Road Trip Stats

Oh dear. When writing about our stats for January 2024, I said the following when looking ahead to our spending for February: I'm a little pessimistic about our chances to staying under budget. Our combined spending on accommodation and pet fees is going to be fairly high. … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 74 – February 2024

January 2024. The first month of the new year and the first month of the final year of our 50 state road trip. Heading into January I thought it'd be touch and go as to whether we'd be able to stay under budget. Our accommodation spending wasn't due to be terribly high, but … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 73 – January 2024

Every January I like to publish 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: 2022 2021 2020 … [Read more...] about Our Sixth Year Of Road Tripping – The Numbers

Having celebrated New Year's Eve in style in New York City (more on that in a future post), 2023 has come to an end. That means it's time to share our stats for the last month of the year. As the month went on, it seemed like we were doing really well with our budget and so I … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 72 – December 2023

2023 hasn't been great for our road trip budget. Heading in to November we were more than $2,500 over budget for the year, with most of that overspend being due to accommodation, eating and drinking out and, at times, spending a surprising amount on groceries. I said in last … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 71 – November 2023

After another month of being $500 over budget, as we headed into October I wasn't overly optimistic about our ability to stay under budget. I mentioned in last month's stats post that: I don't think we'll be wildly overspending, but I wouldn't be surprised if we end up a couple … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 70 – October 2023

In last month's road trip stat's post I mentioned that I was mildly confident that we'd stay within budget. I'd said: Our accommodation spending won't be crazy high, but unfortunately pet fees are set to be a total of $500 which is far higher than normal. If we get lucky, we … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 69 – September 2023

2023 hasn't been great on our budget. Inflation over the last couple of years has played a fairly big part in that, but we've also found ourselves spending more on accommodation overall, as well as an outsized amount on eating (and drinking!) out. Heading into August I wasn't … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 68 – August 2023

July had so much potential for our budget. The entire month was being spent in hotels using points, so our accommodation spending would be much lower than normal. That would give us a chance to catch up on some of our budget overspend from earlier this year. As is often the … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 67 – July 2023

Heading into June, I wasn't at all optimistic about our chances of staying under budget for the month. We'd already gone far over budget in May - primarily due to higher than average spending on accommodation - and June was due to be much of the same as we were going to be … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 66 – June 2023