December 30, 2008

Tuesday
December 30, 2008

The first "planned" day of this trip

10:20 AM = Left motel
4254.9 miles
22,341 total
77 F
60% oil life
55% fuel

10:23/4255.4 = Entered Florida Turnpike
133 miles to Stuart exit

$1 toll @ m11
Another buck @ m22
Then another single @ m33
And breaking the pattern, the next 100 pennies was @ m45
Next one was way off -- m64.

11:39/4344.0 = Got a ticket (the good kind, not the bad kind). Now I can go non-stop to Stuart instead of paying $1 every 10-20 miles

12:12/4388.1 miles = x133 at Stuart. $5 final toll

$25.51 = 14.424 gallons (4389.9) Possibly last gas fillup of the year

From 12:45 to 3:30/43997.8 = Parked at Grant's house, went on his boat, up and down the river, didn't get sick, then lunch, then back

3:32/4397.8 = Left Grant's house, Orlando-bound

4:09/4409.5 = Joined the Turnkpike @ x142

4:49/4458.8 = x193
Bought a 1-day ticket to Disney
4:03/4460.3 = Back on the turnpike

5:40/4503.2 = near m236.5 = total tolls = $8.70 since Stuart

5:45/4508.5 = Took x242; no toll

6:12/4520.8 = Saw the Knights Inn that I was staying in in Feb '94 -- next to Perkins on corner of Poinciana Dr and 192.

6:31/4528.6 = Parked at Comfort Suites Maingate