of coffee and SUVs

The nearest Caribou Coffee store is about 820 miles away (in Atlanta), according to the travelnotes.org web site. That'd be a long haul for a coffee; it's a good thing that I'm not an SUV driver. At 13 miles per gallon (average for an SUV) that would cost about $190 (126 gallons) for gasoline (assuming $1.50/gallon, round trip) not to mention wear-and-tear. Lee Czarapata (of Runzheimer International) estimates that a GMC Yukon with V-8 engine costs 78.64 cents a mile to operate. In comparison, my 2-door (2001 model) car would drink about $80 (53 gallons) of gasoline for the same round trip.

Before last weekend, the last time The George came to Dallas was in 1995 (I think). That time, she wanted to see the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth (this was before The Fort Worth Herd was paraded down the city streets each day).