On the road again (homeward bound)
Nov. 25th, 2006 12:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqIn spite of my concerns at the Ohio end of the trip, the car seems to be holding up -- though I'm reserving the end of this post to voice a grievance I have with this car.
The gas gauge was on the red line as we were leaving![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
atara's parents, and we debated whether we would have enough gas to make it to one of the stations by the turnpike. The debate was quickly answered when the "fuel low" light came on a mile down the road. It's a good thing it came on when it did, because that was the last station before the next town. O.o
If there is one word that can describe the long drive from Ohio to Winnipeg, it is long; it's about 1300 miles by the route we take. Fortunately we were fairly fresh when we hit the road this morning and we manage to put close to 900 of those behind us. If we get a decently early start tomorrow it might still be light by the time we get home (but I'm not counting on it). I must go now - I feel a coma coming on.
Oh wait - the car rant. I don't know how common a feature this is in cars, but the gas gauge in my car is not linear. I have always noticed that the lower it gets, the faster it goes down. We stopped for gas earlier today when the needle had just hit the 1/2 point, and the car took just under 10 gallons to fill. It's a 13 gallon tank, do the math. When the needle gets to the halfway mark, my tank is almost 5/6 drained. It's no wonder I sometimes have trouble figuring out how much farther I can go as the needle drops. =/
The gas gauge was on the red line as we were leaving
atara's parents, and we debated whether we would have enough gas to make it to one of the stations by the turnpike. The debate was quickly answered when the "fuel low" light came on a mile down the road. It's a good thing it came on when it did, because that was the last station before the next town. O.oIf there is one word that can describe the long drive from Ohio to Winnipeg, it is long; it's about 1300 miles by the route we take. Fortunately we were fairly fresh when we hit the road this morning and we manage to put close to 900 of those behind us. If we get a decently early start tomorrow it might still be light by the time we get home (but I'm not counting on it). I must go now - I feel a coma coming on.
Oh wait - the car rant. I don't know how common a feature this is in cars, but the gas gauge in my car is not linear. I have always noticed that the lower it gets, the faster it goes down. We stopped for gas earlier today when the needle had just hit the 1/2 point, and the car took just under 10 gallons to fill. It's a 13 gallon tank, do the math. When the needle gets to the halfway mark, my tank is almost 5/6 drained. It's no wonder I sometimes have trouble figuring out how much farther I can go as the needle drops. =/
