Friday
December 19, 2008 (A.D.)
8:30 PM = Started on the longest trip in this car (by the time its over)
0.0 Trip A Miles
0.0 Trip B Miles
18086 Total Odometer
100% Oil Life
"Roadtrips 1" is playing -- "Summer is Gone" ... I just got comfy.
8:34 PM = Actually started driving!!!
I haven't driven this car since I got the servicing & carwash last Saturday... needs some getting used to, but I've missed it!
"Here I Go Again" now.
8:48/8.9 trip miles = From Bailey Rd. to U.S. 101 South... ok I guess I'm not going over Donner Pass on I-80...
"Where the Streets Have No Name" by U2 now -- such perfect roadtrip lyrics!
9:39 PM/66.4 = Joined the first of many interstates on this trip -- good ole I-5 (from 152) -- I'm goin' South. And "You Can Go Your Own Way" just started on the CD... "and... LOVIN' IT!" as Maxwell Smart would say
11:39/210.2 = Took x257 @ Buttonwillow; "So long I-5!"
1:11 AM/302.5 = Opened the cashews box -- time for 1:11 AM snack while watching a large crescent moon on the horizon
1:35 AM/329 miles = Passed Kramer Junction; there's snow next to the road and the temp. outside is 30F.
1:45 AM/337.2 = "Went" (When you gotta go, you gotta go!) ... filled up on drinks from the trunk too.
I dont think I've ever seen snow on this stretch of Hwy 58 -- Just in Tehachapi.
2:10 AM/359.4 = Joined the other major North-South interstate freeway in California -- I-15 North @ Barstow
2:13/362.7 = Joined Good ole I-40 East...
2:18/369.6 = x7 @ Daggett; turned around, going back to Barstow to fill up gas
2:31/377.5 trip miles = $30 = 15.314 Gallons
2:40/384.6 = Passed x7 again
4:43 AM PST/518.0 = At x141 in Needles
5:54 AM MST = 531.2 trip miles = Crossed the mighty Colorado river and entered the Grand Canyon State and the next time zone...
6:12/553.9 = Pulled into rest area
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