Pictures of the trip to Michigan

2009 07 12

Christmas 2008 Pictures

Living Life Richly on the Cheap #13

#13 Finding the lowest gas price.

Normally on trips, I advocate not worrying about the price of gas, much. Most times gas prices are within 10 cents a gallon or so. It's not worth $2.00 a tank to hunt down the lowest price.

But today I was able to get gas for the lowest price in the area. $2.119 a gallon. Here are a few websites to help you find the lowest gas prices.

• DaytonGasPrices.com Internet user report the price of gas per staton. Also has great historical graphs and maps. GasBuddy.com is their national web site
• GasPriceWatch.com is also user reported prices. This site let you know the highest and lowest prices in the country.
• Speedway.com has a section that lets you know the street prices at Speedway stations. The site also gives directions and will plot the speedway stations on your route with their price.

Vacation Pics

We had a great time in Gatlinburg, Tn. Here are the pictures. I also included pictures from our trip to Lake Michigan and Family.

White Water Rafting Trip

Brian, Ben, Patrick and I went on a rafting trip to West Virginia. Here at the pictures.

Rafting Trip '08

Second Cousin Ovilia's 1st Birthday

Danielle, Lily and I headed to Oxford, Ohio to celebrate Lily's second cousin, Olivia's 1st Birthday Party. Enjoy the pictures.

Olivia's Birthday

Easter 2008

For the second year in a row we drove up to Michigan for snow during the Easter weekend. Danielle, Lily and I had a good and full weekend. We visited family and praised God for Christ's death and resurrection. Enjoy the pictures.

Easter 2008

Christmas 2007

Danielle, Lily and I just got back from visiting family for Christmas up in Michigan. We had a dusting of snow, so I guess that counts a a white-green Christmas. We enjoyed visiting with our family and showing off Lily. I posted a few pictures for you all to enjoy. I'll post more later when my to do list gets shorter.

Christmas 2007

Vacation Pictures

Danielle, Lily and I were able to take a great Vacation to the Smoky Mountains. We enjoyed staying in a small cabin with a great view. We were able to make it to Clingman's Dome, Cades Cove, and Gatlinburg. Danielle also found great craft treasures. We were able to visit friends in Kentucky. All in all a very good trip.



The day we got back we were invited to a corn maze. I use to get paid to walk corn fields. Yesterday I paided to walk corn fields. Oh the irony. We had a great time. Enjoy the pictures.

Rachel and Patrick

Well after nearly 1000 mile round trip to the wedding we are back home. Major congratulations to Rachel and Patrick! Enjoy the Pictures. Lily was a great little traveler!

2007.08.12 Patric and Rachels Wedding

Baby's Room and Quick Update

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Danielle and been busy making the baby's room pretty and usable. She has done a wonderful job. I know our bundle of joy will have a happy home. Danielle and been feeling real well and contently looks forward to the birth of our daughter. Last weekend we made a trip back to Kentucky to visit a few friends and pick up a few items at our house. Praise the Lord our house in *under contract!* Please pray that everything come together for a quick closing. My countdown clocks says less than two weeks left (+ or - a fortnight). The time is near!

This week by the Numbers

2 Number of Geocaches Dad and I found this weekend in his new car.

3 Childbirth Classes Completed 2 to go.

$2.959 – 2.999 The range of the price of Gas I observed Friday traveling to Michigan Not counting the two outliers of $2.899 & $2.879. I bought gas at the $2.879 price.

4 Number of time Danielle and I have Attended Emanuel Baptist Church, Xenia

4 Number of new counties that I found a Geocache in this week

4 to 8 Number of weeks left in Danielle’s Pregnancy

18 Number of horse and buggies observed while driving through Shipshewana, Indiana

41 Number of consecutive days I have found at least 1 Geocache.

61 Total counties I have Geocached in

232 Miles to Grandma’s House. (Danielle had a Baby Shower This Weekend)

563 My Geocaching find count.

10,683.32 - 13,148.00 The 52 week range on the Dow Jones Avg.

$129,800 Current asking price for our house

133,742 Miles on the Saturn

$8,822,312,309,909.44 The Outstanding Public Debt as of 29 Apr 2007 at 10:26:22 PM GMT

Florida Pictures

Danielle and I had a great time in Florida we stayed at the Wycliffe apartments. Danielle's Cousin Nate is a missionary for Wycliffe. He was able to show us around Florida and give us a quick tour of Wycliffe. It was neat to see how God is working with Wycliffe and learn about vision 2025 to see Bible translation in progress in every language group that needs it.

Florida 2006

While in Florida we where able to visit the beach twice. Once is the early morning to see the sun rise and collect shells and once with Nate and his friend after the sun set. I was able to get some geocaching in, which included dodging popping buzzards near alligator path. With new road layouts Florida seams to be very generous with design. It is was very typical to see 4 lane boulevard roads with palm trees the the grassy medians. There were bike lanes in addition to very wide side walks. We were able to take advantage of the wide sidewalks and go rollerblading one evening. It was nice to have smooth wide *flat* sidewalks. Rollerblading has been a huge challenge in Kentucky do to all the hills. We had a very relaxing and un-stressful time.

Where I have Been

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Fall in Indiana

This last weekend Danielle and I drove up the Central Indiana, the land of *oceans* of corn to meet my parents and Jim & Marisa. We found 5 of 6 Geocaches along the back roads and did a good deal of hiking at the Shades State Park. Danielle, Jim, Dad and I played 9 holes of disk golf in Crawfordsville, IN. We decided that we would play again and keep score making this a Mackiewicz tradition. For the record on the second round Jim won with 2 under par and I had 3 over par and Dad didn't keep score. I was able to redeem myself by winning Rummikub. I went out first twice. Which *never* happens to me. Danielle who normally cleans up in this game, lost big time. It was a great weekend, we even got to see the Tigers win their playoff series and Michigan beat Michigan St.

Here are some pictures I took, I hope to add more later.

Fall Trip with Family

Oct 2, 2006 - 15 Photos

120K Miles

Our Saturn happily rolled past 120,000 miles this weekend. This is statistically significant since it now has twice as many miles on it that when we bought it. The original owners paid about $14,000 for it and sold it to us for $2,900 or about 18 cents a mile not counting taxes, insurance, repairs, or gas. Our cost per mile so far is 5 cents (not counting all the *other* expenses.) So far we have only had to replace the tires and one part for $140. Seeing as it can get over 38MPG, this by far will be the most economical car we will ever own. We did own a '92 sunchicken I mean sun bird that we bought for $500 put at least $600 in repairs at and drove for from 111K to 144K and sold for $175 which translated into 2.8 cents a mile, but the car was a rust bucket, with no ac, or cruise control and took an water every time it rained. So if the Saturn makes it to 169K it's cost per mile will be lower than the sunbird.

I-75 Cincinnati Northbound Traffic Curse

It seams that *every time* I drive I-75 North through Cincinnati, I *always* get stuck in traffic. Their were two accidents on a Saturday morning while I was driving through there. I'll going to keep track of how often I get stuck in traffic there. It's only heading north the has the curse. I drove home southbound with a problem.