; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and Freemont, Indiana are missing. It also neatly chops of about 500 miles in various sections where we took the road less travelled, but at this size it doesn't make that much of a difference. (Clicking on the map should make it slightly larger.)

Labels: cross country, dose of mikey

* posted by me at 5:16 PM

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