August 25, 2009
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Road Trippin’
Just one last post about my road trip. Here are some facts about my road trip:
- I drove 2565.1 miles from Saturday to Friday. Although it sounds like a lot, that’s an average of 427.51 per day. Or a little more than 7 hours of driving each day. Actually come to think of it, it is a lot of fuckin miles!
- I drove through parts of 10 states, IL, IN, MI, OH, KY, WV, PA, MD, VA and WI. I should point out, however, that I only drove briefly through Kentucky and Virginia because I was lost.
- Despite going through 10 states, I only drove through 2 state capitals, Madison, WI and Columbus, OH. And Madison wasn’t even part of the original main trip and had the Cleveland Indians played in Cleveland on Sunday, I wouldn’t have driven through Columbus at all. On last year’s trip I drove through 8 states and only 1 state capital.
- Bags of Rold Gold pretzel rods I ate: 1 1/2. Sure, that might not sound like much. But, keep in mind that I was the only person eating them. And it wasn’t one of those small vending machine bags, this was the normal sized bag with the long rods. Heh, heh, heh, I said long rods!
- Number of baseball parks I made it to: 4, Detroit, Cincinnati, Baltimore and Pittsburgh. It should have been 5.
- Total number of tickets sold to the games I was at: 86,396 (Detroit 37,276, Cincinnati 18,030, Baltimore 18,460, Pittsburgh 12,630). I was hoping to hit the 100,000 mark, which I would have hit had I made it to the Washington Nationals game. Still, it was an average of 21,599 at each park, which was not all that bad when you consider how bad the home teams were, as they are a combined 221wins and 274 losses on the season. And 3 of the teams are last place teams (to be fair though the Reds and Pirates are tied for last with each other).
- Total number of times I ate fast food: 0. I did eat at Quizno’s which some people consider fast food, but because it took longer for me to get my food then it would have at a normal sit down place, there is no way I can consider that fast food.
- Total number of pictures I took: 180, as opposed to last year when I took 0. I will attempt to post some of those pics now. Wish me luck. Or not. I guess it doesn’t matter because any luck you wish would be after the fact.
Ok, this really fuckin sucks. I switched from Mozilla to Explorer in the hopes that Explorer would allow me to add the pics. Nope!
Comments (2)
You didnt make it to the one in DC
how sad. So what restaurants did you eat at? Did you sit down and eat by yourself? I dont know if I could do that… Was it weird? What did you do?
I did eat by myself, but its not as bad as it seems. Most of the mornings I ate the free breakfast at the hotel. As for dinner, most of the time I ate at the ballpark as I always make a point to try food at any of the ballparks I go to, so it wasn’t like eating out at a restaurant. Unless it was at the ballpark, I read a book every time I ate.