Slow Down!

[pardreamer]

What audiobooks do you have? I have "Hitch Hiker Guide to the Galaxy" and "The Davinci Code". Finished them all in two weeks.

Originally Posted by mountjonas

Yup. 5 days a week for me. Audiobooks keep me sane. I reset the info screen and logged 52.1mpg on the commute in. That's 97miles on the freeway (Avg 70mph) and 3 miles city driving.

[bwilson4web]

Originally Posted by subarutoo

60-65 just won't work in southern California. . . .

I suspect there are moving vans and heavy trucks that drive all day long at those speeds. It becomes just an art to see the pacing traffic . . . if you want to travel at 65 mph.

Originally Posted by subarutoo

. . . BTW I still get 50+ on my 90 mile R/T commute!

This is not just good enough, it is perfect! When you get the mileage you want, enjoy and move on to new problems.

Bob Wilson

[F8L]

Originally Posted by pardreamer

What audiobooks do you have? I have "Hitch Hiker Guide to the Galaxy" and "The Davinci Code". Finished them all in two weeks.

Commuters can whip through audiobooks like mad!

I average about 1 small book per week and I only commute 2 days/week. If it's a large book like The Omnivore's Dilemma or 1491 - New Revelations of the Americas Before... then it may take 2 weeks of commuting.

In the last month I did:

1491 - Charles C. Mann
A Sand County Almanac - Aldo Leopold
The Future of Life - Edward O. Wilson (E.O. Wilson to you ecology people)
Nature and Spirit - Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm starting on Karen Armstrong's "The Great Transformation: The Begginings of Our...
I'm addicted to audiobooks.

[mountjonas]

Originally Posted by bruceha_2000

You also need to do the reverse to account for elevation change.

definitely. I'm guessing it's about 7-10 mpg less on the way home. It seems like a long descent to LA and a slow climb back home. As long as I'm over the 40mpg mark going 70-75mph, it's all good.

Originally Posted by pardreamer

What audiobooks do you have? I have "Hitch Hiker Guide to the Galaxy" and "The Davinci Code". Finished them all in two weeks.

Nice! I just finished the Davinci code a few weeks ago and my friend just sent me Hitchhiker's Guide.

The first one I listened to was I Am Legend and right now I'm currently working my way through the Chronicles of Narnia while taking breaks to relearn spanish along the way with podcasts.

[pardreamer]

I bought the Davinci Code used and copied Hitch hiker from a friend. I wonder if the local library has any? Also, where can I download some?

Thanks,

Originally Posted by mountjonas

definitely. I'm guessing it's about 7-10 mpg less on the way home. It seems like a long descent to LA and a slow climb back home. As long as I'm over the 40mpg mark going 70-75mph, it's all good.



Nice! I just finished the Davinci code a few weeks ago and my friend just sent me Hitchhiker's Guide.

The first one I listened to was I Am Legend and right now I'm currently working my way through the Chronicles of Narnia while taking breaks to relearn spanish along the way with podcasts.

[DaveinOlyWA]

i dont do audio books, but i do do podcasts...

Sci-am (scientific American)
Science Friday (NPR News)
Bob Rivers (Northwest Talk Radio on KZOK... they have been around since the mid 80's....very cool)

free, plus short... many segments are anywhere from 10 to say 40 minutes. makes it easy to hear a segment start to finish. great way to keep up on a whole host of topics...

btw, if what i mentioned does not float your boat, i think you will find thousands of topics available... (i only do the free ones, if you want to pay for them, they have millions to choose from. a Mac is not required. podcasts can be installed and maintained on a PC...)

[Bill Merchant]

We're taking this way off topic, talking about audio books and podcasts. I go to the library, which has hundreds of audio books on CD, and import them into iTunes, then sync my iPod and have both audio books, podcasts, and music anytime I want. I noticed in iTunes you can set spoken word/audio books to be excluded from selection in shuffle mode, so I can listen to music without random book sections thrown in. You can also set them to "remember" the last play position, so you can pick up listening where you stopped last time.

Slow down and enjoy the audio book/podcast!

[Dngrsone]

Originally Posted by pardreamer

I bought the Davinci Code used and copied Hitch hiker from a friend. I wonder if the local library has any? Also, where can I download some?

Thanks,

Project Gutenberg

[mountjonas]

Originally Posted by mountjonas

... I reset the info screen and logged 52.1mpg on the commute in. That's 97miles on the freeway (Avg 70mph) and 3 miles city driving.

Originally Posted by bruceha_2000

You also need to do the reverse to account for elevation change.

Originally Posted by mountjonas

definitely. I'm guessing it's about 7-10 mpg less on the way home. It seems like a long descent to LA and a slow climb back home. As long as I'm over the 40mpg mark going 70-75mph, it's all good.

Reset the mfd last night and as I suspected, I got 42.3 mpg on the return trip. I didn't really make an attempt to get the best mileage, I just drove home averaging 70+mph. Nothing slower than 65 and nothing over 80. I'm happy. Between the two trips thats 47mpg going 70mph.

[bredekamp]

Originally Posted by Dngrsone

Well, running up to 70mph on my daily (35mile) commute yielded me a 42.7mpg average for a 10 day tank.

I am now topping out at 56mph and getting ~52mpg in the past week (in-town work has brought it down from 55mpg).

When I fill up, I plan on inflating the tires to 42/40 to see what the difference is.

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