{"id":864,"date":"2007-08-05T22:37:19","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T03:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/864"},"modified":"2007-08-05T22:37:19","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T03:37:19","slug":"a-few-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/864","title":{"rendered":"A Few Statistics&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miles traveled : 8,126.<\/p>\n<p>Gallons of Gas: 244.953.<\/p>\n<p>Cost of Gas: 726.54.<\/p>\n<p>High gas price: 3.599 in Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>Low gas price: 2.729 in Virgina.<\/p>\n<p>States Crossed: 16 (Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma).<\/p>\n<p>Motels Stayed In: 10.<\/p>\n<p>Motels with reliable broadband: 5.<\/p>\n<p>Road Headaches: 1.<\/p>\n<p>Missed Turns: 3.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic Jams Endured: 3.&nbsp; Denver, Albuquerque, Pismo Beach.&nbsp; Yes&#8230;Pismo Beach.<\/p>\n<p>County Fairs visited: 1.<\/p>\n<p>Cute guys gawked at: Too many for my own good.<\/p>\n<p>Trading Posts visited: 8.<\/p>\n<p>Turquoise Bought: 5 bracelets, 2 chokers.<\/p>\n<p>Bone Chokers Bought:&nbsp; 3 Cherokee, 1 Navajo.<\/p>\n<p>Tie-dye t-shirts bought: 5.<\/p>\n<p><em>&quot;Is that one of those iPhones?&quot;<\/em>: 3 times.<\/p>\n<p><em>&quot;You work for the Hubble Space Telescope?&quot;<\/em>: 7 times.<\/p>\n<p><em>&quot;You drove all the way from Maryland?&quot;<\/em>: 20+ times.<\/p>\n<p><em>&quot;How long did it take to grow your hair that long?&quot;<\/em>: 4 times.<\/p>\n<p><em>&quot;Baltimore&#8230;?&nbsp; That&#8217;s somewhere on the east coast&#8230;right?&quot;<\/em>: 1 time.<\/p>\n<p>Discoveries:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Texting can be addictive.&nbsp;\n<\/li>\n<li>Taking your own pillow along is well worth the cargo space it takes up.&nbsp;\n<\/li>\n<li>Digital SLR makers badly need to get a handle on the dust issue.&nbsp;\n<\/li>\n<li>Wyoming should not be judged by I-80.&nbsp;\n<\/li>\n<li>Portland gets nicer every time you visit.&nbsp;\n<\/li>\n<li>Slot machines are even more evil then I thought.&nbsp;\n<\/li>\n<li>Travel alone isn&#8217;t as much fun as it used to be.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miles traveled : 8,126. Gallons of Gas: 244.953. Cost of Gas: 726.54. High gas price: 3.599 in Nevada. Low gas price: 2.729 in Virgina. States Crossed: 16 (Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma). Motels Stayed In: 10. Motels with reliable broadband: 5. Road Headaches: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-road-trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}