Statistics after nearly a month on the road

The half dozen of you who are actually reading this tale of wanderlust might, by now, be wondering just what such an adventure could be costing. Honestly, I'm really afraid to find out. But I did sit down one evening and figured out what our home on wheels is costing in the way of fuel.

Back when we were in Rusk, Texas, when we had been on the road a total of nineteen days, I added up all the money spent on gas and all the miles traveled (I keep a daily running record) and did the necessary division.

Turned out that we had burned through 398.621 gallons of the lowest octane of regular fuel and that amount of petrol had cost $1,366.53. If you do the math you discover that the average price per gallon comes to $3.428 and we had been getting an average of 8.0678 miles per gallon.

Now that may seem like a sobering set of statistics, but we had driven, by then, a grand total of 3,216.0 miles across the southwest and seen some truly wonderful country. This type of vacation just can't be topped for the shear freedom that it entails. You just get to go wherever you want. No worries about whether the next motel bed is going to kill your back. No worries about how many antacids you're going to need to counteract that next restaurant meal. No worries about finding the things you need when you need them. No, your supplies are always with you.

One day I may figure out what the whole vacation has cost. But I probably won't. Park entrance fees tend to average about $30.00 a day. Food probably about the same, though that's just a wild guess at this point. Odds and ends of equipment, entrance fees for museums and such like, books I can't live without, donations at non profit attractions, laundry fees, etc., etc. There's lots of places for the money to dribble out. Still, I think this form of vacation is the best I've ever tried. I wholeheartedly recommend it!