NINE

Single digits, baby! I said eleven yesterday, but in the recount it is actually only NINE! 'Cause you can't count the day we leave, can you? Sounds sww-weeeet! Nine days til we launch into the Great Adventure!

Dawn is feeling like she should be packing because that is what we always do the week before a big trip - fill the camper with food and clothes. Yesterday she said that next week at this time we will be packing our bags. Haha! Like, what's there to pack? She is so funny sometimes! It's a motorcycle, so we could through our stuff in our bags the night before, load the bike, and be on our way first thing Sunday morning. Wow, is that different!

You know what else is different? The price of gas! How is it that every year just before summer the prices begin to soar? Oh, believe me, I understand the fundamental principles of supply and demand, but it is ironic that the price of crude oil goes up one night and the price at the pump goes up the next day. There is no way that the cost of the crude effected the cost of the gas in the tank underground at the gas station the very next day!

The only good thing about it is that we are riding Black Beauty on this vacation and getting somewhere around 45 miles to the gallon and not our truck and camper combo which gets 10 mpg! Let's see, if we go 7000 miles getting 10 miles to the gallon, it would take 700 gallons. If gas is up to $3.00/gallon this summer, that would be $2100 just in gas! On the other hand, with Black Beauty going 7000 miles at 45 mpg = 155.55 gallons. $3.00 gas would then add up to $466.65, a fraction of the truck/camper cost! [Hope I didn't lose you with all that math!]

So, how do you spell excited? We spell it N-I-N-E

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