Fall Trip 2025 Day 9
21 September 2025 This was an easy day driving up the western coast of Michigan and then over to Grand Rapids, just 140 miles on back roads at an average efficiency of 3.9 miles/kWh. It was a gray and rainy …
Fall Trip 2025 Day 8
20 September 2025 Today was a relatively short day by distance, just 166 miles, but as I was traveling on back roads through the Chicago metro area, it did take me a while. I was in and out of rain …
Fall Trip 2025 Day 7
19 September 2025 Today was a lazy day in Rockford and I only drove 16 miles around town. Along the way, I made two stops for charging (explained later), a stop at a (closed) used book store, and Second Meal™️ …
Fall Trip 2025 Day 6
18 September 2025 My route today was the dark blue line on the map, a total of just 276 miles, all on back roads again. As I was still in Minnesota and approaching the Iowa border, I saw my first …
Fall Trip 2025 Day 5
17 September 2025 Today started off in Bettendorf IA with sunny skies, a light breeze, and 65º when I left the hotel at 8:45am. By the time I arrived in Rochester MN around 2pm, it was in the low 80s …
Fall Trip 2025 Day 4
16 September 2025 The weather continues to be beautiful, if hot. This was the view when I left my hotel in Lafayette IN this morning: And here was my route for the day: I was on backroads the entire way …
Fall Trip 2025 Day 3
15 September 2025 Since I forgot to show you my hotel’s EV chargers yesterday evening, here they are — 2 NACS ports and 2 J-1772. Both J-1772 plugs were in use last night but there were no Teslas charging this …
Fall Trip 2025 Day 2
14 September 2025 My original plan for today was to drive west on I-80 for just over an hour to an Electrify America (free charging, baby!) near Youngstown OH, then head to Columbus on back roads, charging one more time …
Fall Trip 2025 Day 1
13 September 2025 This was my only all-interstate day until the end of next week and it wasn’t horrible, although it always amazes me how insane some of the drivers are — 85-90 miles per hour? Sometimes in a 50 …
Fall Trip 2025 – Preview!
4 September 2025 A week from Saturday I’m heading out for a 15-day drive that will take me as far as Iowa and Minnesota before turning back. This will my longest trip yet in the EV, around 3,300 miles, and …