Awesome Rick, glad your son is getting into it too.
I'll read the blog and spend more time with the photos tomorrow. I like how
you have your Blog & photos set up for us to enjoy.
Have fun, Lin
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 5:20 AM, Rick Bastedo <rbastedo at gmail.com> wrote:
> We made it at last at about 9:30pm last night.
> My son Peter and I started out last Friday, averaging a little more than
> 500
> miles per day.
> The Frogeye Midget ran great, while driving safe and sane around 60 mph it
> got great mileage.
> From 37 mpg to 40 mpg.
> When driving a 'bit' more spirited it dropped below 30 mpg.
> Like one time yesterday when we had to pull off for a "Dad we have to stop
> -
> NOW" break.
> I pulled off onto an exit that had no onramp back onto the freeway.
> The emergency dealt with then the question was - how to get back on the
> road?
> Peter suggested "you can back up".
> So we did and then had to drive a bit more spirited than usual to catch up
> to the other cars.
> We were traveling with BillM, KurtA and MikeB.
> I'm not saying how fast we went, but it wasn't faster than I felt safe per
> the road conditions.
> After checking in we went over to the Lake Street Cafe and had dinner, I
> had
> a local brew and Peter had Root Beer on tap from the same brewery. We met
> PeterC and Dave Lieb and several others there, all sitting at a long table
> right up front talking LBC smack.
> It was GREAT!
>
> Here is our blog and Picasa site:
>
> http://frogeyemidget.blogspot.com/
> https://picasaweb.google.com/rbastedo
>
> Rick & Peter Bastedo
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