A trip update in numbers – and some pictures too

Back home at last! The trip was a little too long, both in miles traveled and number of weeks.  Everywhere we went, we wanted to stay at for too long (except the RV parking lots).

I don’t really have any exciting stories to tell or amazing pictures to post. Most of the pictures are just variations of this:

Above – a very nice man (sadly for me – not for him, happily married) who took my son fishing while I hiked with his wife and our dogs outside of Silverton, CO.

And this:

Here’s some trip numbers:

~ $3,500 – total trip spending (plus health insurance of $290)

47 days – total time gone

47 days – total days since my back lawn has been mowed (ugh)

~40 – number of firepit fires

$0 – spent on firewood

1 – # of fish I caught

1 – # of fish that got away from me

5 – # of fish the kid caught

$2 – amount he charges me per fish

Squillion – # of times the cat has meowed at me today

150+ – # of walks the dog was taken on

Trillion – # of times I threw the ball for the dog

100+ – pages written

Million – # of times I was interrupted while writing

$1,000 – approximate amount of damage done to the back of the RV going down some hellish road in the middle of nowhere

Billion – # of times the voices in my head said “OMG OMG OMG should we turn around? Holy cr*p there’s nowhere to turn around!”

2 – # of hours it took to go 7 miles down the death road

1 – # of hours it took to get back out

3 – total # of hours spent on the internet

3 – books I couldn’t mail because I showed up twice to the post office – on Sunday (doh!) and had no addresses written down because they were on a computer that was dead. They’re being mailed today – once the lawn is mowed. Maybe tomorrow…

4 – meals that a single Cracker Barrel meal can feed 2 people and some for the dog

8 – # of pounds I lost on the trip

30% – potato chip bag inflation index from Canada to the US (220g vs 297g) for a $2.50 at par bag cost

25%+ – size inflation of fast food portions from Canada to the US

-25% – cost inflation of fast food portions from US to Canada

0 – # of pictures of me taken on the trip

Loads – amount I missed reading everyone’s adventures