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Archipelago Route

A roadtrip closer to home, around the archipelago route(http://www.archipelagoroute.com) Pargas-Nagu-Korpo-Houtskär-Iniö-Gustavs by car/ferry. Text/links/images to follow, for now pics from days 1-2 are on picasa: http://picasaweb.google.com/anders.e.e.wallin/ArchipelagoRoute2010August#

5 day California/Nevada/Arizona roadtrip

Day1: San Francisco - Yosemite National Park - Bakersfield. 412 miles, 49.8MPG (678 km, 4.72L/100km) Left San Francisco on 101/North in order to experience Golden Gate Bridge. There is no toll northbound, but if you want back into the city I think it costs 6$. Continuing north on 101 and then 580 east towards Richmond [...]

Pacific Coast Highway

Drove up California state route 1 from Santa Barbara to Morro bay, Monterey, and Santa Cruz before running out of daylight and switching to 101 for the rest of the way up to San Francisco. http://picasaweb.google.com/anders.e.e.wallin/PacificCoastHighway#

Kingman, LA, SB

After Grand Canyon we drove all the way to Kingman, AZ. On day 4 of the roadtrip the Prius rolled back west via Barstow, Victoville, San Bernardino, and towards the end a slow drive through a gigantic LA with both very poor neighborhoods and very rich ones, plus everything in between. The contrast between all the wilderness/desert [...]

Grand Canyon

Pictures from day 3 of the roadtrip: http://picasaweb.google.com/anders.e.e.wallin/GrandCanyon#

Death Valley

I will write more about day 2 of the roadtrip when I have time. For now, only pictures here: http://picasaweb.google.com/anders.e.e.wallin/DeathValley#

Yosemite

Picked up an almost brand new 2010 Prius (only 6000 miles on the odometer) at Hertz today, and headed east towards Yosemite National Park. 421.3 miles at an average speed of 45 mph and consumption of 49.8 mpg. That's 678 km and 4.72 l/100 km in metric.