Month: October 2019

To those of you who know me, know that I am normally a very private guy. I am not one to usually make public posts, or share my personal thoughts in such a public setting. However, I felt making a blog like this would be the best medium to share pictures, and update my friends and families on how my road trip has progressed. Now that the trip has concluded, I see no need to continue to write in this blog post. I will keep it alive to share with my friends, however, it will be “tomb stoned” for the foreseeable future.

At this time, I would like to take the opportunity to thank the following friends and families members in no particular order.

My Mother – for putting up with sitting next to me for 50+ hours driving to Vancouver. I am grateful for having the privilege to share such an amazing experience with my Mom. I would’ve loved to drive more family members, however, there wasn’t enough room in my car! LOL

My Brother and Sister in Law – for hosting me and putting up with me for my duration, even at such a stressful time in your family.

My Nephew – for being my excuse to come visit you again! You have amazing timing! I can’t wait to meet you in real life.

Josh, John, and Olivia – thank you for such an amazing experience in assisting me in the purchase of my dream car. I can not imagine a more perfect vehicle for making this amazing dream road trip.

Bud, Bret, and Gabe – for introducing me to the amazing world of cars. You guys taught me that a car is more than just a tool to take you from point A to point B. You three are directly responsible for the fact that I will never drive an automatic vehicle ever again!

Ed Bolian – Chances are you will never see this. You taught me that memories created driving a vehicle is worth infinitely more than the resale value of the vehicle itself. Though I lack the deep pockets required to drive in such a reckless fashion as you did for the Canonball events, know that you are a big inspiration and directly responsible in encouraging me to enact in such a crazy goal!

You – for reading my tiny little blog. All both of you. I hope you enjoyed following my dream.

So with that said, I must bid everyone goodbye. This concludes our broadcast day. beeeeeeeep

Here are the technical stats I have compiled for the road trip. I tried to keep as much significant digits as possible to minimize rounding errors.

Total Dates	2019-08-23 to 2019-10-01 (39 days)
KM Traveled	11 202
KM/L	12.49946998
MPG (Converted) (combined)	29.40062832
MPG (Converted) (highway)	30.59802
MPG (Converted) (City)	22.20564
Fuel Consumed (L)	896.201
Fuel Total Cost (Canadian Pesos)	$1,269.45
$/KM	$0.1133235136

According to Subaru, the BRZ has 29MPG Highway, and 21MPG City. I have visited the pump a total of 29 times! If you are interested in seeing the full spreadsheet of how I created these numbers, please let me know and I will post a PDF.

I arrived back home last night around 7:00PM EST. I took a nice long hot shower, and literally crashed. I did not wake up until 5PM local time!

I just finished stripping the car of all the luggage, and loaded up the washing machine with the dirty laundry. This is going to be a long night!

Oh and the funny story that happened to my two nights ago! I arrived at Sault St Marie around 7PM localtime. I have a quick dinner, unwind, and pull out my phone like I always did to begin booking for a hotel room for the night. Oh, that’s odd, nothing is available except for this really sketchy motel inn 20 minutes away for way too much than rack rate! Same goes for the rest of the week! What’s going on? I drive straight to the hotel I stayed on my trip to Vancouver, and walk in to ask for vacancy. Apparently, this was prime tourist season for some conference that is happening in town!

The next closest major city Sudbury was about 3 hours away. It was raining hard, very foggy, and I was too fatigued to make that drive. Luckily, the weather was in the mid-teens, so I did the next best thing. I found a local 24 hour Tim Hortons, and slept in my car for the night. The firm Alcantara seats might have been very well suited for confident driving experience, but left a lot to be desired as a sleeping solution. Somehow my mother was able to sleep quite comfortably throughout the trip there!

I didn’t want to write about this experience until I was home for fear of jinxing things, but luckily the remainder of the trip was relatively uneventful.

I originally did not intend to leave so close to the winter season. Unfortunately, baby refused to come out, and I gambled a bit too close! I hope to make this trip again, however, next time I won’t leave things so close to the tip! With that said, the entire trip was amazing. I got to know my car very well, and the drive to Vancouver was phenomenal. Even with the several setbacks that occurred during my return trip, I still had a very enjoyable time overall. Despite the occasional setbacks, I have every intention to make road trips like this again!

I will be posting a final blog entry within the net few days talking about the technical and logistical details of this trip.