Category: Trip Wrap Up

Big House – Sunday August 5, 2018

Our last day’s drive on Monday July 31, 2018.

Second part of our Spring trip is complete.
Travel locations included:

Beavertail Hill State Park, MT
Badlands National Monument, SD
Custer State Park, SD
Mount Rushmore, SD
Deadwood, SD
Bighorn River, MT
Beaverhead River – Dillion, MT
Palisades BLM, Madison River, MT
Ruby Creek BLM, Madison River, MT
Richland, WA

Motorhome 3235 miles
Pick-up 2724
Gas prices
   High – Richland, WA $3.17
   Low – Gillette, WY $2.54
                Rapid City, SD $ 2.54
   Avg – $2.85
513 gallons

2018 travels map

Motorhome is 8875 miles
Pick-up is 3874

We will be leaving the first of September for northern New Mexico for two weeks of fishing on the San Juan River, Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta almost 2 weeks, than chase the warm weather until we head for the Big House and Thanksgiving.

Big House, Trip Summary – Tuesday April 10, 2018

We are back to the Big House for a month.  Current plan is to leave the second week of May for Montana.

Today’s drive:

Trip summary:
Motorhome 3409 miles
Pick-up 1150 miles
Gas prices
High $3.14 – Bakersfield, CA
Low $2.50 – AZ-CA Boarder by Blythe, CA
Avg $3.15
449 gallons

Interesting gas prices, this is how they changed from February on the way south and April on the way back north.

Chehalis, WA
February  $2.89
April           $3.09

Grants Pass, OR
February  $2.78
April           $3.09

Dunningan, CA
February  $2.80
April           $3.20

AZ-CA Boarder – Blythe, CA
February  $2.50
April           $2.94

Bakersfield
February  $2.98
April            $3.14

 

Big House Enumclaw, WA – Monday November 13, 2017

We made it back to the big house for the next couple of months.   Will be here for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year.  First spring training game will be Friday February 23, 2018.
Today’s drive

Here is the Fall trip.

Trip summary:
Motorhome 5645 miles
Pick-up 1612 miles
Gas prices
High $3.49 – Thousand Palms, CA
Low $2.20 – Albuquerque, NM & Tucson, AZ
Avg $2.58
869 gallons

Home – Trip Wrap Up – Thursday November 17, 2016

Today is the last day of our fall trip.

First we had to move to a site by the road to dump the holding tanks.
Then we were on the road.
The pass was a little if’y so we drove around.
This pictures shows how the InReach track looks better once I upload the data inside the unit.
This is our track for the fall trip.

78 Nights – we will be at the big house 80 to 90 nights before heading to Mariner’s Spring training in February.

679.9 gallons of gas
Price range $1.90 to $2.59
$1.90 Albuquerque, Texas/NM border, Tucson
$2.59 Enumclaw
4811 miles on motor home
1300 on the car
Averaged $14.73 a night (not counting the balloon festival)

Had a great trip and looking forward to our spring trips to Goodyear for spring training and a month in Montana/Wyoming fly fishing.

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

Spring Trip Wrap Up and Fishing – June 15, 2016

We started our Spring travels going to Mariner’s Spring training and finished up in Yellowstone for two weeks.   We’ll leave in August for Zion and Albuquerque, New Mexico Balloon Festival.

Motor Home miles: 4864
Tow car miles: 1619  with 647 of those miles in Yellowstone
Gas: 780 gallons

Yellowstone trip fuel priced ranged from $2.22 to $2.73 306 gallons.

In the last two years we have traveled 18,159 miles in the motor home and 5,349 in our tow car.

Fishing
This is the largest lowland’s lake trout I have ever caught – 17 inches, 1.5 pounds. I have this picture thanks to Jeremy and Steven who came with me on Monday.  I got a BIG fish however fishing was slow.
Here are the two fish I caught Monday June 13, 2016.
Here are the fish from today (Wednesday June 15, 2016).  When the fish are biting it’s easy, I was off the lake at 9:30.  The one on the left is 15 inches and weighed 1 1/4 pounds.

Home to the Big House – Wednesday June 8, 2016

We have returned to the big house after our spring travels.  Will be here for June, July and leave again in the small house towards the end of August.

Our spring travels started in February to Arizona for spring training with a trip by the big house for a while and finished up with a trip to Yellowstone.
Today’s travels.

The May – June leg of our Spring trip.