I got up and walked to the highway 12 kikar and back, and even took time to do my stretches. My 3 usual cat companions were all there in their respective places to greet me and walk a bit with me.
We took a drive around the big loop today in the reverse direction from last week. We went up highway 12, then continued on highway 40 to highway 13, which took us over to highway 90 for the trip home down the Arava. We stopped, as we did last week, at the new rest area at Yahel and ate lunch at the Kakao café there.
Our car, a Fiat Panda, gets amazing mileage! I reset the trip computer just before we left home. We drove down to the Yellow station next to the airport first to fill up and to get PepsiMax. Then we went up highway 12. When we got up to the top of the hill, right next to Egypt, our average mileage to that point was 9.6 km/liter, which is about 22.6 mpg. This was on a HOT day going UP a STEEP, winding road, with the A/C running full blast. Through most of the rest of the trip, I drove about 90 km/hr (about 55 mph). Our mileage for the entire trip was 18.9 km/l, which is more than 44.5 mpg. This, remember, was on a day with temperatures OVER 100˚F and with the A/C running the entire time!
This afternoon, we had another nice long conversation with David's sister and her husband in Ohio.
In the evening, we went over to Ice Park for frozen yogurt and then took a drive up highway 12 to just before the checkpoint (where you can see Egypt ahead and the mountains of Jordan behind) and then back down again. All of that brought our mileage for the day down a bit, to 18.3 km/l (43.0 mpg).
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