Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Baseball HOF and gas

Today we went to the baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. Neither of us had been there before. Main street storefronts around the HOF go card store, memorabilia store, ice cream store, card store, gift shop, ice cream store...so as you could imagine the whole town is geared towards families willing to spend big bucks on their kids. The HOF itself was not exactly what I had expected, but we still enjoyed it. The "baseball experience" multimedia thingy was terrible though - probably the cheesiest movie I've ever had to sit through.

Today we filled up the tank at the tune of $161. Ugh. We calculated 8.3 mpg, which is a couple miles less than we had expected. We'll be trying to bring that ratio closer to 10 mpg by keeping the tires filled with air, getting our load lighter, slow acceleration, and choosing our routes wisely (which doesn't help mpg but helps our bottom line). If anyone has any other advice on reducing mpg in a big truck, please do tell.

Tonight we're staying at the Walmart in North Adams, Ma again on our way back to Waltham.

-Wax

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

omg! i know that walmart!!!

sweeet.



--lauren