John,

 I see now that you misunderstood what his intentions were, and agree that a round trip would not be worth it.  As for how I could read your response and not comprehend that you misread his situation,.I thought that the original quiry was pretty clear, and as I do not know you, assumed that either your math was off, or you were of the sort that does not adventure far from home.  I responded not with the intent of creating conflict or offending you, but to clarify the math involved in such an endeavor, one that I feel is worth doing.

No offense intended, and hopefully none taken.

Mark in AK

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming  -  somebody please go break something so that we will have something to discuss : )

----- Original Message -----
From: Anonymous Digest <jbrush@AROS.NET>
Date: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 3:44 pm
Subject: Re: 2 weeks enough to cross country - w/kids?

> In <41b62e30a37d.424191da@gci.net>, on 03/23/05
>   at 03:57 PM, Mark Tuovinen <mst@AK.NET> said:
>
> >RE:  " Your gas costs will exceed exceed $700,"
>
> >Via what route would this be?  Assuming 3000 miles at a reasonably
> >conservative 15mpg you will use 200 gallons, is gas really $3.50 per
> >gallon down there?
>
> >Re:   "3000+ miles, about 96 hours behind the wheel, and if you
> don't get
> >> about 9 hours a day, you won't make it out and back in time for
> work. "
>
> >3000 miles divided by 96hrs equals 31.25 average speed, even a
> vanagon>can do better then that.  Since it is not stated exaclty
> where the
> >starting and ending locations are, I choose to calculate from
> Seattle to
> >Fall River, approx. 3,100 miles.  If you only drove 400 miles per
> day for
> >eight days you would have six full days left over to cover
> getting to the
> >west coast, out fitting the van, sight seeing, etc.
>
> Are you really unable to see that I mistakenly thought he was talking
> about driving out and driving back. My math is correct, but I
> assumed a
> round trip drive. If it is a fly out, drive back, I say do it.
>
> How can you read what I wrote and not see that I just misread his
> intentions? I gotta get a new hobby.....
>
> John
>