Hey gang - thanks for letting us join you for the meeting/gathering as we had a great time.
Justin - Congrats again on your share of the Insight Marathon record and your framed award.
Bradlee - Thanks for inviting me. I filled up at home after the return trip and calculated the trip as 1,370 miles in 3 days (or for us Hybrid geeks the trip lasted for 27.2 gallons at an avg of 50.4 mpg though I didn't account for the 180 miles I drove on Friday for work prior to leaving for Milwaukee but this is close enough).
Also, I was wondering how/when/where to apply my "door prize" ($25 BP gas card) and felt it was only right to fill-up prior to leaving for home and use the gas card while the prices were high ($2.25 near Delafield, WI;
http://www.greenhybrid.com/discuss/showthread.php?p=96123#post96123). The pump -actually- shut off around 10.5 gal (47.8 mpg) but this was only $23.72. I decided to "take one for the team" and sacrifice my calculated FE and top off the tank. I hit 11.068 gal for exactly $25 which resulted in 45.4 mpg but applied your card perfectly (thanks). That fill-up lasted me the 630 miles home where I filled up with 11.086 gal at 56.8 mpg for the tank (on snow tires in dry conditions but temps dropping from 50 F to 35 F during the trip don't forget).
I enjoyed my rides in a Prius and Insight and really enjoyed driving them for the first time. My only complaint about the weekend? The time change. I knew the trip would take one hour longer on the return due to the Central-Eastern timezone change that loses us an hour; however, this was the time to "Fall back" so gaining that hour of daylight helped to offset the hour lost during the timezone change except that we stayed near Portage, IN last night and that was West of the timezone change but upon waking our cell phones and the Civic's GPS clock knew the "corrected time." I left at 10:30 AM car time and drove for 60 miles and then the car time read 12:30 PM but I was driving at 60 miles per hour. All of the Turnpike toll booths had clocks hanging there but they were all wrong as none of them were corrected across the entire state (and I "know" that not ALL of IN doesn't ignore the time change). So it was like a timewarp that failed on us as we hopped from the hotel room at an hour ahead, to our cell phone an hour back, to the hotel lobby an hour ahead, to our car an hour behind, to the toll booth an hour ahead ... I don't know if I will be an hour late for work in the morning, an hour early, or on-time. That's the only complaint though. I'll report more later.