(MONEY Magazine) – $190 Approximate gas cost of driving I-80 from New York City to San Francisco[1]

$52 Cost of making the trip in 1951, the year Jack Kerouac wrote his seminal Beat novel, On the Road[2]

$60 Cost of the trip if driving a Honda Insight, a gas/electric hybrid car that gets about 68 mpg on highways

$2.4 million Price paid at auction in 2001 for the manuscript of On the Road, written on a single, scrolled sheet of paper

$15.95 Price of the new, updated edition of Jane and Michael Stern's classic 1976 guide, Roadfood

$5.50 Cost of the toll for driving the length of the New Jersey Turnpike

$865 Price of Clarion's in-dash DVD player, including roof-mounted flip-down screen and remote

$39.95 Cost of an audiobook of Homer's Odyssey, read by Ian McKellen

--AMY WILSON

Notes: [1]Assuming average gas mileage of 21.5 mpg and average gas cost of $1.40 a gallon. [2]15 mpg; 27[cents] a gallon. Sources: Energy Information Administration, Christie's, Amazon.com, www.state.nj.us/turnpike, www.etronics.com, www.bn.com.