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  • Number of days on the road: 133
  • Miles Driven: 12,605
  • Most Recent 1000 mile marker: 12,000 miles, south of Atlanta, GA on October 30
  • Number of States/Provinces driven in: 24
  • Number of US/Canadian Border Crossings: 4
  • Money spent on gas: $3437
  • Cheapest gas price: $3.08/gallon (Fountain Inn, SC).
  • Highest gas price: $5.64/gallon (CA$1.39/liter) (Wawa, ON).
  • Photos posted: 2639 (that is an average of 19.8 per day)
  • Most scenic foliage drive: Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina. Second was highway 58 in southwest Virginia
  • Best alternative to Interstate- US 19, the Georgia-Florida Parkway.


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  • Number of nights camping: 20
  • Best Campground and Experience (likely never to be knocked off this list): Canoeing to Wallace Island, BC with Scott Leslie; close second Holly Bay Campground, Daniel Boone National Forest.
  • Number of un,non,anti conference family reunions attended: 1 Bavastock!
  • Most unexpected activities: Riding a tractor on the Durnin Farm, Helping a friend of a friend move in Nashville, my abduction from a trip to Hawaii and answering a call to go to Brock University, visiting a gator farm, seeing a high school performance of Little Mermaid; spending Halloween in a LaQuinta Motel with my sister and brother-in-law.
  • Most depressing shell of a city: Danville VA


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  • Number of times spent helping a friend of a friend move: 1 (thats what happens when you drive a truck)
  • Number of new forms of transportation: 4 (paddleboard, Jet Ski, 4 wheel Quad, tractor)
  • Best Beach Walk: Batchawana Bay Provincial Park
  • Number of videos created for search for Center of the Internet: 7
  • Number of parents homes emptied out: 0.5 (still working on it)


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  • Most Gracious Hospitality by someone who is waayyyyyy busy and asked on last minute notice: Vicki Davis.
  • Friend/Relatives Homes Visited/Mooched Upon: 32
  • Best Out of the Way Museums: EBR-1 Breeder Reactor Idaho National Laboratory; Old Idaho Penitentiary, Boise ID; Gopher Hole Museum, Torrington AB; Little Congress Bicycle Museum, Cumberland Gap, TN
  • Best Bike Ride: Canmore to Banff and back with D’Arcy Norman.
  • Most Recent Bike Ride: Virginia Beach
  • Best Town Name: Fracking, Pennsylvania
  • Number of friends known online met for first time: 22 (most recently added Cindy Jennings)
  • Laundry Stops: 15
  • Number of Breweries Visited: 7 (Glenwood Canyon Brewery (CO), Revolution Brewing, Paonia CO; Laughing Dog Brewing, Sandpoint ID; Grizzly Paw, Canmore AB; Steamwhistle, Toronto ON; Ottos, State College PA).
  • Number of ds106 radio broadcasts with new people: 10 (most recent with Tom Woodward in Richmond VA)
  • Number of Super Late Night ds106 Broadcasts That Were Totally Worth It: All of them.


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An early 90s builder of web stuff and blogging Alan Levine barks at CogDogBlog.com on web storytelling (#ds106 #4life), photography, bending WordPress, and serendipity in the infinite internet river. He thinks it's weird to write about himself in the third person. And he is 100% into the Fediverse (or tells himself so) Tooting as @cogdog@cosocial.ca

Comments

  1. In my high school year book there was a section at the end called “dot–dots” on which graduating seniors were able to summarize their experiences and write shout outs to friends and families. They were a list of thank you’s but instead of line breaks between each there were the three “…”

    Great summary of love, respect, and experience in this web-based dot–dots.

    Love it.

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