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<\/p>\n(Originally posted on the website Continuum…)<\/p>\n
Going to work… again…..<\/p>\n
But I got to thinking…<\/p>\n
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For the past 25 years, I have worked in the same general area, an average of 30 miles from the area in which I have lived.<\/p>\n
So, figuring that I have worked an average of 250 days per year for 25 years, and driven an average of 60 miles round trip per day, the grand total of miles I have driven in the last 25 years (just for work) comes out to 375,000 miles!<\/p>\n
Figuring on a reasonable average of 30 miles per gallon for gas mileage on my vehicles over the years, I have consumed 12,500 gallons of gas in driving to and from work. That translates into a lot of money!<\/p>\n
If I had kept driving straight for those 375,000 miles, I could have driven completely around the world just over 15 times! Just think of all the sights I could have seen and the people I could have met!<\/p>\n
If I had decided to drive to the moon, I could have made it there and just about 3\/4 of the way back! With enough velocity, I could have coasted the last 55,000 or so miles.<\/p>\n
Or… I could have driven to the moon and encircled the entire place 15 times and then just sat down and enjoyed the view.<\/p>\n
If I had decided to drive to Mars, at the rate of 375,000 miles every 25 years, it would have taken me 9,333 and 1\/4 years. Provided my car could have lasted over the journey and I had another 25 years to live and drive, I could have then traveled completely around Mars 28 and 1\/4 times.<\/p>\n
However… necessity demands that I continue driving the same worn out path to and from work… over and over… year after year.<\/p>\n
Necessity is the executioner of so much exploration and discovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(Originally posted on the website Continuum…) Going to work… again….. But I got to thinking… For the past 25 years, I have worked in the same general area, an average of 30 miles from the area in which I have lived. So, figuring that I have worked an average of 250 days per year for … Continue reading “375,000 Miles”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-continuum","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5278,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277\/revisions\/5278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}