{"id":622,"date":"2011-07-29T03:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/07\/another-road-trip-just-some-thoughts-to-write-about-later.html"},"modified":"2011-07-29T03:55:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T03:55:00","slug":"another-road-trip-just-some-thoughts-to-write-about-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/07\/another-road-trip-just-some-thoughts-to-write-about-later.html","title":{"rendered":"Another Road Trip! Just Some Thoughts to Write About Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First I&#8217;ll greet you with this super cool picture:<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Zis7j-tOPB8\/TjIrjprDLQI\/AAAAAAABYrU\/Msd58MW7Blc\/s1600\/278488_10150323213563428_503838427_9553179_3397217_o.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Zis7j-tOPB8\/TjIrjprDLQI\/AAAAAAABYrU\/Msd58MW7Blc\/s640\/278488_10150323213563428_503838427_9553179_3397217_o.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">This is why it&#8217;s wonderful to own a Toyota Prius!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Yesterday and today I drove up to Long Island to pick up our boys from Dave&#8217;s parents&#8217; house. &nbsp;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! &nbsp;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. &nbsp;Once I got on I-95 where you can&#8217;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<p>I&#8217;m pretty beat from the drive, but not at all in a bad way. &nbsp;I enjoy driving, and it was downright peaceful getting to enjoy the scenery with hungry, bored, or fighting kids. &nbsp;I was pretty worried about making the I-95 trek from Petersburg, VA all the way to New York City&#8230;to the point I even asked some Facebook friends their opinions of using U.S. 13 up the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Delmarva_Peninsula\">Delmarva Peninsula<\/a> instead! &nbsp;According to Google Maps, taking US 13 would add about 60 miles and 70 minutes to my trip. &nbsp;I left my stopover point (my sister&#8217;s house in NC) at the right time to go ahead and stay on I-95&#8230;I made it through (not around, <i>through<\/i>) Washington, D.C. around 11am, <i>through&nbsp;<\/i>Baltimore around 12pm, and <i>through&nbsp;<\/i>Wilmington, DE around 2pm. &nbsp;I crossed the Verrazano Narrows Bridge just before 4pm&#8230;which is about when the traffic started getting bad.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eufaula,_Alabama\">Eufaula, Alabama<\/a>. &nbsp;That&#8217;s for when I&#8217;m awake&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First I&#8217;ll greet you with this super cool picture: This is why it&#8217;s wonderful to own a Toyota Prius! Yesterday and today I drove up to Long Island to pick up our boys from Dave&#8217;s parents&#8217; house. &nbsp;Since it was a quick trip and could pack lightly, I was able to take our Prius, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[],"tags":[23,163,37],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-a2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":623,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/08\/road-trip-ii-2011-technology-can-make-those-long-drives-interesting.html","url_meta":{"origin":622,"position":0},"title":"Road Trip II 2011: Technology Can Make Those Long Drives Interesting!","date":"03 August 11","format":false,"excerpt":"I have a geeky obsession.\"Say it ain't so Major Mom!\"We have a 2006 Toyota Prius, which we absolutely LOVE! \u00a0Sometimes Dave and I wish we had a Mustang instead for the coolness factor, but the practical side of us really appreciates having this car! \u00a0All the techno-gadgetry is a Geek\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"geek\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-iARmbjYqZv8\/TjiglSuwiHI\/AAAAAAABYsw\/uUwGZ-TxQrE\/s640\/IMG_5379.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":358,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2009\/06\/road-trip-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":622,"position":1},"title":"ROAD TRIP!","date":"12 June 09","format":false,"excerpt":"Tomorrow morning we leave on vacation.\"Whoo hoo! 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