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Sand Hollow State Park, UT – Wednesday September 21, 2016

Just a few miles from Zion however I wanted to watch Survivor and we also needed a major shopping trip today.  

We are in site 7 a great pull-through and it is RAINING.  We stayed here several years ago when we were looking for sunny weather, we were not successful then either.  Last time we went north to Mountain View Idaho, this time we will move east Lees Ferry for several days.  

Written on IPad 

 

Zion National Park , UT – Monday September 19, 2016

Last warm day for a while, today’s high is 95 and tomorrow it’s 79.

Wednesday we will be moving on towards our next goal of Albuquerque on September 30th for the nine day Balloon Festival.  Wednesday night will be at Sand Hollow State Park just down the road at Hurricane, Utah.  This way we will be within local TV satellite range so I can watch the first show of this season’s Survivor.   Then it is on to Lees Ferry for couple of days to get some Milky Way pictures, Bluewater Lake State Park in eastern New Mexico only a couple of hours east of Albuquerque.

I have added some additional information to my motor homing by the numbers post.  The number of days in each state.

Arizona  –  109
California  –  33
Canada  –  4
Colorado  –  1
Idaho  –  33
Montana  –  5
New Mexico  –  65
Nevada  –  60
Oregon  –  56
South Dakota  –  4
Utah  –  153
Washington –  408
Wyoming  –  21

Zion National Park, UT – Sunday September 18, 2016

Motorhoming by the numbers

We purchased our first motorhome in November 1993.  We have kept a travel logbook to record our travels.  Over the last week or so I have updated the Excel copy of this logbook with a summary table of every night we have camped.

Total nights – 1040       this does not account for the days we used the motorhome, ie a weekend out would be one night however we were using the motor home 2 days.

1993 – 6
1994 – 30
1995 – 19
1996 – 23
1997 – 20
1998 – 14
1999 – 9
2000 – 10
2001 – 17
2002 – 21
2003 – 19
2004 – 19
2005 – 42
2006 – 45
2007 – 45
2008 – 63
2009 – 54
2010 – 74
2011 – 58
2012 – 57
2013 – 67
2014 – 121
2015 – 138
2016 – 89  through  9/21/2016

Types of places we have stayed:

National Parks –  195
State Parks –  577
Fort Flagler – 180
Zion National Park – 110
Boondocking – 109
Private Commercial – 10
RV Resort/Spring Training – 30
Forest Service – 62
Rest Stops – 43
Walmart –  8
Washington Coast – 39

Number of days in each state (Updated addition)
Arizona  –  109
California  –  33
Canada  –  4
Colorado  –  1
Idaho  –  33
Montana  –  5
New Mexico  –  65
Nevada  –  60
Oregon  –  56
South Dakota  –  4
Utah  –  153
Washington –  408
Wyoming  –  21

Miles driven
24 foot class C – 40,933 miles
32 foot class A Bounder – 90,820
Total miles – 131,753

 

Since September of 2004 at the end of each two plus week trip I summarized our fuel costs and gallons used.
since 9/2004 – $24,476.43  and 7894.5 gallons