Home Again, Home Again, Jiggedy Jig…

Roger — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:39:03 +0000

So we’re home after the trip out east to Newark, Delaware and Bar Harbor, Maine…

Travel Days were:

24 May pm – Caledonia to New Stanton, Pennsylvania – abt 440 miles;
25 May am – New Stanton, PA to Newark, Delaware – abt 245 miles;
27 May all day – Newark, DE to Bar Harbor, Maine – abt 625 miles in 12 1/2 hours;
2 June am – Bar Harbor, ME to the Mount Washington Cog Railway 255 miles in abt 5 1/2 hours, then to the summit of Mt Washington and back by Cog Railway;
2 June pm Mt Washington Cog Railway to Latham, New York (very near to Albany, New York) 216 miles in about 5 1/2 hours – a very long day!!!!!!;
3 June all day – Latham, NY to Bowling Green, Ohio – abt 620 miles in 10 1/2 hours;
4 June pm – after 7 1/2 hours in the Jerome Library on genealogy research – abt 200 miles back to Caledonia in abt 3 /12 hours.

Total travelling about 2,650 miles.

We spent 26 May in Newark, and then 28 May to 1 May in Bar Harbor where we did some local travelling around to Deer Island, Schoodic Head, and Cadillac Mountain and Acadia National Park which added another 270 or so miles.

Total mileage run 2,916, which used 105 gallons of fuel, which ranged in price/gallon from $2.22 in New Jersey to $2.96 back home in Caledonia.

So the number Don is waiting for is 27.76 mpg. Best run was 445 miles from somewhere in New York state back to Caledonia – 30.1 mpg. Worst run was all the mileage run around Bar Harbor, Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park – 24.3 mpg.

You’ve got to love the E-ZPass…

Roger — Fri, 29 May 2009 03:00:53 +0000

So we’re half-way on the May trip to the East Coast – meaning we have arrived in Bar Harbor, Maine for a few days. Wednesday’s big effort was 12 hours 40 minutes driving from Newark, Delaware to Bar Harbor Maine – 625 miles, of which a bit more than half was in the rain.

Expect Delays...

For the most part the travel along I-95, the New Jersey Turnpike, I-295 etc was without much incident, but as was the case last year the crunch in the traffic to fit however many roads and lanes down to the 6 or so lanes that go over the George Washington Bridge which crosses the Hudson River in New York was a nightmare of lane changing, squeezing, crawling and inching – the delay was at least all of that indicated on the signs in the picture above.

Apart from this mess, it was just a looooooooong day for the 625 miles, but we’re here now for a few days, and it’s almost already forgotten. Luckily we don’t have to go home this way!!!!!!

But the travelling is certainly made easier by the use of the E-ZPass I got for the car a few years ago which means we don’t have to stop and fumble with money to pay the various road tolls in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Maine (Ohio hasn’t yet joined the modern age and we do have to stop and hand over actual money at the Toll Booths there). Some Toll Booths require you to slow down to 15 mph, or 10 mph or even 5 mph, but the newer ones – “Express” let you just drive on through at 55 mph, and somehow their technology can read the E-ZPass transponder that is stuck to the top of the windscreen inside. It is read, and the toll deducted from our account, which is automagically replenished when it’s nearly empty. A great time and hassle saver.

A sign of a different nature took our fancy today when Lisa, Don, Mindy and I were heading out for a drive to Deer Isle down to the south west of Mount Desert Island (more on that in another posting tomorrow…)

A Septic Message

(click the image to see a larger version of it).

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Home Again, Home Again, Jiggedy Jig…

You’ve got to love the E-ZPass…