Mileage Quest

Takin' a trip across I O A
Gonna see some corn pickers along the way
It's harvest time

Yup. I haven't made a trip outside the daily commute in the car since summer. This will be 300 miles or so, round trip. Hoping for 70+ MPG. Car is clean and ready, tires at 48.5 PSI. Playlist for today is Fork In The Road and Year of The Horse. You can't beat Big Time for road music. Should be a nice ride across Iowa to a meeting. Farmers are getting their crops out now. It's always cool to see a string of unlike Combines going down a road. It means farmers are working together to get each others crops out while the weather is right.

Anyway, I'm out!

Update: Pretty much blew out my mileage. I left late and ended up running 75 much of the way out. Trip average was still 63.4 MPG. Return trip was interesting. I stopped by a place I've driven by a hundred times. Never had time to stop until yesterday. I learned that it's official name is "Old Cars on the Hill", which is fitting, but I failed to photograph their sign. It's a farm and home of a collector in Iowa, visible from Interstate 80. A couple quick phone pics follow. Very cool place. The owner was out working in the fields but the nice lady in the house let me look around. It's peaceful walking among old iron. If only these cars could talk.