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Anti-Sway bar and ignition tune up

Finally

Traveling - after log

The 2ZZ spyder was one hell of a car. I sat at 80 mph for hours on end. Then she gave me speeds that would get me put in jail in some parts of the country. And to all the pussies that complain that the Spyder is not a car that you can travel with because it does not have room for their tampons, well they just don't know shit! I hauled two weeks worth of clothing in two duffle bags, DSLR camera bag, Dell projector, 3 sets of shoes, a few bags worth of trinkets for the kiddies, spare tire, tools kit, gallon of prestone coolant, gallon of prestone windshield washer fluid, two quarts of Castrol Titanium something or another oil, 100CDs in case, small ice chest for cold drinks, three bags of pretzels and a few bags of doritos. Sleeping bag, and a 6'x6' blanket. And my computer bag. and I still had room if I needed it. When I was in my twenties I traveled across the USA a lot between Bradford Pa and Phoenix / San Diego. It was a lot easier back then. I would drive from Bradf...

Totals for the trip

$751.24 spent on fuel 193.036 gallons of gas used 6074.9 miles (actual was 6097.4 as I forgot to reset the trip meter a few miles in a couple of times. I left Trip B on for the whole trip which got the higher number. My totals were gathered from my blog postings.) and I managed 31.47 mpg on the whole trip.

Last fuel

144.5 miles $16.38 4.245 gallons I made it!!!  I love my toyota mr2! 10 years old and not even a hickup! 6097.4 miles! 10 more mile til I am home

Wytheville Fuel stop

245.5 miles $27.08 7.402 gallons weather is much cooler. Car seems to have a lot more power in these conditions.

Tennessee fuel number two

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262.0 miles $30.53 8.014 gallons