Our Vacation in 2012
brought us through 17 states, three time zones, and
5,253 total miles. Our longest single-day journey was
exactly 700 miles, from Columbia MO to Beckley, WV.
We averaged 6.7 mpg, but that also accounts for the
generator running much of the time to provide A/C and
power in the coach when we weren't plugged in at a
campground. We maintained an average moving speed of
57.5 miles an hour. We used 819 gallons of fuel,
at an average cost per gallon of $3.52, and a total cost
of $2,771. We returned home with about 30 gallons still
in the tank, so to be accurate, we spent about a hundred
dollars less. Our total cost for lodging was less than
$250, and that included the three nights in Salt Lake
City. Our lowest elevation was sea level at the
Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, and the highest was 11,820
feet, at the Eisenhower Pass tunnel, in Colorado. We
crossed over 17 major river systems - Starting with our
own, the Delaware River, and then, east to west,
Susquehanna, Monongahela, Ohio, Wabash, Kaskaskia,
Illinois, Mississippi, Iowa, Des Moines, Missouri,
Platte, Green, Colorado, and then coming home the
Missouri and Mississippi again, the Ohio (twice in one
day!), the Kentucky, and
Kanawha, in West Virginia and the James River in
Virginia. |