Total number of miles traveled round-trip: 2,431
Total days spent driving round-trip: 4
Total number of times we re-filled the fuel tank: 8
Total amount of gas we had in the tank when we returned home: 3/4 of a tank (11.25 gallons)
Approximate miles per gallon (I lost a receipt so I had to estimate one refill): 27.38
Our car's rating for estimated highway miles per gallon: 27
Total number of Cracker Barrel restaurants encountered one way: 24
Number of deer carcasses seen on the way to Kansas City: 16
Number of deer carcasses seen on the way home: 12
Number of billboards advertising something religious on the way to KC: 15
Number of billboards advertising something adult on the way to KC: 18
Number of billboards advertising fireworks on the way to KC: 24
Number of billboards advertising the sale of cowboy or Western-style boots on the way home: 8 (a number seemingly much smaller than that which we might have have gotten had we kept track of them on the way to KC)
Number of billboards advertising the sale of antiques on the way home: 19
Total number of billboards advertising pie round-trip: 4
Total number of pie pieces consumed by both Amy and me: 3
Of those pieces of pie, the total that were lemon meringue: 1
Of those pieces of pie, the total that were cherry: 1
Of those pieces of pie, the total that were blackberry: 1
Total number of billboards advertising the value of using billboards to advertise: unknown, but easily far exceeding any of the other totals
Number of convertibles encountered on the way to KC: 6
Number of convertibles encountered on the way home: 5
Number of those convertibles with their top down: 5
Number of those convertibles seemingly driven by maniacs: 3
Number of drawings done while at SFAL 2: 10
Number of drawings I was happy with: 9
Number of PopTarts consumed by both Amy and me during the entire trip: 14
Number of PopTarts I was permitted to consume before the age of 18: 0
Number of therapy sessions required to deal with the previous number: 0
It was a crazy show, to be sure, and it was fun to share the ride with my wife, Amy. I would have bet that she'd grow irritated by me at some point during the trip (and I'm sure some of you might have thought the same thing), but it turns out her tolerance for any annoyance I might dish out far exceeds expectations. Always fun, though, to have her by my side, and I suspect my fellow artists find me slightly more tolerable when she's around. I'm more than a little partial to her, myself.
The Work and Musings of Illustrator Steven Belledin
Ha! Somehow I missed this post. I like it. If I had the discipline to keep track of anything, I'd do something like this myself.
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