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Mileage Tot-Up
Posted: Mon 19 July, 2010 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Domestic, Driving, Sociable, Travel |3 Comments »This month (as I’ve mentioned before) has been a bit of a hog when it comes to mileage done.
So far (and excluding the normal 350 miles per week for work/commuting) it’s involved…
- Down to Berkshire to drop off Hound – 300 mile round trip
- Odds and Sods for party organisation, ferrying stuff and the like – 50ish miles
- Across to Peterborough to collect Herself’s brother for the party weekend – 75 miles
- Down to Berkshire to collect Hound – 300 mile round trip
- Down to London to deliver Herself etc. for her break – 200 mile round trip
- Down to London to collect Herself etc. from her break – 200 mile round trip
- Up to Manchester and back – 600 mile round trip
That’s just over 1,700 miles this month. If you include the work commute, we go up to just over 3,100 miles.
I don’t mind the driving, it’s not resented or anything – for the most part it’s actually enjoyable (except for a small dollop of aquaplaning on the A1, but the less said about that the better) but it does amaze me on occasion just what kind of mileage I do knock up over time – although this July has been pretty excessive, even by my standards.
I probably need to check when the car’s due for its next service, don’t I?
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My commute mileage is a little higher but I don’t have those long trips as well.
I use this invention called ‘the train’. Saves adding miles and miles to your car (cost).
Well in context of “the train”…
Taking Hound by train is… impractical, to say the least
Collecting Herself’s brother by train was… impractical, to say the least. (Nearest station to home : 6miles. Nearest station to him : 4miles away. Nearest station to our final destination? 20+ miles)
Getting Herself to London by train could’ve been done, but with far more stress/hassle/transfers/luggage
Getting to Manchester from Bury St Edmunds is (again) doable but would take 2 hours longer, with three changes – and I’d still have to get to the Market-Town of the Damned after that
If the train were actually more practicable, I’d use it. It’s not, so I don’t/can’t.
Fairy muff, I forget that the trains down there aren’t like up here (fewer locations, so only a few lines, less changing)