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Jul. 5th, 2010 03:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickWent out to Philly today to visit at Chez Matt. I decided to go home same day instead of staying over, which is more usual for me. As I was leaving, someone asked how long it took me to get from there to here and vice versa. It takes three hours.
The PTC helpfully prints the time you entered the pike on their tickets in military format: 23:39.
Car has a working clock for when I got off the pike: 2:31.
Time in transit: Approximately three hours.
Distance covered: 165 miles (from Valley Forge exit to Breezewood exit).
Average speed is 165 miles / 3 hours = 55 (Included a pit stop at Starbucks)
I usually do slightly better than three hours over the pike portion of the trip (so that the "three hours" limit includes the not-Turnpike driving from my house to there), and this would of course indicate that my average speed over the pike driving section was faster than 55 mph. (The pike speed limit is 65, after all. Some trips I actually drive just a hair under 70 for the entirety of the pike driving... but not if it's dark and I'm tired.)
The PTC helpfully prints the time you entered the pike on their tickets in military format: 23:39.
Car has a working clock for when I got off the pike: 2:31.
Time in transit: Approximately three hours.
Distance covered: 165 miles (from Valley Forge exit to Breezewood exit).
Average speed is 165 miles / 3 hours = 55 (Included a pit stop at Starbucks)
I usually do slightly better than three hours over the pike portion of the trip (so that the "three hours" limit includes the not-Turnpike driving from my house to there), and this would of course indicate that my average speed over the pike driving section was faster than 55 mph. (The pike speed limit is 65, after all. Some trips I actually drive just a hair under 70 for the entirety of the pike driving... but not if it's dark and I'm tired.)
