Around 2am, we stopped for the night at the Gray Goose Inn in Ogallala, Nebraska. I have only ever hear of it because it is a stop on the game "Oregon Trail".
So, day 2, Andrew and I slept in for a while and hit the road. We decided we didn't want to stop again, so we drove straight through, only stopping for food and the restroom when we had to fill up on gas. I drove during the day and Andrew drove through the night. All together, we drove for 23 1/2 hours straight over a distance of 1450 miles! Gas was cheaper everywhere we stopped outside of Utah. 89 octane gas in Iowa was $3.499/gallon. It's sad that I was excited for $3.50 gas. That reminds me, I was very pleased to see that a lot of new windmills had been built across the country. Europe, especially northern Europe, is still way ahead of us in harvesting wind energy. I don't understand why places like the west and mid-west don't capitalize on all the open land and high winds.Anyways, we made it home and I am loving watching the Olympics in HD!
2 comments:
why in the world are you using 89 octane gas? Your engine isn't refinded enough to use the extra octane, it just burns it like 85 or 87... and you should have rode with abe, he looked lonely back there
89 was cheaper than the 87 (Utah is the only state I know that even sells 85). I thought about riding with Abe, the bench didn't look very comfortable though.
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