PACIFIC NORTHWEST, Wash. -- So we tacked a solid 1,200 miles on the Tonka --er, Toyota FJ Cruiser yesterday and find ourselves in a constant rainshower with no hotel rooms in sight. Seattle at last.
In the past 24 hours the FJ has:
--Played some 14 hours of iPod hits
--Delivered Tigers, White Sox, Yankees and Dodger games to our ears via XM
--Broken the 10,000 mile mark (Congrats!)
--Been gawked at by nearly 10,000 people...
--Been sneered at by a woman leaving a urban farming project in downtown Portland.
--"Alarmed" early AM McDonald's patrons not once, not twice ...but thrice as the VIP alarm system detected our dog moving about inside before we learned to turn it off. (Little button below the radio. Gotcha.)
--Burned an insane amount of fuel. (One tank gets around 250 miles. Not quite 20 miles per gallon on pure highway, cruise control driving.)
--Slept two adults and one canine in the parking lot of the hotel where our reservation begins today...not yesterday. Everything hurts.
Mike Hudson, News Editor
10,073 miles
eriches says:
01:35 PM, 08/ 9/06
Mike, I want to see pictures of the three of you "sleeping" in the FJ.
trackwrex says:
02:32 PM, 08/ 9/06
Take that back Erin! LOL!
ktoepke says:
11:02 AM, 08/10/06
Great, first the FJ smelled like boy, and now it smells like news editor.