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Originally Posted by Delta Flyer
. . . I've come up with three options of getting there:
- Fly from Dallas (I think the round trip would be $250-300)<<
- Drive in my Insight the shortest route thru Tennessee, to I95 in Washington up to NYC<<
- Drive an additional 100 miles driving: Dallas, Oklahoma City, Indianapolis, Ohio, Pennsylvania, NYC<<
My Insight could do 60mpg or so at 70mph on the freeways. Drive time would be two full days. I'm not supposed to run a couple of days before the race - no problem. |
When I flew to Ft. Worth to pickup my Prius, I asked the flight crew for a 'head count' and 'fuel burn'. I used my drive-back miles and converted it into passenger-miles-per-gallon and plotted it on my
graph. It came out about 62 MPG at a block-to-block speed of 233
MPH.
Now if you can get someone in the other seat, you'll get double the passenger-miles-per-gallon. Perhaps you have a dog? Better still, find a college student or service man who needs a 'cheap seat' to New York. Two guys can swap driving and you'll be there about as quickly as possible. Even if you have to average a two-seat out and one-seat back, you should still beat the airline. (I've tried to teach my dog to drive but she can't pass the written.)
Bob Wilson