50k
50,000. Miles on the Tahoe.
50,000. Gray hairs I gained from Flossie's children in the past three hours.
The challenges of travel with two mobile, inquisitive younglings has been a...good experience ? The back seat looks like Nora the Tasmainian Devil struck...oh, wait...she did.
We stopped at the west end of Glenns Ferry for snacks, a couple westbounds, and sticking out our tongues in the rain. I do not know where these kids pickup these things 
.
We are cruising on I-86, about 20 miles outside of Pocatello. We will head east out of Pokey, then pickup US-30 and head over to Soda Springs, where we will then head north on our way to Jackson.
Both kids are napping now...ahhh my sanity slowly returns.
Cursed ?
We stopped in Beaver to use the restroom, and the gas station happened to have a tire shop. One of the techs happened to walk by and noticed the left front tire had a problem. An hour later, we were back on the road with four new tires. I had been planning on new tires this summer as we will hit 50,000 miles on the Tahoe soon, but the front tires both had the tread separate and expose the belt.
Shoving Off
We arrived in Panguitch around 8 last night after a pleasant drive from Sandy. We tried dinner at a Subway an hour earlier with mixed results with the kids. Nora looks to have picked up pink eye from daycare, as her right eye goobered all afternoon and evening. She finally napped about 20 minutes from Panguitch, so we unpacked the crib and plopped her in -- one kid snoozin, one to go.
Tyler was a different story. At 11:30 I finally went to bed with him still awake, although checking on Nora a bit later, he was out.
We awoke around 8, cleaned up Nora'd goobers and ate a hearty meal at the Flying M cafe. Tyler ordered 13 (2) eggs and ate them all, plus most of a huge pancake.
The drive this morning has been beautiful, although Nora's eye has been bothering her some.
Departure
We pulled out of garage at 08:34, heading over to drop Eros off at the doggie hotel (Ralph and Nicademous have a babysitter -- Sabrina -- and her canine/feline pals Oliver n Sherman). We zigged south toward Kuna, then east to I-84 under rain showers, with ~50 degree temps.
We stopped in Mountain Home for fuel, getting back on the road shortly after 10:00. Roughly 600 miles to cover to reach our destination today -- Panguitch, Utah. Tommorrow, we jet down to Flagstaff, Aeizona where we run into my family for my cousin's graduation from NAU.
The Price of Fuel
I had a stack of receipts hanging around for months, and finally got around to updating my fuel tracking spreadsheet for the Tahoe. Rather interesting to watch the price of fuel plummet in 2H '08. The last two tanks in the Tahoe have an Albertson's discount applied due to our preferred card. Oddly enough, diesel was still hovering around $2.80 in mid December, almost double the cost of regulary unleaded, but has come down to the $2.20 range lately.
| Date | Location | Gallons | Price Per Gallon | Total Cost | Trip Miles | Odometer | Hour Meter |
| 7/24/2008 | Shell - Idaho Springs, CO | 19.31 | $4.10 | $79.15 | 378 | 42535 | 1329.1 |
| 7/25/2008 | Exxon - Kimball, NE | 15.097 | $4.16 | $62.79 | 270 | 42805 | 1335.4 |
| 7/27/2008 | Exxon - Cheyenne, WY | 19.344 | $3.84 | $74.26 | 372 | 43177 | 1341.7 |
| 7/28/2008 | Pilot - Evanston, WY | 19.022 | $3.94 | $75.00 | 371 | 43548 | |
| 7/29/2008 | Exxon - Twin Falls, ID | 14.8 | $5.02 | $74.24 | 280 | 43828 | 1351.9 |
| 8/29/2008 | Stinker - Boise, ID | 22.136 | $3.86 | $85.42 | 322 | 44150 | 1365.2 |
| 10/1/2008 | Albertson's Express - Boise, ID | 22.371 | $3.65 | $81.63 | 297 | 44447 | 1380.2 |
| 11/8/2008 | Albertson's Express - Boise, ID | 22.274 | $2.37 | $52.77 | 278 | 44725 | 1396.3 |
| 11/26/2008 | Shell - Boise, ID | 21.637 | $1.90 | $41.09 | 278 | 45003 | 1412.0 |
| 12/21/2008 | Albertson's Express - Boise, ID | 19.675 | $0.89 | $17.49 | 258 | 45261 | 1426.4 |
| 1/3/2009 | Albertson's Express - Boise, ID | 17.198 | $1.23 | $21.14 | 230 | 45491 | 1438.0 |
I dug back through the various records I have kept, and seems like 1999 was the cheapest year on record, although I always put premium in my '87 Firebird, so it is about 20-30 cents higher than regular:
| Date | Odometer | Location | Type | Gallons | Price Per Gallon |
| 2/14/1999 | 26595 | Pine Bluffs - Ampride | Unleaded | 12.66 | $0.79 |
| 2/19/1999 | 26850 | Lusk - Conocco | Unleaded | 9.90 | $0.91 |
| 2/21/1999 | 26939 | Chadron - Big Bats | Unleaded | 3.81 | $1.05 |
| 2/26/1999 | 27217 | Laramie - Coastal | Unleaded | 10.77 | $0.78 |
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