We drove from Long Island to Boston a few weeks back.  That’s about 250 miles and it took us around five hours including a long-ish lunch break at Rein’s Deli just outside of Hartford.  Yesterday we left our home in Washington and made it halfway through Oregon.  It took about seven hours including long-ish lunch break at Burgerville in Centralia and a Starbucks break in, um, somewhere in Oregon.  The thirty miles on I-5 north of Eugene is the straightest road I can remember traveling in a long while.  But the car is so noisy, you don’t get lulled to sleep by it.

If you spend most of your time on the east coast, you miss how big this country really is.  And how much space there is between cities.  And we’re in Oregon which is nothing like Montana or Wyoming.

We’re getting just about twenty miles to the gallon, a little more than I expected.  But still, the 322 miles we drove ate a full tank of gas.  At least it’s one-third the price the last time we took this car on a road trip.  (That was Germany…)

Today is more driving and maybe meeting up with a friend in Medford.  We’re trying to get upwards of half the miles done in the first two days and then slow down when we get near the Bay Area.

Day 1

Start	End
Woodinville, WA 1:40pm	Springfield, OR 8:00pm

Day two, off we go!