I’m heading back to Canberra this afternoon and should arrive at some stage tonight. At this stage I intend on taking the longer and more scenic route via Echuca and Albury, although that may change.
It may interest you to know that on Monday evening I decided to drive to Echuca and ended up buying petrol (at 111.9 cents per litre, three cents cheaper than in Deniliquin) while I was there. 57.63 litres of the stuff to be precise. It had been exactly 660KM since I had last filled the tank, and apart from a small amount of city or town based driving as I left Canberra, drove through towns and a small trip in Deniliquin, it was all highway driving.
57.63 litres to travel 660KM works out at 11.452368558042686100989068193649 kilometres per litre.
I will be topping up again before leaving Deniliquin, so it will be interesting to see if I am able to get back to Canberra on one tank of petrol if I take the longer route via Echuca and Albury which is about 663KM or 57.89 litres based on the above calculation. If the calculation is accurate, then I shouldn’t have any problems getting back to Canberra on a single tank of petrol.
And for those of you who are wondering, yes this does mean that I will be back on 1WAY FM’s breakfast show tomorrow morning.
Samuel
Comments Disabled To "And back to Canberra"
#1 Comment By Duke-of-Glostershire On December 31, 2008 @ 3:22 pm
Watch those summer gnats as you approach the north side of Canberra.
Use a bug swatter if necessary.
#2 Comment By Glendenning On January 2, 2009 @ 11:14 am
I can’t stand gnats. I swat them at every opportunity I get, whilst singing the gnat-swatting song which goes –
“We swatted ’em,
We swatted ’em,
Out the back, and in the shack”.
“We swatted ’em,
We swatted ’em …. “.
#3 Comment By Samuel On January 2, 2009 @ 2:03 pm
Those ads drive me up the wall…at least you’re not painting me.
(For the benefit of our non-Canberra readers, Glendenning Painters and Decorators have some of the most annoying ads on Canberra Radio…the comment above feature modified lyrics from one such advertisement.)
#4 Comment By Glendenning On January 2, 2009 @ 4:45 pm
Actually, that painting advert is verging on the edge of poor taste –
“We painted ‘er,
We painted ‘er,
Down ‘er middle,
Up ‘er back,
Every hole and every crack”.
#5 Comment By nbrettoner On January 3, 2009 @ 10:40 am
Hi Samuel,
Without encroaching on the realm of libellous comment too much,
could you please share with us something of Deniliquin.
I would be interested to read of your expectations/impressions/experiences/comments, concerning “all-things-Deni”.
The good, the bad, the downright ugly & the beauty, of the place people & environment.
And could you please give me the web address for 2QN?.