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<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\nYesterday and today I drove up to Long Island to pick up our boys from Dave’s parents’ house. Since it was a quick trip and could pack lightly, I was able to take our Prius, and since the conditions worked out well enough, I was able to score over 50mpg today! Yesterday, in the 100F+ heat coming up I-85 with full A\/C and very little use of the brakes, the mileage was more like 46-48mpg. Once I got on I-95 where you can’t just set the cruise control and the temperatures today were mostly in the 80s (it was raining most of my time in New Jersey).<\/p>\n
I’m pretty beat from the drive, but not at all in a bad way. I enjoy driving, and it was downright peaceful getting to enjoy the scenery with hungry, bored, or fighting kids. I was pretty worried about making the I-95 trek from Petersburg, VA all the way to New York City…to the point I even asked some Facebook friends their opinions of using U.S. 13 up the Delmarva Peninsula<\/a> instead! According to Google Maps, taking US 13 would add about 60 miles and 70 minutes to my trip. I left my stopover point (my sister’s house in NC) at the right time to go ahead and stay on I-95…I made it through (not around, through<\/i>) Washington, D.C. around 11am, through <\/i>Baltimore around 12pm, and through <\/i>Wilmington, DE around 2pm. I crossed the Verrazano Narrows Bridge just before 4pm…which is about when the traffic started getting bad.<\/p>\n I also want to write about the airliners I kept encountering on their final approaches (ATL, CLT, DCA, BWI and JFK), as well as the beautiful town of Eufaula, Alabama<\/a>. That’s for when I’m awake…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First I’ll greet you with this super cool picture: This is why it’s wonderful to own a Toyota Prius! Yesterday and today I drove up to Long Island to pick up our boys from Dave’s parents’ house. Since it was a quick trip and could pack lightly, I was able to take our Prius, and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[23,163,37],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-automobiles","tag-road-trip","tag-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t