Today's T-Shirt
But for the Canadians checking this page I will share with you an invaluable tip regarding the purchase of gasoline in the the USA.
As you may be aware, when advancing into the bowels of the USA, gas pumps start requiring more than a swipe of your credit card. They require you enter your zip code. Minus this, which we are, one is required to schlep over to the store, wait in line while others pay for potato chips or chocolate bars and chat about the weather, then pre-purchase your gas by handing the clerk the very same credit card refused at the pump but which he processes effortlessly ... sometimes. Next you schlep back to the pump hoping your chosen pre-payment amount fills the tank.
For those who already know how to avoid this inconvenience, you may stop reading here. For those who don't, here's what to do:
Extract the numbers from your postal code in sequence. To illustrate, if your Canadian postal code were M6L 5P9 you would enter 659 and add two zeros on the end. This would make our sample entry 65900. The gas pump will accept this configuration as your zip code and you will be able to pump gas without further inconvenience.
By the way, the cheapest price we saw for gasoline on our trip was in South Carolina: $1.67 per gallon. That translates as about $0.60 per liter in Canada.
This blog should be picking up soon.
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