{"id":634,"date":"2012-02-25T19:03:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T02:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/?p=634"},"modified":"2012-02-27T08:22:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T15:22:54","slug":"high-mileage-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/high-mileage-people\/","title":{"rendered":"High mileage people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We drive a <strong>lot<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I keep a log book in both cars, entering gas fills and maintenance items such as oil and filter changes. I also keep track of mileage that I put on my motorcycle. Here are the numbers for all 3 vehicles from 2011:<\/p>\n<p>Pam&#8217;s Honda: On 1-3-2011 it had 225,893 miles on it. By 1-2-2012 it had gone to 252,571. That&#8217;s 26,678 miles.<\/p>\n<p>My Subaru: On 1-1-11 it had 49,903 miles on the odometer. By 12-30-2011 it registered 70,926 miles. Yep, 21,023 miles in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>My motorcycle has a 2nd odometer which I set to zero at the start of the year. It showed I had ridden \u00a07,247 miles in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Total miles for 2011: A whopping 54,948. That does not include short runs with the Scout II, which I used for going to the dump and pulling trailers on occasion. I don&#8217;t log the Scout as I do the other vehicles, but guess I ran it between 400 and 500 miles in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>That takes a lot of gasoline. And tires. And oil. And filters. And &#8230;you get the idea. We replaced 3 windshields last year, all broken by rocks thrown up by energy industry trucks. Our deductible is $100.00 per windshield.<\/p>\n<p>Believe me, we watch the price of gas going up with something approaching dismay. Most of the time Pam and I try to commute together, but this last week saw us with differing schedules so we ran a couple cars a few of the days. Fuel bill for the week: $108.65.<\/p>\n<p>Our commute is about 114 miles a day. Including the running of local errands, the average goes to around 120 miles a day. We live in the boonies: A grocery run \u00a0is 58 miles, round trip. On outing to a shopping center is even longer. Long trips account for some of the mileage; \u00a0I was back to Wisconsin a couple times in 2011, dealing with the aftermath of my father&#8217;s passing. Then there are the &#8220;land hunt&#8221; trips we take one or two weekends per month. It all adds up to a lot of driving and a lot of miles.<\/p>\n<p>We drive a<strong> lot.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now. Thanks for looking in!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We drive a lot. I keep a log book in both cars, entering gas fills and maintenance items such as oil and filter changes. I also keep track of mileage that I put on my motorcycle. Here are the numbers for all 3 vehicles from 2011: Pam&#8217;s Honda: On 1-3-2011 it had 225,893 miles on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}