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canyonwalker) wrote2021-08-07 09:21 am
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Home from Spokane: Blue Skies and $5 Gas
Northwest Return Travelog #17
Back home - Mon, 2 Aug 2021. 9pm.
This evening we returned home from our long weekend trip to Spokane and the Inland Northwest. For much of the flight home we could see nothing of the ground below us. Everything was covered with smoke from wildfires. As we entered the San Francisco area, though...
Blue skies! Wispy, white clouds high in the sky! Visibility for miles! $5 gas!
LOLwut? After we landed at Oakland airport (the pic above was taken from the airplane on approach) and started driving home we passed a gas station where fuel was selling for over $5.00 per gallon. Had prices shot up that badly in the 4 days we were out? Enh, not quite. I think it was just a next-to-the-airport gas station taking advantage of its location. But gas here in the Bay Area is more expensive than in the rural northwest. Up there many stations charged about $3.59/gal for regular grade gasoline. Here it can be from $0.40 to a dollar higher (or more) depending on local economics.
We got home-home, as in pulled the car into our garage, just before 8:30pm. That was after we stopped for dinner at a favorite local restaurant. Once home we quickly unloaded the car, sorted our gear and laundry into the proper places, and started winding down for the evening. This four day trip has been just long enough to call it a vacation; but now it's back to work tomorrow.
Back home - Mon, 2 Aug 2021. 9pm.
This evening we returned home from our long weekend trip to Spokane and the Inland Northwest. For much of the flight home we could see nothing of the ground below us. Everything was covered with smoke from wildfires. As we entered the San Francisco area, though...
Blue skies! Wispy, white clouds high in the sky! Visibility for miles! $5 gas!
LOLwut? After we landed at Oakland airport (the pic above was taken from the airplane on approach) and started driving home we passed a gas station where fuel was selling for over $5.00 per gallon. Had prices shot up that badly in the 4 days we were out? Enh, not quite. I think it was just a next-to-the-airport gas station taking advantage of its location. But gas here in the Bay Area is more expensive than in the rural northwest. Up there many stations charged about $3.59/gal for regular grade gasoline. Here it can be from $0.40 to a dollar higher (or more) depending on local economics.
We got home-home, as in pulled the car into our garage, just before 8:30pm. That was after we stopped for dinner at a favorite local restaurant. Once home we quickly unloaded the car, sorted our gear and laundry into the proper places, and started winding down for the evening. This four day trip has been just long enough to call it a vacation; but now it's back to work tomorrow.