We have arrived

After a wonderful pitstop with friends in Incline Village, Nevada we arrived yesterday in Sacramento. Our cross country trip averaged 29 mpg, 59 mph and covered 3554 miles in about 60 actual driving hours. The real travel time was longer of course, those stats are from when the engine was turned on.

The last third of the drive across Utah and Nevada was tiresome, just cold high desert with little scenery or things of interest.

The Acura handled things well and with the GPS, satellite radio, and mobile PDA internet we didn't have to do much planning. Most things could be arranged on the fly, whether rerouting for a traffic jam or changing plans for a hotel night.

Today I picked up the Corvette and brought that home. It will probably need to be retuned for the altitude here. It was calibrated for about 1000 feet of elevation in Vermont; we are lower here. The old carbureted systems cannot adjust automatically the way electronic fuel injected cars do nowadays. I am mildly thinking of getting transitorized ignition too -- it would make things more reliable. Although we should be able to use the vehicle more out here given the sunny warm weather most of the year. On the East Coast I had to put it away between Thanksgiving and Easter basically.