crosscountrystats

Traveling

We drove 9,356 miles through 29 days. That's an average of 322.6 miles per day!

We spent 7 days going west, Connecticut to California, driving 3,425.1 miles and averaging 489.3 miles per day. Our second day was our longest, taking us 625 miles from Dubois, Pennsylvania through Ohio and Indiana, past Chicago, and into my Aunty Judy and Uncle Maurice's house in Belvedere, Illinois.

In California we drove 1,310.1 miles - covered the entire west coast from Oregon to San Diego. We spent 8 full days in the state, averaging only 163.8 miles per day.

We spent 14 days driving the 4,565.8 miles east. We averaged 351.2 miles on this segment with our shortest day being our 22nd in which we began and ended at the Mardi Gras Campground, New Orleans, Louisiana having traveled only 13.8 miles.

Money

-TOTAL-

We spent about $2,370 total during our 29 days on the road. Of that, $827.6 was spent in California, $320.14 on the way there, and $922.09 on the way back. (One major reason for this increased spending on the way back is that we were doing groceries much less and eating out much more. But, we had made it from CT to the Pacific Ocean on only $320.14!:-)

-GAS-

We spent $413.59 on gas; the average price was between $1.45 and $1.50 nationwide.
The most expensive region was California, where we photographed (but did not purchase
from) a place that cost $2.98/gallon. The cheapest region was definitely the south, from
Arizona to the Carolinas.

-LODGING-

We spent $455.06 on lodging. We spent all but 7 of these nights in campgrounds. They
ranged from $10 to $33, and price was no indication of quality - the $10 one was a
beautiful site surrounded by redwoods trees in the National park. (The California State Parks, incidentally, are great and all in beautiful locations with incredibly low prices...and no showers. But, they were still nice:-)Three of these nights we stayed in Native teepees in Arizona and Texas. Two nights we stayed in campgrounds for free for various reasons.
Of the other seven, four nights were spent with members of our families: (Thank you Aunt Judy and Uncle Maurice, Uncle Matt, Uncle Nick and Aunt Estelle, and Uncle Kevin:-). Two more were in in hotels, priced between $31 and $37 each, and were not very nice at all. We also spent one night sleeping in the parking lot of a well lit parking lot of a Best Western in San Diego - it turns out that you cannot show up in San Diego after midnight on a Friday and expect a room under $100; and as fate would have it, you couldn't even get one over $100 on this particular night!! The remaining night we spent in the apartment that I was to live in at the beginning of my next semester in Washington D.C.).

-FOOD-

We spent $498.27 on food. This is an average of $21.02 per day. This includes eating out almost not at all until southern california, much more through the central and eastern south. It also includes the help of the friends and families we visited with (thank you again to all above mentioned family and Nate and Patrick:-)

-OTHER-

We spent $571.77 on "fun" and this includes mostly attraction admissions.

We spent $24.30 on tolls (none of which were in California!) and $246.97 on souveneirs,
a surprisingly large percentage of which was postcards. We also spent $24.93 on ice for
the cooler as well as $146.72 on miscellanious expenses including: parking, showers, camp supplies, and a new tent.

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