We didn't take the motor cycle down but once we he hit Highway 1 we kind of wish we did!
We started out Wednesday night around 6pm after Tara got off work. Planned to go through the night for our "13.5 hour" drive (or so mapquest said!)We started tracking our mileage and mpg on our itouch after Steve filled up our tank.
We got ourselves to San Jose, Ca at 6am where we stopped at Denny's. According to Mapquest... we should have been just an 1.5 hours away from home! -- Oh well! At this point we had spent $50 on gas and traveled 500 miles putting us at roughly 31.22mpg. We decided to take a detour off of the 5 interstate and head over to the Highway 1 for the scenic route!
Highway 1 provided us with ample curves and turns that made Steve want to come down here again with his motorcycle to ride (on possibly a bigger motorcycle)! Many of the pictures in our slide show are from this part of the drive. We stopped in Sand City (near Seaside) and stopped on the beach for a bit. I got a call from a co-worker who was asking me if I was going to be at a meeting on Thursday morning - I sent him a text with a picture of me and Steve on the beach and hoped he got the message.
We stopped on the beach near San Simeon to see the Elephant seals. They were so huge and loud! And smelly! They were in the middle of molting season and I caught a couple of males jostling for position on the beach and in the water.
Highway 1 should have taken us approximately 4.5 hours to get to my mom's house. We ended up arriving at 1:30pm to Grover Beach. Having filled up another 3 times for a total of 323 more miles at $29.75.
Once we arrived we were greeted by my mom, gromit and fatties Pizza (Which was delicious)! We stuck around my mom's house for a bit and then headed out to dinner with my grandmother. We ate at F.McLintocks (Yum).
The Plan for the weekend was for us to meet up for Lunch with my mom and brother (we ate at Huckleberry's - a southern restaurant)and then to see Iron Man 2. Pretty good movie!
Saturday we headed to the Strawberry Festival in Old town Arroyo Grande - Which sadly has been commercialized pretty extremely! I didn't see hardly any strawberry themed items!!! Shoot!
We headed back to Newberg after dinner at the Olive Garden with My mom and Brother (Sean's Treat!) at about 9:40pm. We traveled 174miles between our last fill up and leaving Grover Beach. Which pulled our mpg down to 26.76.
The ride back to Oregon was uneventful - except for a stop off at the Rogue River Cafe which was a cute little spot to have biscuits and gravy and french toast.
Total miles back was 605 at the time of last refuel (we haven't had to refuel it since we got back yet) for a trip back cost of 54.78.
Our total trip miles was 1613 Miles using approximately 51.94 gallons - roughly $.098 per mile a total of 31.06 miles per gallon.
Steve drove 31 hours out of the total 37 hours. What an amazing guy! Glad we headed back on Saturday night cause he needed all of Monday to recoup!
Enjoy the slide show!
