Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Numbers recap of my 2016 Summer trip

I was on the road for 51 days, traveled 4167 miles, through 7 states (AZ, UT, WY, ID, OR, WA, MT). I visited 5 national parks (Grand Canyon, Bryce, Grand Teton, Mt. Rainier, Yellowstone).

I spent $503.40 on campgrounds and RV parks, but camped for free for 22 nights.

Minnie averaged 8.32 mpg, guzzling $1166.43 worth of gas.

The temperatures ranged from the coldest night of 31° in West Yellowstone to 103° daytime high in Boise. I drove through some hotter places, but didn't camp there.

I think the prettiest place was Mt. Rainier. The most surprising was eastern Oregon and eastern Washington, which were hot, dry, windy desert.

Summer is road construction season. Everywhere I went, some percentage of the roads had orange barrels, barricades and road work signs.

All in all, it was a great trip. I learned a few things: paper plates are the way to go; you really can shower with just 6 gallons of hot water; Hanna needs a doggie sweater for those cold nights; good cell phone signal makes every camp more pleasant; a comfortable recliner love seat would be really REALLY nice; I can squeeze my motor home through a lot of narrow busy streets; and camping really is the answer to any question.


Here's a map of stops I made.

7 comments:

  1. That's only $0.28 a mile. When I first traveled in my van I was spending that much per mile for gas. With gas prices low this really is the time to travel. You can never tell what it might be next year.

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  2. So glad you're getting to live your dream. Keep posting the stories for those of us who still have to work.

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  3. Fun trip I hope to be able to do the same someday. I watch lots of YouTube videos of people who live full time in their rv's and I don't think I'd want to do that. Seems like it would be better to have a home base to come back to.

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    1. Richard and Dianna, and Dale live full time in their RVs. They don't miss having a home base to come back to. To each his own.

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  4. I don't see campsite #1. Did you spend two nights at the North Rim?

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  5. Campsite #1 is hidden behind #20 unless you zoom in really close. I camped about 1/8 mile apart the first and last night.

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  6. I completely agree with all the new things you learned. :)

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