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87: $2.47
89: $2.67
93: $2.77
Actually most of tourist season is fine and is a big part of the local economy but a day like today you have to plan every trick in the book just to get around.
The 10' box got 13.1 mpg per the readout on the dash. :shades:
We're checking out green places - naturally the places we want to live are at the end of the supply chain so gas prices aren't going to get any cheaper for us.
Gas prices are higher most of the time. Though last trip it was less than CA. Only while they caught up. Looks like they are paying about $3.40 for RUG these days.
For years I prided myself that I could always get to work, no matter what the weather.
Currently, my commute is 20-25 minutes and I can WFH, if I want to.
Overall, I prefer to be in the office, just for the people interaction.
Since I have at least a couple of different vehicles i can drive, I can go a while between fill ups. Of course, I seem to always work it out where they need to be filled up at the same time. frown emotorcon
Nearly everyone in my office drives as long and some substantially more. Ironically, this is for a natural resources office. No public transportation - or we would use it. No telecommuting because budget cuts have us below adequate staffing levels.
My kind of driving brings a different perspective to the forums - I know how a 3-4 year old car can rack up 100K miles and still look nearly new. That is, if you can avoid the maniacs and deer.
You have any relatives in San Diego or El Paso? One of our good friends is John Morin here in SD. Not a real common name.
Gas prices inching down here. Passed several indies in the low $2.8** range yesterday.
RUG = $2.55
Plus = $2.65
Ultra = $2.75
I've always liked that area down there, but wondered how the commute might be. How is that Route 2-4 stretch during rush hour? I think the problem is, there's only one main road for that whole peninsula, so I could see some pretty serious back-ups.
BTW, I remember there used to be a pretty big junkyard down that way. It was on the right, as you were going south. I didn't notice it though, driving down or coming back. Usually even in the summer, you could see the cars through the trees. I looked it up on google maps though, and it seems like it's mostly cleared out. If you look up 7162 Saw Mill Road, Lusby, MD on Google maps, it puts you right in front of the junkyard. Looks like most of the cars are cleared out, along with a lot of trees, with just a bunch of junk left scattered about. And I can tell from the aerial view that the '58 DeSoto Firedome with the '57 grille is gone.
As for commuting, right now I drive a whopping 4 miles to work, unless I take the scenic route. That's about to drop in a month or so, to 2.5 miles, when I move to a different building. I've toyed with the idea of moving further out, but I'm the type of person who values the land and privacy more than a fancy house, and there's now way I'm getting 4+ acres for a decent price, unless I move WAY out! And then, property taxes would probably shoot up, as I've been where I'm at long enough that the homestead tax credit has kept my taxes down by a pretty substantial amount.
Elbow room - nice to look out & see no houses - except the bluebird houses I have set around the edge of the woods!
Enjoy your retirement! I hope it was by choice - too many retirements are being forced on us now. I'm eligible for "early retirement" but I'm fortunate to work with a lot of wonderful, very dedicated people in natural resources and want to continue.
Good thing gas prices have not returned to the level they were a couple of summers ago.
RUG is the low 2.6x to low 2.7x here in central CT.
That junkyard got cleaned up when scrap prices went up. I used to see trucks hauling the old cars to Baltimore. Incidentally, there was a saw mill across the street from the junkyard & it closed in the 80's - I did manage to get some nice cherry planks from it.
The bridge is the Thomas Johnson Bridge over the Patuxent from Solomons to St. Mary's Co. I remember talking to people in the mid-late 70's before it was built who had never been to the other side. That bridge is a source of backups - traffic is either slowed by repairs or by accidents. The SHA has a planning study for replacing the bridge - we just got a glossy publication in the mail from them because we've attended their open houses and signed up for updates. I use the nice 4-ramp state boat ramp under the bridge at Solomons.
If you drive in the area, the worst route 4 traffic is the afternoon rush between Huntingtown and Prince Frederick. It is bumper-to-bumper gridlock between 4-6:30 pm weekdays. The auto insurance industry has put rt 4 in its highest category for fatalities. The surface is like a racetrack in some areas and speeds commonly exceed 100. The official speed limit is 55, but I think you have to exceed 80 to be stopped. There have been some high profile accidents in the last 2 years, such as the local police officer who hit a stopped car at an estimated 120 and killed a local girl who just graduated from HS. While I like driving the perfect road surfaces without potholes, it allows way too much reckless driving and we know several people who have lost their lives, including one of our kids' teachers, on rt 4. We've been T-boned and sideswiped (stolen car in a chase) with no injuries.
I-95 and the Beltway; feel like a fish out of water driving around there.
We pretty much don't go that way anymore.
I have seen this on many roads - its a problem that is hard to avoid and I suspect that its universal. Probably the worst for wrong-way drivers on divided highways that I drive is route 50/301 on the Eastern Shore - where I dodge them. Here's one from today's news on route 795:
http://www.wbaltv.com/news/24951515/detail.html
When my kids were learning to drive, I told them to drive as though every other driver on the road was trying to kill them.
Gas has been steady as the proverbial rock here. Been $2.47 for reg for maybe two weeks.
87: $2.45
89: $2.65
93: $2.75
The van is relatively "empty" for this road trip and I've barely broken 25 mph. Last tank crossing from VA to WV to OH today was a bit over 23. Usually I would get 28 or 29 on the road like this.
So, either I've had a lot of bad ethanol tanks the last ~9,000 miles or the compression or something is going on the van. :sick:
I have chemo in Toms River myself. Watch it be the same doctor.
Couldn't do the commute though. Mine is 7 days out of 28 - but only for less than an hour a pop. I should be around for a good long time but this will be part of the routine.
If I were smart I'd do my gas buying around the trips because gas is cheaper there than down in Manahwkin.
I've always been a Luddite when it came to technology like GPS ("why do I want that - I know where I'm going?") but the ability to store coordinates for stations selling pure gas sold me. It would kill me to fill up with crappy E10 on a long trip and then pass a pure gas station a mile later... And you can save locations for special food places - like clam joints in New England.
And yeah, my van is pushing 12 years and 150,000 miles. It still seems peppy enough but the mpg isn't what I'm used to. No CEL but maybe some codes are hiding in the system.
It sure is more comfy to cruise in that the old Outback so we'll probably just run it into the ground. I was sure anticipating better mpg on this trip though.