Wednesday, Jun 30, 2004 at 00:11
Geez, scary that reckoning of yours, Willem!
I also reckon at least $ 150 a day as my Nissan - 1998 - 20 years younger than yours, also drinks juice.
Loaded at 100kph costs me $ 21 per 100 km, so thats 476 km per day - 200 before lunch, 200 after if your'e really heading somewhere. I accept that not every day will most folks do 470 kays, but my averages aren't that far off it.
Starting from $ 100 a day:
add $ 16. [Tyres cost heaps & I always seem to do one or two a year, so that is $ 500 p.a = about $ 10 a day if you travel for 50 days a year, which is a fair whack of travel if you are not retired. Plus Rego & Insurance = another $ 1000 p.a. = $ 3 per day + service costs of the same.]
add $ 20 tucker for two
add $ 10 for throat lubrication [that's only the equivalent of a bottle of wine - or 4 stubbies - between two of you - remember you're on holidays & being dry ain't as relaxing]
add incidentals at $ 10 [could be two showers, or more expensive cut of meat, or a souvenier, or -
heaven forbid - you have to book into a caravan park]
TOTAL is therefore at least $ 156 per day
Bugger it, just GO. Time for countin' pennies when ya get
home.
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