Odyssey

Road Stats: Week 16


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  • Number of days on the road: 105
  • Miles Driven: 9856
  • Number of States/Provinces driven in: 17
  • Number of US/Canadian Border Crossings: 2
  • Money spent on gas: $2678
  • Cheapest gas price: $3.25/gallon (Fredericksburg, VA).
  • Highest gas price: $5.64/gallon (1.39/liter) (Wawa, ON).
  • Amount of time required to drive 47 miles from Falls Church VA to Baltimore DC: 2.5 hours (frustration: infinite)
  • Photos posted: 2154 (that is an average of 20.5 per day)
  • Number of books read: 11 (Most recent: Cloud Atlas)
  • Number of nights in hotels/B&B: 9
  • Number of nights camping: 16
  • Number of visits to Hyperion Espresso in Fredericksburg: 4 (almost every day)


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  • Number of un,non,anti conference family reunions attended: 1
  • Number of Nights of Bavastock Craziness: 6
  • Braincells Lost in the Man Shed: several million
  • Intensity of Martha Burtis’ Marthinis: unable to calculate, but they were tasty
  • Sweetness of Jim Groom’s Kids: off the scale.


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  • Number of new forms of transportation: 4 (paddleboard, Jet Ski, 4 wheel Quad, tractor)
  • Best Beach Walk: Batchawana Bay Provincial Park
  • Friend/Relatives Homes Visited/Mooched Upon: 27
  • Best Bike Ride: Canmore to Banff and back with D’Arcy Norman.
  • Best Town Name: Fracking, Pennsylvania
  • Laundry Stops: 12
  • Number of Times Timmmmy Boy made me laugh with “Tell mw about my eyes”: 30? 40?

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    • 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).
    • Best Campground and Experience (likely never to be knocked off this list): Canoeing to Wallace Island, BC with Scott Leslie; Least Impressive: Haag Cove, Washington
    • Number of dogs met: 27
    • Number of ds106 radio broadcasts with new people: 10 (most recent with Cole Camplese in State College PA; Kevin M in State College PA; George Brett in Falls Church VA)
    • Number of Super Late Night ds106 Broadcasts That Were Totally Worth It: All of them.
    • Number of DTLT Today Appearances: 4
    • Number of friends known online met for first time: 19 (most recently added Tim Owens, Tom Woodward, Jon Becker, Sheryl Nusbaum-Beach)


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    1. Bavastock hit it out of the park. This is an extra big update. I can;t begin to express how much fun the whole thing was, but I think it is time I tried 🙂

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