New England Trip
Thursday, July 31, 2008
The total miles traveled, not counting local trips
with the
Acura and ferry miles was 4,179. Excluding
the 284 miles from our last fill-up in Virginia to home, we used 487
gallons of
gas at an average cost of $4.23 per gallon for a total gas cost of
$2,059. Our overall miles per gallon was 7.99. While this was expensive, round trip airfare
to Nova Scotia for the two of us could cost about $2,600.
Travel by car would have only cost about $800
in gas but meals and hotel rooms would have been much more expensive –
and we
would have had to board our cat and dog for a month (not an option).
Steve went to his doctor in Hartwell this
afternoon and the
tentative diagnosis was Legionnaires Disease – most likely contracted
on the
Canadian side of Niagara Falls. We went
to a somewhat incomprehensible attraction called “Niagara’s Fury – The
Creation
of the Falls” that included man-made mist/fog in a dark room filled
with people
– a prime means of bacteria growth and transmission. The
doctor prescribed a 5 day course of
antibiotics. It seems that Steve has
been walking around with a case of pneumonia for the last month.
We hope you enjoyed our blog. We will now look
for some way to save it off line for our own memories.
Steve and Margaret
