High $5.65 Ukiah, CA 4/12/2022 Low $3.54 CA/AZ Border 2/6/2022 Average $4.44 Gallons 559 (coach only)
Average Price for this trip over last couple of years: 2022 $4.44 2021 Did not go south for baseball 2020 $2.39 2019 $3.04 2018 $3.15
Trip south 1555, mapping GPS quit tracking, when we got to Buckeye I figured out how to do a soft reset.
Trip north 2025
Couple of weeks ago I could not log onto the website from my PC. I could still create posts from my phone and Ipad but not my PC. Also the auto notifications quit go out. This evening (4/26/2022) I got help from my ISP and got the website working again, I think.
Motorhome 4502 miles Pick-up 485 miles Gas Prices High $4.34 Bakerfield, Ca 11/11/2021 Low $3.04 Black Mesa Casino, Bernalillo, NM 9/27/2021 Average $3.60 Gallons 712.2 (coach only)
Fall of 2019 for comparison (basically the same trip) Motorhome 5371 miles (went to Big Bend Natl Park in Texas) Pick-up 1403 miles Gas Prices $2.88 High $3.84 Bakersfield, Ca 11/9/2021 Low $2.34 NM-TX border 10/22/2019 Average $2.88 Gallons 829 (coach only)
2021 Annual Summary
Motorhome 6143 miles Pick-up 1871 miles Gas 973 gallons (coach only)
Over the last several days I have updated the blog covering some of the things we have done during this outing. Something new is the balloon videos I took during Fiesta, they are on October 10th.
Marley has been enjoying this campground at Cochiti Dam it’s has some grass for him to pee & poo on.
I have also gone back and added some posts for September.
Trip Wrap Up
Motorhome 1597 miles Pickup 336 miles Gas Prices High $2.69 Enumclaw, WA Low $2.12 Post Falls, Id on trip back Avg $2.31 Gas 288.9 gallons (coach only) Generator 103 hours Propane 26 gallons, if we would have gone south we would use 8 gallons in 3 months. Fish 33 to net 49 on but not to net
Travel comparison 2019 to 2020 Miles 2019: 10978 2020: 5098 Gas 2019: 1690 gallons 2020: 807 gallons Nights 2019: 216 2020: 167
Trip wrap up, we drove to Goodyear and returned on the same route. We did spend an extra month at Goodyear while the whole country was locked down and we had no place to go. At the RV park in Goodyear we could get out and walk everyday, half of the people in the park left on April 1.
Motorhome 3101 miles Pick – up 1741
Gas Prices High $3.20 – Bakersfield, CA – February 11, 2020 Low $1.80 – Arizona-California Boarder – May 2, 2020 Avg $2.49 472 gallons (coach only)
Gas Price from February to May
Feb May $2.54 $1.84 Pilot North of Salem, OR $2.59 $1.99 7 Feather’s Casino, OR $2.94 $2.54 Pilot Dunnigan, CA $3.20 $2.30 Pilot Bakersfield, CA $2.70 $1.80 Pilot Arizona-California Boarder
Motorhome 5371 miles Pick – up 1403 Gas Prices High $3.84 – Bakersfield, CA – November 9, 2019 Low $2.34 – New Mexico-Texas Boarder – Oct 22 and Oct 29, 2019 Avg $2.88 829.5 gallons (coach only)
Moved to site 6 across the street, our reservations were for 14 nights and our time in site 5 is up. Somebody else has site 5 starting tonight. New Mexico parks have about 1/3 of their sites on no reservation status. Last week I asked the campground host if it would be alright if we stayed one additional night. She said it would be ok to stay another night.
This last picture is looking back at site 5.
If you have something that is messy or you don’t want water all over your site just go across the street and use the open site after people leave and before the next person gets there.
27 fish today Got a fish on the first and second cast of the day Fished from11:30 to 4:30
First half of the day was 10-12 inch trout mostly toward the 12 inch size, than got 4 small fish, than nothing. I was using Zebra Midge size 18, went to a smaller 20 and 22 and started catching fish again, they are tough to hook with such a small fly and equally difficult to get all the way to the net.
Here is the summary of my epic fishing this year on the San Juan River.
Summary
9/12. Thursday: 25 9/13 Friday: morning 17 – afternoon 2 9/14 Saturday: 23 9/15 Sunday: morning 6 – afternoon 5 9/16 Monday: no fishing, new carburetor for the coach 9/17 Tuesday: 10 9/18 Wednesday: morning 13 – afternoon up stream to “Qualify Water” 1 to net and nice fish on 9/19 Thursday: morning 9 9/20 Friday: 19 9/21 Saturday: 33 9/22 Sunday: morning 35 – afternoon 26 9/23 Monday: morning 21 245 to date 9/24Tuesday: morning 13 – afternoon 16 in 10+ to 12 inch arrange, one 16 inch brown, 2 casts after this one a 14 inch brown 9/25 Wednesday: 27 on our last day
Motorhome 1883 miles Pick – up 1209 Gas Prices High $3.49 – Sunnyside, WA – May 13, 2019 Low $2.50 – Post Falls, ID – June 25, 2019 Avg $2.84 309 gallons (coach only)
Today’s drive
Our travels for Spring and early Summer fishing.
Here are our travels for the first half of the year.
Motorhome 3723 miles Pick – up 1671 Gas Prices High $3.54 – Barstow, CA Low $2.40 – Quartzsite, AZ Avg $3.04 551 gallons
Gas at Death Valley – Their is a gas station in the middle of Death Valley selling gas for $3.39, at Furnace Creek where we were staying $5.01 and on the eastern side of the park $5.14. The town of Baker which is outside the south entrance was $4.25.
Trip summary:
Motorhome 4622 miles
Pick-up 1597 miles
Gas prices
High $3.29 – Chehalis, WA
Low $2.54 – Tucson, AZ
Highest we saw – $3.89 between Congress, AZ and Kingman, AZ and $4.49 in California
Avg $3.06
693 gallons of gas
For the year
Trip summary:
Motorhome 11,266 miles
Pick-up 5471 miles
1691 gallons of gas
I’m working on a list of projects for the coach.
We have our Mariner’s Spring Training Tickets will be leaving the first week of February.
