Sunday, 20 January 2013

Road trip: It's a wrap!


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After 10 days on the road, we arrived! Here are some fun facts about our trip:

  • Total distance: 4,049 mi (6516 km)
  • Total time: 67 hours and 30 minutes
  • Average speed: 60 mi/h (97 km/h)
  • Average gas mileage: 32.9 MPG (7,15 L/100 km)
  • Shortest day (time): 3 hours and 14 minutes between Nashville and Memphis
  • Longest day (time): 10 hours and 46 minutes between Gaithersburg and Nashville
  • Shortest day (distance): 214 mi (344 km) between Nashville and Memphis
  • Longest day (distance): 689 mi (1109 km) between Gaithersburg and Nashville
  • Slowest day: 48 mi/h (77 km/h) between Salida and Moab
  • Fastest day: 69 mi/h (111 km/h) between Salt Lake City and Reno
  • Green day: 39.2 MPG (6,00 L/100 km) between Reno and San Francisco (downhill!)
  • Gas guzzler day: 27 MPG (8,71 L/100 km) between Oklahoma City and Amarillo (combination of high speed limits and strong headwinds)
  • Cracker Barrel day: too much to count between Gaithersburg and Nashville
  • Coldest temperature: -14 F (-26 C) in Colorado, somewhere between the Monarch Pass and Gunnison
  • Warmest temperature: 70 F (21 C) in Tennessee
  • Total number of bags of chips: 3 (small ones, we cheated)
We really enjoyed the trip, especially seeing all the different landscapes in the US, and have met only nice people! We had many food experiences, most of them great and I would like to thank Yelp for that :) Now onto some new adventures.

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