GMC Motor Home, Travel with Teri and Dan

Home Again

Teri and I drove home from Detroit Wednesday. Was a good ride. We hit a rain storm just north of Cairo. Also took a 10 mile detour just north of Benton, Il. On our way up we saw that they were working on the southbound lane. Traffic was coming to a dead stop and was backed up for almost ten miles. We had the gps so we plotted our way around it. Worked great. As we traveled south we could see the traffic stopped dead on the interstate.
We did a little fuel milage checking on this trip home. We are retired so why should we be in a hurry? The advertized mileage on the Vibe is 30 mpg hiway. I knew I could beat that by a long ways. We have a scangauge on the Vibe. It calculates a lot of measurements and will help the driver save fuel by watching how he or she drives. From the Mi/In state line we drove 64.5 mph without air conditioning. Did not need it as it was cool. Drove to Terre Haute that way, right through Indy. We got 37 mpg. Filled up at Terre Haute and turned the ac on. Dropped the speed to 62. We got 35 mpg on the button. Those are good figures. I do wish it would get that kind of mileage at 70 mph but it will not. What a difference a few mph makes on this car. I enjoy driving for mileage but do not like all those folks passing me.
On the motorhome we have no computer so I drive using a vacuum gauge. That is a great way to optimize fuel mileage on an older vehicle, especially a motorhome.
Well, that's about it from here. Was a great trip and we got in a lot of very good visiting. Hope to take another ride somewhere very soon so stay tuned. Thanks for the visit. We always enjoy company.
Dan

posted by Dan & Teri Gregg @ 9:25 PM