Wrap-up.
I have enjoyed Terra Firma for over a week now. I have thought about what my last entry for this blog should contain. Well, i figure numbers!
We started our trip in Tampa, Florida, 26'56"N,82'26"W. Yes, you see the wrong designators for degrees and minutes but i don't know how to add a degree superscript. So get over it!
521 nautical miles later we arrived in Grand Caymen. 19'22"N, 81'30"W. Pretty much due south. Thence, 644 miles to Cartegena, Colombia, 10'24"N,75'31"W. You would think we would have lost at least one time zone but if memory serves we added two and set our clocks for mountain time! Whiz, bang, to the Panama Canal just 270 miles, (9'15"N,79'55"W), add 39 to traverse the canal zone, add another 320 miles and you arrive in Puntarenas, Costa Rica, 9'42"N,84'46"W. We made it just west of the longitude of Tampa and our clocks still read mountain time. Now the long haul, 1637 miles to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, 22'53"N, 109'53"W.  Still on mountain time but will change once we set off for Los Angeles, which lies 786 miles north at 33'45"N, 118'11"W. The vast majority of the trip had an indicated speed of 20knots. I say indicated since i watched a live map of our progress during the entire trip. Pictures of this feed
We traveled a total 4217 nautical miles from Tampa to Los Angeles which Google tells me measures some 2100 statute miles apart East-West. I will leave the conversion to you but nautical is longer than statute. Without the canal we would add  twice the distance of the entire South American continent and much more than 13 days.
Once we arrived in Las Vegas, from LA, we rented a car and drove. I don't have mileage on the drive but our gas mileage measured 41 mpg! We used about 14 gallons.
While i can compute the cost of the entire trip it doesn't matter.  You can't put a price on the experience.
Lastly, i gained 8 pounds!
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