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| Time | Event | Range Remaining |
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| 8:40 am | Departed Best Western Canyonlands | 249 |
Range/Distance ratio: 0.97
Conditions: 99°F
After packing up and departing the hotel,
we arrived at the Visitor's Center for Arches National Park a short distance north.
Arches is home to over 2000 naturally-created stone arches
plus numerous other geological formations
mostly made of various types of sandstone.
Many of these are world-famous.
Inside Double Arch
In addition to learning about the park, we obtained the instructions
for both kids to earn their Junior Ranger Patches
while we hiked short trails to the various sights.
Fiery Furnace Viewpoint
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Delicate Arch Viewpoint
Balanced Rock
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| Moab Supercharger
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Seeing all these sights and earning Junior Ranger Patches took longer than expected.
I figured out that our late departure from Arches was going to shift our arrival
in Salt Lake City later than I wanted.
So, to save time, instead of having lunch at the Green River Supercharger like we planned we
picked up McDonald's in Moab, drove to the Moab Supercharger so I could eat lunch,
then drove north to the Price Supercharger while the kids finished their lunch.
I did the math and queried the Tesla navigation to determine
we could easily skip a Supercharger.
Cost to Charge: $0
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| Price Supercharger
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| Time | Event | Range Remaining |
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| 2:00 pm | Departed Moab Supercharger | 219 |
| 3:47 pm | Arrived Price Supercharger | 65 |
Range/Distance ratio: 1.32
Conditions: Cruise control set to 80 mph speed limit(!), 100°F
The 80-mph speed limit allowed us to make up the time.
We arrived in Price for a bathroom break and bought a couple smoothies
from the nearby Dairy Queen to enjoy.
Cost to Charge: $0
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| Destination Charging at Red Lion Inn, Salt Lake City
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| Time | Event | Range Remaining |
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| 4:14 pm | Departed Price Supercharger | 176 |
| 6:15 pm | Arrived Red Lion Inn, Salt Lake City | 66 |
Range/Distance ratio: 0.924
Conditions: Headwinds offset by drafting behind a fast truck, then traffic
The drive took us through a beautiful valley that had a headwind.
I drafted behind a surprisingly but consistently fast tractor-trailer, saving us
about 10% of our battery, while still making up time.
That drafting ended when we hit Friday traffic in Provo and Salt Lake City.
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We arrived at the Red Lion Inn in Salt Lake City, which offers
Tesla Destination Charging.
They had a great pool, which we enjoyed that evening before dinner.
This was our rendezvous with my wife and mother of my children
after her week-long conference in Northern Utah.
Cost to Charge: $0
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Dean E. Dauger holds a Ph. D. in physics from UCLA, where his group
created the first Mac cluster in 1998. Dr. Dauger is the award-winning
author in multiple American Institute of Physics' Software Contests and
co-authored the original, award-winning Kai's Power Tools
image-processing package for Adobe Photoshop.
After founding his company,
Dauger Research, Inc., its debut product,
Pooch, derived from Dr. Dauger's experience using clusters for his
physics research, was soon awarded as "most innovative" by IEEE Cluster
and continues to revolutionize parallel computing and clusters worldwide
with its patented technology.
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