I drive a small pickup truck, a 1994 Toyota with a camper shell.  I call it Old Blue, just because I fell like it.  [Here’s a few photos.]  It has a four cylinder engine, five speed manual transmission.  I just checked the mileage on the old beastie; first time I’ve bothered to do that in several years. 

In the past 11 days, I’ve driven 290 miles around Carpinteria and back and forth to Santa Barbara and Goleta.  I used 10.784 gallons of gas.  That’s 26.891 mpg.

Bleh.  I used to get better than that: up to 34 on in the highway.  This mileage was mixed, but more highway than not.  Where’d my mileage go?  Old Blue is getting old I guess. It has 135327 miles on it.  My friend Tasha told me once, around her 15^th birthday, “getting old bites hard.”

What do you drive, and what kind of mileage do you get?