Odyssey

Road Stats Week 20


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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 the web 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.

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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