Computing the optimal road trip across the U.S

Related and possibly the reason this was reposted today: http://sciencefriday.com/segment/07/10/2015/the-ultimate-gee...

This has been posted with the exact same title several times already: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=optimal+road+trip+randalolson....

Note that one of those search results is actually a related article for Europe and that another is a followup post.

I noted in another comment that this was likely reposted today because both the author of the post and John were on the US NPR radio show Science Friday today regarding a related story.

So LA is out of luck in both trips?

Wonderful article!