Miles MPG Avg. Speed Since Austin 989 45 54 Trip 2200 45.6 57 Food(today/budget) Hotel(today/budget) Trip Savings $70 / $140 $47 / $75 AAA – $6PriceLine – $216 Today is mostly about driving and getting the car serviced. I…
Miles MPG Avg. Speed Today Trip Food(today/budget) Hotel(today/budget) Trip Savings $26/$115 $89 / $90 AAA – $6PriceLine – $188 National Parks Annual Pass – $80 Carlsbad Caverns – $12 I had an…
Miles MPG Avg. Speed Today Trip Food(today/budget) Hotel(today/budget) Trip Savings $20/$86 $89 / $90 AAA – $6PriceLine – $118 Note: No mileage stats for today. At 5000 miles, the Prius demands maintenance by…
Miles MPG Avg. Speed Today 452 50.5 52 Trip 1209 46 59 Food(today/budget) Hotel(today/budget) Trip Savings $19/$55 $51 / $90 AAA – $6PriceLine – $48 We got up early (before 7:00) and had the free breakfast at the hotel,…
Miles MPG Avg Speed Today 756 43.6 64 Food (today/budget) Hotel (today/budget) AAA Savings $45.40/$50 $104.80/$50 $6 Today was all about the driving. I picked Aryn up at 10:00 and we were driving by 10:30. Plans have already changed a…
We’ll be using Priceline and BiddingForTravel for most hotel stays during the trip. Bidding For Travel is a forum with tips for successfully bidding on Priceline, as well as postings of successful and unsuccessful bids. For stops between destinations, we’ll…
The girl-child says she wants to hike the Grand Canyon … by which, she means more than walking twenty feet out onto the overlook and saying, “Yep, that’s a big hole, let’s head for Vegas.” This trip is going to…
Proving that there is simply nothing I’m not willing to sell in trying to find an actual, official corporate sponsor for this trip, I will be making the entire trip – 24 days, 25 states, 8000 miles, 129 hours of…
As with my kayak trips, we’ll be tracking hikes and walking with the Garmin eTrex 20. The Garmin Basecamp software will handle editing the GPS track to remove the crap that shows up because I forget to turn it off…
Amazon could almost be an official sponsor. As an Amazon Affiliate, Amazon gives us a percentage of anything purchased through links from this site. We’re purchasing most of the new items for this trip from Amazon and are using CamelCamelCamel.com…