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This page is to document my trip around the USA (mostly the Western part) in the summer of 2004. I am updating the page when I can as I travel, hopefully every day or two. I am currently in Berlin, NJ, and have all the pictures and maps updated.

You can access some of my favorite pictures here (not updated recently, I will get around to it sooner or later).

The current travel schedule is this:

		Description	Pictures	Updated
Day 1	05/22/2004	Drive from Berlin, NJ to Rockford, IL	23	05/22/2004
Day 2	05/23/2004	Drive from Rockford, IL to Rapid City, SD	145	05/23/2004
Day 3	05/24/2004	Black Hills stuff	170	05/24/2004
Day 4	05/25/2004	Drive from Rapid City, SD to Yellowstone National Park (WY)	64	05/28/2004
Day 5	05/26/2004	Do stuff in Yellowstone	102	05/28/2004
Day 6	05/27/2004	Do stuff in Yellowstone	49	05/28/2004
Day 7	05/28/2004	Drive from Yellowstone to Washington	18	05/29/2004
Day 8	05/29/2004	Do stuff in Washington	27	05/30/2004
Day 9	05/30/2004	Do stuff in Washington	53	05/30/2004
Day 10	05/31/2004	Drive to Northern California	22	05/31/2004
Day 11	06/01/2004	Drive to Sequoia National Park	23	06/01/2004
Day 12	06/02/2004	Do stuff in Sequoia National Park	90	06/03/2004
Day 13	06/03/2004	Do stuff in Sequoia National Park	37	06/03/2004
Day 14	06/04/2004	Drive to Las Vegas	8	06/04/2004
Day 15	06/05/2004	Visit Hoover Dam, drive to Flagstaff	70	06/06/2004
Day 16	06/06/2004	Visit Grand Canyon (South Rim)	68	06/07/2004
Day 17	06/07/2004	Drive to Cortez, CO	68	06/08/2004
Day 18	06/08/2004	Visit Mesa Verde and Four Corners.	70	06/09/2004
Day 19	06/09/2004	Drive to Boulder, CO	31	06/09/2004
Day 20	06/10/2004	Drive to Nebraska	9	06/10/2004
Day 21	06/11/2004	Drive to Michigan	3	06/13/2004
Day 22	06/12/2004	Drive to New Jersey	3	06/13/2004
Day 23	06/13/2004	Drive to New Jersey Shore	8	06/13/2004

You can click on the day number to go to a page specific to that day, including pictures.

Some basic statistics so far (updated 06/13/2004):

Distance driven:	10937 miles
Highest point:	12193 feet
States driven:	21 (NJ, PA, OH, IN, IL, MN, WI, SD, WY, MT, ID, WA, OR, CA, NV, AZ, NM, CO, UT, NE, IA)
Gas used:	402 gallons
Average MPG	26.9
Pictures taken:	3070 (1160 available on these pages)

I got really bad mileage in the midwest, as low as 22.7 MPG on one refill in Minnesota. This could have been from a number of things, I was driving fairly fast (75-85 mph), which might not be as efficient due to drag. The weather was often windy, which would require more power to go the same speed, and I think the gas was 10% ethanol, which could have effected performance. Mileage shot up to 27-30 MPG for Washington, Oregon, and northern CA. It droped down again in Sequoia, but has been creeping up slowly in the Southwest.