There’s nothing photogenic far from your vehicle ― why search?

[rdenney]

Let's see: 12,000 miles @ 18 mpg @ $4.00/gal = $2667. Haha yourself!

The rent difference for comparable housing in Manhattan would exceed that...

...every month.

Rick "not counting transit fares, which ain't exactly free" Denney

[tgtaylor]

Let's see: 12,000 miles @ 18 mpg @ $4.00/gal = $2667. Haha yourself!

Well let's see: 12,000 miles @ 45/mpg in my "little" Echo (50/mpg if all highway) = $1,064. Haha all of you!

The Echo is the biggest small car that I have ever seen: Plenty of leg and head room; the front seats drop back so someone my size (5'10") is able to inflate an air mattress and sleep in relative comfort in the front seat if necessary; and the trunk will completely hold my 10" telescope with tripod and all accessories for an observing session. That latter is a primary purchasing requirement for me. If it won't fit, I don't buy, period.

Thomas

[Daniel_Buck]

Let's see: 12,000 miles @ 18 mpg @ $4.00/gal = $2667. Haha yourself!

18mpg is probably an over estimate on my jeep, even just highway miles I'm figuring on about 16mpg on the freeway doing 70. That's cool though, I've been expecting not to work for these 2 months anyway, and one paycheck will cover the entire fuel cost, so I'm ok.

Even with my not-so-eco-friendly jeep, it's still probably going to be cheaper than flying all over the place, I'm going to be visiting alot of people in alot of different states. Though, I haven't calculated the cost of flying, I'd rather just drive anyway. If I see something nice, I can go to it. If I see a road or a trail that looks interesting, I'll take it.

[Sirius Glass]

Well let's see: 12,000 miles @ 45/mpg in my "little" Echo (50/mpg if all highway) = $1,064. Haha all of you!

The Echo is the biggest small car that I have ever seen: Plenty of leg and head room; the front seats drop back so someone my size (5'10") is able to inflate an air mattress and sleep in relative comfort in the front seat if necessary; and the trunk will completely hold my 10" telescope with tripod and all accessories for an observing session. That latter is a primary purchasing requirement for me. If it won't fit, I don't buy, period.

Thomas

Until some jerk rear-ends you and you get seriously killed!

Steve

[Thad Gerheim]

Until some jerk rear-ends you and you get seriously killed!

Steve

Is that different than getting unseriously killed by an oil tanker or cancer from heavy metals in your drinking water. Its a good thing we don't count the unseriously killed!

[Curt]

I have two, one is a Jeep like Daniel's and the other is a Dodge Ram. Wife has an Elantra, 35 mpg.

Jeep 16 to 20, 6 cylinder Sport, sleep in it? No.
Ram 1500 four door small V8. Can pull my lt wt rv. Gets 12 mpg. Sleeps many. Bath, kitchen, beds. On a longer trip it's economical.

Both being 4x4's it's good to go where I want. I need a shooting platform for the truck.

New clutch for the Jeep new transmission for the Ram.

I'd walk as far as I can depending on the day. Americans like to see what's just over the next hill. It's in our stock.

[Andrew O'Neill]

Americans like to see what's just over the next hill. It's in our stock

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...and then invade. It's in your stock.

[Brian C. Miller]

...and then invade. It's in your stock.

Hey! We were trying to free Canada from British oppression. And now the Queen can change your country's seal as she sees fit, whenever she likes. Just because nobody up north there notices for six months isn't our fault...

[Roger Cole]

I don't know where this bizarre discussion of costs and relative safety came in. Weren't we talking about photography?

I drive more than twice that 12k figure, but my car gets nearly twice the mileage (32-35 on my Mazda3 with stick shift that I mostly keep my foot out of) and gas so far is nowhere near $4 a gallon again here - $3.429 in my neighborhood right now, all of which is pretty irrelevant to photography. We aren't really talking about whether it's worth driving an hour to photograph but more like whether it's worth walking an additional five miles (or whatever) after driving. (Vehicle mass also doesn't correlate directly to safety, especially when comparing the popular high mass vehicles with high roof lines and accompanying proneness to roll over - which is all even more irrelevant.)