We don't drive our cart all the time like some people because from Tamarind Grove down off of St. Charles it's a long way to Walmart and restaurants on 466 and even further to Hwy 27/441.
I play golf twice a week on a championship course, usually Mallory, Cane Garden or Havana and we go to the square once a week and then maybe a quick trip to pick up the mail, etc.
I use a 5 gallon can of gas to fill the cart. Since buying our 2011 Yamaha gas cart last August at Villages at LSL we have used up the can twice and we recently filled it for the third time. So we've probably burned about 11 gallons of gas over 8 months. If we get the 40mpg as reported, then I've driven about 450 miles on my cart.
I actually do much more car driving here than I did in the suburbs of Baltimore. Within ten minutes of our home up there I had everything we needed. Here I generally have to drive 20 to 35 minutes to get to most places since the only close shopping is Colony Plaza and that's about five miles just for that. The Villages is much bigger than anyone would expect who hasn't been here before. When I go to the VA Clinic at Mulberry, like I will be on Monday, it's 11 miles one way and that's in TV and that takes 30 minutes by car, I wouldn't even try to guess what a cart would take. Going up Buena Vista the longest I've gone in my golf cart is the Polo Fields for the Golf Fest and that took 25 minutes.
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