Monday, August 31, 2009

Final Re-Cap Of Our Wonderful Trip

We've had a lot of our friends tell us they'd like to go to Alaska but they can't afford it, the fuel alone would be too expensive for us. We I have to admit that fuel in Canada and Alaska was not as inexpensive as it is in some of the "lower 48" states but when you convert liters to gallons and change Canadian to U.S. Dollars, it's not quite as bad as we thought.


We first rolled out from Tarpley, Texas in mid February and didn't return to the "lower 48" until mid August, that's about six months on the road in a diesel motor home pulling a Honda CRV. The motor home has a 100 gallon tank and we never let it get much below a half of a tank before we fill up again.

A good bit of our trip in the "lower 48" we drove not over 55 miles per hour because a couple traveling with us had a car that could not be towed over 55. Once we got into Canada we lowered our speed to about 45 miles per hour due to the road condition in spots and also so that if we saw animals on the road we could stop in time and take pictures. It's not a good idea to be driving 50 or 60 and come around a curve and see a herd of Moose, Elk or maybe Bears standing in the road. They don't move too quickly and can be dangerous if they get spooked.

Here is a recap of our fuel expenses on our trip. We drove a total of 11,349 miles and used a total of 1131.25 gallons of diesel fuel. That figures out to be 10.03 miles per gallon, that's what happens when you drive at 45 to 55 miles per hour for the entire trip. The cost of the fuel was $3,411.74 which was better than we figured it would be. As far as we're concerned the trip was worth twice the price. With the cost of food, RV parks, gifts, etc. we figured the total cost of the trip to be a little over $5,000

Now that our "Trip Of A Life Time" is over and we're now back in the "Lower 48", I guess all we can do is look at the Blog and think back about the great time we had on the trip and begin to make plans to return to Canada and Alaska in 2011.



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