Trip Statistics and Goodbye

Here's the map of the entire trip:

So, you see, we actually followed the original plan:


Total Miles Driven: 6,630
Home to St. Louis: 3,316
St. Louis to Home: 3,314

Bicycle Miles Ridden: 280

Average Gas Mileage: 36.45 MPG

Total Trip Cost: $2,083
Four nights in hotels: $255
Twenty nights camping: $308 (Average campsite cost: $15.40)
Eating at Restaurants: $399
Groceries: $490 ($450 was subtracted from the trip cost, since that's our normal grocery bill)
Gasoline: $398

Total Weight Gain Lena: -2 pounds
Total Weight Gain Al: -4 pounds
That's right, we both lost a small amount of weight. Possible reasons:

• Even with the driving, camping life is less sedentary than normal life. There's a lot of walking around, setting up camp, packing, getting water, getting firewood, etc.
• We lost muscle, since we did less vigorous exercise than on our normal home schedule

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Sister's House to Home

We had an uneventful final day of driving. At a rest area I watched this Raven work hard at getting things out of the trash.

When we encountered the coastal fog we knew we were almost home.
It felt great to pull into our garage after our big circle of driving around the western U.S.

How many miles did we travel? How much weight did we gain? How much money did we spend?

Find out all these things in the next post (it will take me a few days to put it together).

Collier State Park to Sister's House

The rain stopped by morning and we stuffed things into the car for the last time (yeah!), and watched a chipmunk clean up the rain-soaked tortilla crumbs.

Then it was back to the snow again, at crater lake, the deepest lake in the U.S. (1,932 feet deep).



They had an Xanterra-managed lodge here also, which was tres-chic.



After a Chinese lunch at Ma's in Shady Cove, and a wifi session in White City, we arrived at my sister's house in the woods near Medford, where we slept in one of those "real-bed" contraptions again.


Stay tuned for the final day of driving, and a summary of the trip with a map, total costs, and total weight gained.