For the completed trips below, posts for these can be found via the “Archives” or “Categories” buttons.
Oct 05-08 – South Lake Tahoe Food and Wine Festival
Oct 11-31 – Cross Country Natural Gas Road Trip
Traveled though 24 states plus the District of Columbia
This adventure grew to what it has become, due to my wanting to meet an aunt and other east coast relatives, and putting a tentative California-Pennsylvania route on a CNGchat.com post. This trip has now been completed; to see daily posts, under “CATEGORIES”, select “2012-10 Green Across America Road Trip” (posts will then be listed in reverse chronological order).
Special thanks goes to CNGchat founder Curtis Martin, American Honda, and the other sponsors listed at GreenAcrossAmerica.com.
The CNG stations visited are listed below along with fuel usage and costs for the cross country trip:
CNG Fuel Usage as of 1 Nov 2012
Fuel costs comparison: (based on a gasoline average of $3.67 from USA Today):
Eastbound (1-way): $171.65 (CNG) vs. $335.87 (gasoline)
Round trip: $374.05 (CNG) vs. $725.49 (gasoline)
The eastbound trip took 12 days and included 10 events (as well as a wine tasting morning and a family reunion day). The westbound trip took 10 days and included 11 events (as well as a day off for local sightseeing).
October 2022 Travel
Decided to do a 10 year anniversary CNG cross-country trip and started in San Pedro, CA with a brief stop at America Honda headquarters in Torrance, CA,…
followed by a short visit with Curtis Martin, the current owner of the NGV driven in 2012. The rest of the trip was filled with sight seeing and visiting east coast relatives again. I had my cousin, Mary, along as my co-pilot. Having come from China in the mid-80’s, she’d never been to most of the places we visited and blogged in WeChat to her Chinese friends in Taiwan and China on about the places we visited.
Here’s the CNG fueling details for this trip.
Routes are a bit more direct this go around.
CNGTravels 
Hi Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Gary,
That car interview you did was great!!!!!
-Max and Laura
Hi, this is Ron Wagner from cngchat.com Thinking of meeting you at Laclede’s Gas at 9 AM. Would that be OK.
Hi Gary and Evelyn. This is Ron Wagner from cngchat.com . I am thinking of meeting you at Laclede’s Gas tomorrow. Would that be OK? My cell is 217-521-0264 .
Hi Ron! We’ll look forward to meeting you!
I had a change of plans but will hopefully find you Thursday morning in Indy. What is your schedule?
Hi Ron,
Right now we have 2 hours allocated for the Indianapolis event, starting at 9:00 am, but that might change. We’ll be calling Curtis this evening. He left this morning to fly to Indy.
– Ev
Sent from my iPhone
Thanks for your friendly greeting. I enjoyed visiting with you both. Hope we meet again some time. Thanks for your contribution to promoting natural gas vehicles!
Thanks for coming out and supporting the effort, Ron. Great meeting you. We’ve had a number of CNGChatter’s meet up with the road trip along the way. We hope there will be many more along the return journey.
Thanks Ev and Gary, Patrick had a good time and learned a great deal by tagging along with the dealerships NGV from Philadelphia to Atlantic City!
Hi Jamey! Thanks for supporting this event. Great to see that others recognize the importance of NGVs.
Hi Evelyn & Gary,
David Tucker here with Triangle Clean Cities Coalition. Am really looking forward to meeting you both in Raleigh, NC, tomorrow morning for our CNG Road Trip event at PSNC Energy! And your blog and the web page both look great. The two of you and Curtis are doing an amazing thing putting this whole trip together!
Until soon,
David