Mileage

I had this idea to estimate how many miles we've driven and would drive this summer. So:

Chapel Hill, NC to Marlton, NJ: 430
Around Utah and Arizona: approximately 2000
Marlton, NJ to Ocean City, NJ (RT): 110
Marlton, NJ to Washington, DC (RT): 300
Marlton, NJ to Carmel, IN: 715
Carmel, IN to Chicago (RT): 360
Carmel, IN to Chapel Hill NC: 665
Chapel Hill NC to Palo Alto, CA: 2810

Grand Total: 7390 miles driven.

Can you conceive of what 7390 miles is? Imagine this: get in your car in Philadelphia and start driving. If you head easterly, you can make it to cities like Algiers and Rome. Start off going south, and you could make it to Rio de Janeiro.

Of course, this is dependent on your go-go-gadget wheels, and driving on water, but still: I could be stuffing my face with gelato now for the distances I've been traveling.

Now, if you consider the fact that Kevin and I will be driving to California separately, and thus count the drive twice, you arrive at a new total of 10200 miles.

Is it a coincidence that this is almost exactly the same distance between Washington DC and Brazzaville, Republic of Congo?

I think not.