Gas prices expected to peak in June
Posted on May 7, 2008
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The New York Times reports the government says it expects gasoline prices to peak at a national average of $3.73 a gallon in June.
Although one point of our trip is to go slow, there are days when it’s necessary to log some miles. Like in Canada and Alaska. In June, of course.
We’re going anyway - you could too
Posted on May 1, 2008
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When we started talking about this trip four years ago gas was less than half of what it costs today and the Euro was less than $1.20.
Everything has gotten more expensive, but we are going anyway. We’ll just do a little more work during the course of the trip than we originally planned, and certainly more work to pay off bills when we get home.
I’ve had scores of conversations in recent weeks where the other person says, “I’d love to do that but I . . .” (couldn’t deal with home school) or (am waiting for better exchange rates) or (couldn’t live a year in a 120 square foot box) or whatever.
And every time I say the same thing: “You could do it too.” I am reminded of 17 years ago when we quit our “real” newspapers jobs to travel and freelance. None of our soon-to-be-former colleagues could imagine leaving the benefits, particularly health insurance. Well, it’s another bill you pay. It wasn’t really “free” to begin with.
And that’s why we’re with Obama in thinking that cutting the gas tax for the summer is short-sighted. We’d save more than you, and we say don’t do it.
As funny as this T-shirt featured today at Shirts on Sale is even beer prices are going up. And a half gallon growler at any of our local breweries still costs more than a gallon of gas — in the $3.38 to $3.50 range for regular in these parts this morning.
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To meme or not to meme; honoring the tag
Posted on April 30, 2008
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Mark Silva tagged me with this 4×4 meme, pointing to our Beer Travelers site. Since I don’t expect to be adding much there before we hit the road and I need to kick start this blog here goes . . .
The premise is to share things about yourself that others may not know by picking four categories and providing four answers per category (this is sort of a master list, although I paid no attention to it). So no beer here, and probably not any green chile or stinky cheese; those predispositions are revealed well enough elsewhere.
Four things I don’t care for
1. Republican presidents
2. Being late
3. Fast food chains
4. Interstate highways
Four writers who changed journalism for me
1. Haynes Johnson
2. Hunter Thompson
3. Michael Herr
4. Frank Deford
Four musicians I wish I’d seen
1. Woody Guthrie
2. Townes Van Zandt
3. Sam Cooke
4. Buddy Holly
Four places I plan to visit in the next 15 months
1. Poperinge, Belgium
2. Yellowstone National Park
3. Paris, Texas
4. Dubrovnik, Croatia
And the final task is tagging four more bloggers: Jack Curtin, Josh Mishell, Alan McLeod and Maggie Dutton.
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