Headwind/Tailwind

[shatto]

One Job Day: 673 Miles
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Vehicle mileage between fill up is in the center, trip mileage on the left.
One tank of gas, from Woodland to Etna and Redding.
MPG is on the right. The upper number is the adjustment for larger diameter than stock tires.

Northbound on I-5 usually features a headwind. Now, because of El Nino, the winds are flag stiffening stronghttps://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-jjzK6ZIDX3k/Tva8wjxbYxI/AAAAAAAAIak/sOY0FkRlXck/s720/DSC02408.JPG
and the drag drastically lowers mileage, but it improves a bit going south.

December 21, 2011.
I began my day in Concord, California. Drove, in the morning fog https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-wHcD2VFAQFc/Tva8JEHPU_I/AAAAAAAAIag/fTNyjJQRg-M/s720/DSC02384.JPG
to the California Sierra Express truck depot in West Sacramento then proceeded to motor north, way north, through the fields that provide much of the worlds rice.https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-vaurZN-vCQI/TvYqqn01QdI/AAAAAAAAIac/n9WN8b1cYC8/s720/DSC02337.JPG
past Redding, Shasta Lake
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and Dunsmuir and Mount Shasta
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to Yreka where I finally turned off I-5 and headed to Etna, the town, village, widening of the road
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and delivered the massage chair,
sliding it from my Tundra into the bed of the customers Tundra so he could take it up to the ranch.

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This country is where they grow those truckloads of hay we get behind and get pieces of straw stuck in the wipers and radiator.
Then I drove home.
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A 673 mile day.
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Here's the map:
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[SgtJim]

awesome work Shatto!
really nice and interest photos
thx for sharing your private matters and feelings :D


ps.:
3.229/gallon in Vallejo is a really good price....for me
in my(?) country currently the simple unleaded is around 8-10USD/gallon
if i re-calculate and changing gallon-litre, huf-usd