There is, of course, a major tradeoff to a road trip. A road trip is cheap if your time is free. Fortunately, since I'm on vacation this week, my time suddenly became much less expensive.
I'm amazed by how cheap some parts of the country still are. In Carlisle, PA, we were able to get brunch for four people for less than $25, including a generous tip. Living in Brooklyn and working in Manhattan, my ideas of prices are really inflated. There are still parts of the country where $20 will last you a while!
The road trip was my first time behind the wheel of a motorcar for quite some time. I learned to drive primarily to operate the famous Bike and Build van, with its trailer. I've spent so much time driving vans and trucks, that driving a car always seems strange.
Dave and I joked that, if I had a Specialized Transition on top of the car, our gas efficiency would have improved by 500% percent, and that if it had a Zipp disc, we could have just used the crosswind to push us to North Carolina.
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2008-03-15
2008-03-14
Road Trip!
I'll be heading down to North Carolina in just a few hours. I'll be staying in Asheville, NC, and riding up and down the Blue Ridge Trail and neighboring mountains.
I'm still amazed by how cheap all of this is going to be. I'll be sharing a car with another person (Dave Miller), so we'll split the price of gas. Dave has a little Porsche, titled the Clown Car, that holds two bikes overhead in a Thule rack. It takes premium gas. For the 700 mile haul from Brooklyn to Asheville, with a gas efficiency of about 20 MPG and a fuel price of $3.25 per gallon, split between the two of us, we're looking at a fuel cost of about $115 per person. This is pretty good for a round trip, certainly cheaper than any commercial flight or bus service.
With a $100 food budget, a donation to the people who are being incredibly generous by lending us their house, and the inevitable small bike parts, I'm looking at spending $250 for the entire week.
The last time I took a road trip was when I helped drive the Bike and Build van back from Seattle, WA to New York City, via Colorado.
I'm still amazed by how cheap all of this is going to be. I'll be sharing a car with another person (Dave Miller), so we'll split the price of gas. Dave has a little Porsche, titled the Clown Car, that holds two bikes overhead in a Thule rack. It takes premium gas. For the 700 mile haul from Brooklyn to Asheville, with a gas efficiency of about 20 MPG and a fuel price of $3.25 per gallon, split between the two of us, we're looking at a fuel cost of about $115 per person. This is pretty good for a round trip, certainly cheaper than any commercial flight or bus service.
With a $100 food budget, a donation to the people who are being incredibly generous by lending us their house, and the inevitable small bike parts, I'm looking at spending $250 for the entire week.
The last time I took a road trip was when I helped drive the Bike and Build van back from Seattle, WA to New York City, via Colorado.
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