ME: 8/2/07 6:50 pm odometer: 21006 9.6 gal gas outside Winston-Salem, NC at $2.76/gal = 30.3 mpg.

30 miles per gallon?? How'd we do that going through the Smokey Mountains and the Blue Ridge Parkway??? Not only is the car overloaded, but we were winding up and down and using low gear and lots of things to lower your gas mileage. Maybe it was all that downhill driving and we were coasting. But wait, we had to drive uphill, too. Hmmmm. It must be Saturn magic.