By the Numbers: A Road Trip

Two Medicine Lake, Glacier National Park

Earth and sky, 

woods and fields, 

lakes and rivers, 

the mountains and the sea

are excellent schoolmasters, 

and teach some of us more

than we can ever learn from books.

– John Lubbock

 

Yellowstone - Grand Canyon of Yellowstone

 

 Summer Road Trip 2024: By the Numbers

• We left the morning of July 30 and returned home late afternoon August 10.
• We traveled 4,021 miles by car. 
• We spent about 76 hours in the car.
• We listened to 3 3/4 audio books.
• I took 800 photos - give or take.
  
• We traveled through six states (Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and Colorado.)
• We took a brief foray into Canada and used our passports for the first time.
  
• We visited three National Parks - Glacier, Yellowstone and Grand Tetons - and points in between. 
• We ate several foods featuring huckleberries.
• It took five loads of laundry to get us back to our starting point.
  

Grand Tetons

 

  Stats for Randy

• True confessions: I don't pay attention to this stuff. But when I asked him about things he wanted to add to my notes, the subject kept coming up, so I finally relented. 
• Gas was $3.25 per gallon when we left home. It ranged from $3.50 to $4.25 a gallon along the way, the highest being in Jackson, Wyoming. 
• Our car averaged 27 miles per gallon. 

And while it's always an experience to travel, there's no place like home for me.

Stafford/Reno County line, Kansas

 

I'll have a lot more from our trip. But downloading photos and writing takes some time. My pledge to you: I promise I won't share every photo I took.