I was planning on keeping track of how far I will have gone for the whole trip, but now I’m not so sure. I have two different trip counters, A & B, and I keep resetting A at each fill-up so I can keep track of gas mileage and leaving B alone. Today when I stopped for gas in Coeur d’Alene when I went by A after resetting it, I noticed that B was reading 9999.9. Cool, I’ll reach the 10k mark once I start rolling again, so I left B showing and pulled out of the gas station. After driving for a minute, it never changed. Then I did the Homer Simpson head slap, DOH! That’s as far as that trip counter can go, so I reset trip counter B.
How far had I been driving with it sitting on all nines? I remembered telling the barista at the drive-thru coffee place in Billings yesterday morning that I had just passed the ninety-five hundred mile mark on my way there. So, using Google Maps, I backtracked the mileage between Billings and Coeur d’Alene and came up with 526 miles. This means that I am going to be off around 0.2% or really just an inconsequential amount.
Both of today’s Roadside America photos are from Idaho, first up is the Sunshine Mine Happy Family Statue in Wallace and then there was Tidal Wave of Canoes in Lewiston.
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- Sunshine Mine Happy Family Statue
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- Crest of Canoes
I also visited three more spots that were listed on the Roadside America website. The first one was the World Famous 50,000 Silver Dollar Bar in Haugan, MT, where I bought a couple of postcards and a sticker that said “Montana” on it for the trunk lid.
The second one I did photograph, but I couldn’t really get a decent photo worth anything of the Uniroyal Gal with Tattoo in Pomeroy, WA.
The third one was interesting in that it harkened back to Blue Earth, MN, where there was a 55-foot-tall Green Giant statue. In Dayton, WA, there is a Hillside Jolly Green Giant that is 300′ tall but looks tiny because the hill it is on is so far from the road.