College Tour - By the Numbers

I'm sorry that I didn't have time to post more while Christopher and I were on our college tour. To the right here is a photo of Christopher standing next to our car, which is parked right on the sand at the beach in Daytona Beach, FL. For all of the posted photos from our trip, please click here.

We had a GREAT time together, and were just too busy driving/touring to do many postings. Christopher commented that he was grateful for our relationship, because he didn't think he knew too many guys his age who would be excited to spend a week with his dad in a car. I was quick to point out to Christopher that that is probably due to the fact that I never matured beyond 16 years old, myself. He agreed, as I'm sure my readers will. :-)

I've always liked numbers, so here is a numerical summary of our trip:

• 9: Number of days traveling.
• 5,964: Total number of miles driven.
• 1,705: Total number of miles driven by Christopher.
• 645: The most miles driven by Christopher in a single day (the last day of our trip).
• 1,194: The most miles we drove in any given day (the first full day of our trip).
• $3.099: The cheapest gas (per gallon) we found on the trip. In Newton, Iowa. It's amazing what difference state taxes can make on gas prices. Forget big oil companies - it's the government that really profits from gasoline!!!
• $3.679: The most expensive gas we found on the trip. In Daytona Beach, Florida. Gas prices in Nebraska ran a close second in the most expensive gas category, followed by Georgia.
• 12: Number of states visited/passed through on our trip: ID, UT, WY, NE, IA, KS, MO, IL, KY, TN, GA, FL.
• 3: Number of states that Christopher had never been to prior this trip: KS, KY, TN.
• 1: Number of states that John have never been to prior this trip: KY.
• 8: Number of states in which Christopher had driven past a particular speed he had in mind (nothing not allowable by law, that's for sure - wink wink).
• 0: Number of speeding tickets (nor moving violations of any kind) on the trip.
• 1: Only one near accident, caused by a hapless truck driver. Christopher was driving at the time.
  
• 21: The number of miles left in our journey before said hapless truck driver nearly drove us off the road.
• 32,496: Estimated number of times son laughed at father's corny jokes.
• <3: Number of times those laughs were genuine.
• 98.4: The percentage of my readers who will feel that the stat listed directly above this is a number far too high.