Farther Than I Thought

OK. Four days on the road and we're still a couple of days from Charleston SC, our first non-Walmart destination. I really didn't think living in Nova Scotia would  add that many miles (days) to the trip to warmer climates. It's pretty much twice as far as it used to be from Toronto. But it is what it is, I'm not complaining.

So how do I amuse myself during the endless hours of driving? Well, I started playing chicken with the fuel gauge. It works like this. Ever since I got the Unit, I always filled the tank when it showed 1/4 and even pushed it to 1/8th sometimes. So a few days ago it was at 1/8th and I chickened out, and filled it. To my surprise, it took 77 US gallons. 

Now, the Unit, legend has it, carries a 150 US gallon tank. So if it showed 1/8th and it took 77 gallons, that means there should have been over 70 gallons left when I filled it, (in a perfect world). And 70 US gallons at about 9 MPG means I could have gone another 630 miles.

So today we did about 300 miles with the gauge on the empty peg. What fun! And (once again in a perfect world), there should still be about 25 gallons left in the tank.......
Stay tuned, tomorrow when I fill it, we will find out just how close we were to a roadside assistance call. 

No post is complete without at least one picture so here are our copilots, on the job. Tara is much happier now that we pushed a chair in between us so she can see out the windows too.