Trip to Iowa - The Final Day

We are starting the final leg of our trip to Iowa. I've looked on line and the roads appear to be open. We are going to continue forth because...well, what other choice do we have. We are not going to take up residence in a Super 8 Motor Lodge. I can only eat so many waffles.

So, when we meet again, it will be from home or a ditch somewhere in Montana. I'm hoping it will not be the ditch because I still have to publish these posts. I'm sure as shit not leaving the house empty for ten days and letting every scumbag on line know about it.

SUCCESS!

We have made it home. It was a great trip but we are glad to be home. And Oscar seems to be happy to have us back, while at the same time being really pissed off at us.

Now that we are home it is time to access the trip and look at all the stats.

This is our traveling vehicle. It's a Kia Sportage with 10,076 brand new miles on it.

It's a totally okay vehicle with a bluetooth feature for the phone and Ipod and this very groovy trip computer that tells you the time of the trip, the average speed of the trip, the miles traveled during the trip and the gas mileage for the trip.

For example, on a leg of the trip that I drove from Gillette, Wyoming to Wall, SD, I averaged 76 mph, it took 2 hours and 33 minutes and I traveled 195.4 miles. Isn't that cool?! That is raw hard data that can be used to...um...I have no idea what to do with the information. But it is cool.

The trip to Des Moines took two and a half days and we traveled 1,628 miles to get there.

Here's another cool bit of useless data. Today we drove 543 miles and it took us 7 hours and 44 minutes. Our average speed for the 7 hours was 70 mph. 

We have put 3,297 miles on this car.

Okay, now it's time to re-align to the Pacific Time Zone and get back to life.