Stats

Even though the trip isn’t over yet (today is day 7), the stats post is ready!

Day 1 – Fremont, CA to Kingman, AZ 592 miles

Day 2 – Kingman, AZ to Gallup NM 332 miles

Day 3 – Gallup NM to Weatherford, OK 609 miles

Day 4 – Weatherford, OK to Fenton, MO 553 miles

Day 5 – Fenton MO to Westerville OH 451 miles

Day 6 – Westerville OH to Oneonta, NY 544 miles

Day 7 – Oneonta NY to Weymouth MA 260 miles

Total – 3,301 miles

I’m not going to go back and count the charge stops – generally, four or five a day.

Gallons of gas: 0

Audiobooks:

On the plane, I finished a book by Bill Bryson about European travel in the 1990s

Started on the plane, finished on the road: “Lafayette in the Somewhat United States” by Sarah Vowell, a snarky view of the American Revolution, if you can believe it.

“Forever Peace” by Joe Haldeman, a 1997 sequel to “Forever War,” a legendary sci-fi masterpiece written twenty five years earlier.

“Earning the Rockies,” a book about how geography shaped American history, which I didn’t like nearly as much as I thought I would. But it’s got a driving west trip in it.

“Caliban’s War,” the third novel in the sci-fi “Expanse” series, which follows the unbelievably excellent series available on Amazon Prime.

“Stardust” by Neil Gaiman, because who doesn’t love Neil Gaiman?

I finished “Stardust” last night and will get into “Disappointment River” today, a history of Alex MacKenzie and the Northwest Passage, written by a man who retraced MacKenzie’s adventure down the river that bears his name.