Road Trip Stats

Every January since we started the road trip I've published a post sharing lots of different info and stats relating to our travel from the previous year; that includes both our 50 state road trip and overseas travel. For reference, here are our posts for previous years: … [Read more...] about Our Seventh Year Of Road Tripping – The Numbers

This is it! For the last seven years we've published our road trip stats each month, sharing in greater detail quantitative data about that previous month when it came to miles driven, how much we spent, how many hotel points we earned and redeemed, etc. Our road trip … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 84 – December 2024

After a dodgy first eight months of the year budget-wise, we did much better with our spending in September and October. However, I was a little less confident that we'd be able to maintain that low spending in November. I was overseas for 10 days during that time which helped … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 83 – November 2024

Wow! Heading into October I was confident that we'd stay under budget as our accommodation expenditure was so low and I wasn't anticipating us spending as much as normal as Shae was going to be overseas for a couple of weeks. Not because Shae's the one spending all the money, … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 82 – October 2024

Despite going over budget in nearly every month so far this year, we went into September feeling fairly confident about our ability to stay under budget in September. That's because most of the month was going to be spent in hotels we'd paid for using points, so our … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 81 – September 2024

We have a (sort of) bumper edition of our road trip stats for you today because rather than covering one month like normal, we'll be covering two months - July and August. The reason for this is that Shae and I paused the road trip back in mid-July to go visit the Finger Lakes … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Months 79 & 80 – July & August 2024

Another month, another case of us going over budget! In our road trip stats for May, when looking ahead to our spending for June I'd said that I wouldn't be surprised if we ended up going a couple of hundred bucks over budget. That's because we were spending the month in … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 78 – June 2024

When I'm wrong, I can be really wrong! In our last road trip stats post for April, I'd said the following about our spending for May: Taking all that into account, I'd be pleased if we manage to stay within $200 of our budgeted amount and would be pleasantly surprised if we … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 77 – May 2024

We headed into April optimistic about our chances of staying under budget for the month. That's because most of our accommodation for the month had been booked using points, so there was much less cash outlay in that category compared to normal. In the end we did stay well … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 76 – April 2024

After an abysmal month for going over budget in February, I'd been somewhat hopeful heading into March that we'd manage to stay under budget in the third month of this year. Everything was looking good until the last few days of the month when we had some sudden unexpected … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 75 – March 2024