| Day 13: Alexandria, Virginia, to Ypsilanti, Michigan Friday, July 11, 2011 520.7 miles I left Alexandria at 7:58 am, after packing up and eating breakfast. I was headed north, so after I made it onto the Beltway (where I nearly sideswiped another car to get onto the entrance ramp), traffic wasn't so bad (just very fast). I stopped at the Pennsylvania Welcome Center to get a free cookie and lemonade! Gas was $3.599/gal in Somerset, Pennsylvania. I expected that most of the Pennsylvania Turnpike would be under construction, just like last summer, and it was. I didn't expect (as I should have) that the world would be travelling the same roads I was and that the service centers would be completely filled. At several of them, I couldn't even find a single parking space, so I just drove on. I got a Hershey's cookies-and-cream milkshake at one of the travel plazas on the Ohio Turnpike. I got home at 6:18 pm. It took me 10 hours and 20 minutes, an average of 50 miles per hour, even through traffic and construction! Overall, my trip was 3137.8 miles, lasted 13 days, and cost $1700. My car averaged 38.0 miles per gallon. I had such a wonderful trip. Thank you so much for looking at my pictures!
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