And yet more Stats : USA
It’s been over a week since we last counted the numbers, so here we are again.
Whilst I’m sure you already know you can click on the progress map (which you can click on anytime over there in the right-hand rail) of this blog at anytime to see where I’ve been day-to-day, it’s always good for me (if no one else) to stop once in a while, take stock of where I am and have a look at the numbers to see how it’s going.
[ Today is day 50 now which is almost two-thirds of the way through the projected 76 days. This still doesn't include though the four days that it took me to drive up to Maine to start in the first place, or the time & money spent driving back from California to South Carolina at the end of it all. ]
Travelling:
Days on the road: 50 / Miles driven: 11,591 / Average miles per day: 232
States:
Been through: 36 states / Visited: 36 ‘same name’ towns & places that share names as places on the tube map
Gas/Petrol:
Total gallons: 630 / Total spent: $1,601 / Average Gas Mileage (MPG): 18.88
Most expensive: $3.15 (Cooke City, Beartooth Pass, Montana) / Cheapest: $2.24 (Missouri)
Accommodation:
Campgrounds: 23 / Stayed at friends: 13 / Stayed in motels: 12 / Slept in car: 2 / Money spent: $1,298
Lost items (Aside from the car break-in)
One folding chair, one tarpaulin, one pillow. All placed on top of the roof when tidying up the car, and then driven off forgetting that they were there.
After living in London for the first 33 years of my life and working for the 
So for ten weeks in June, July and August 2009, I drove 20,000 miles around the the lower 48 contiguous states of the USA visiting towns and places that shared the same name as places on The London
Didn’t you hear the chair crash to the ground as you drove off?
you’d of thought, wouldn’t you? but no… i am that deaf, or stupid, or both. whatever.
You’d think you would have learnt your lesson the first time and would now be religiously checking the roof everytime you leave a campsite. Stoopid boy. x
i almost, *almost* left my shoes behind yesterday on top. but i remembered to check!
You’re not deaf or stupid. You just play your music so loud you wouldn’t hear a train coming right at you.
@bevmor, what’s that? i didn’t catch what you said.