The ecomodder in me backs off on vacation, but isn't gone. The bulk of my gasoline useage isn't there anyway, its the daily grind.
For instance over the Father's day weekend I went up north and blasted around the county on 4 wheeler for half the day on Saturday. Waste of gas? Yes. Fun? Oh yeah. How much gas did I use? Eh, maybe a gallon. From time to time I did use ecodriving techniques with the 4 wheeler too (mainly in the form of WOT useage
).
Another example is I'll be taking a cross country trip with friends over the week of the 4th of July. Probably going to put close to 3000 miles on the Matrix and I sure as heck am not going to be the only one driving. That means it'll probably get mid 30s for mileage. I don't like it, but I'm not gonna let that bother me. We looked into renting a Prius or Civic hybrid but the cost would have been three times higher so it wasn't worth it.
BTW, congrats on the wedding and have a great honeymoon!