Odie's Roadies

Sunday, September 18, 2005

Greetings from Selma Alabama

Geez, Florida is a loooooonnngg state. We've traveled north for 778 miles since leaving Fort Lauderdale, only to reach the 'Deep South'! Of course, part of the problem on this particular trip is that we are detouring north a bit in order to avoid traveling thru the hardest hit area from Katrina. We understand that all the roads are open and that gas is available, but the area is in much disarray and we don't want to add to the congestion. So, although highway 10 is the logical route to get from Florida to Austin, Texas - we traveled an extra 100 or so miles to get to highway 20. That will take us to Dallas, then we'll head back south again to go to Austin. Y'know, I've never been to New Orleans - but now certainly is not the right time! We know a few folks, with the Datastorm satellite dish who are going there to help out by providing Internet connections. But they have specific assignments to do so - you don't want to just 'show up'.



So - we get to add a new state to our map today!



We beat our previous mileage record of 400 miles today. We traveled 422! But the real record was money spent for gas. Here we are filling up for the second time today, spending a grand total of $234 for gas!



Our gas tank holds 50 gallons and that gets us about 400 miles. Well, at least the price is going down rather than up - notice the $2.63 price on the sign.

And check out the love bugs!



We didn't stop till about 8pm and, we needed to do some grocery shopping anyway, so we just parked at Walmart for the night.


Westward ho!
posted by Chris at 9/18/2005 07:48:00 AM

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