Road Trip Stats

After spending the first three months of 2022 going over budget, we finally reversed the trend in April by managing to stay slightly under budget. Heading in to May, I was fairly confident that we'd be able to stay under budget in the fifth month of the year too and was even … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 53 – May 2022

The first three months of this year weren't great for our budget, primarily because we spent that time in California which is an expensive place to be. I'd been hopeful that once we left California our budget would get back on track. Our spending in April went back and forth … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 52 – April 2022

Heading into March 2022, I was pretty pessimistic about our budget for the month. We'd already gone over budget in January and February due to us being in California and its high cost of living. Much of March was also spent in California, with the majority of our stays being … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 51 – March 2022

Having gone slightly over budget in January, we'd normally try to do better the next month. Heading into February, I was mildly optimistic that we'd be able to do that. When putting together last month's stats, our budget for February was looking OK. However, we'd not finished … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 50 – February 2022

January 2022 was due to be the start of our final year of what was meant to be a 5 year, 50 state road trip. It's taking us much longer than expected to tour the US though, so we decided last year to extend the trip to 8 years. That means what was meant to be the start of the … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 49 – January 2022

Our road trip slowed right down in 2020 due to COVID. 2021 saw an improvement in our willingness and ability to explore the US thanks to vaccinations and visiting states where we'd have access to a lot more outdoor activities. Every January I like to publish a post sharing … [Read more...] about Our Fourth Year Of Road Tripping – The Numbers

For the first three years of our road trip we managed to stay under budget over the course of each year as a whole. Coming in to December 2021, we were still under budget for the year, but knew we had higher-than-average spending on accommodation in the final month of the … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 48 – December 2021

Heading into November, I wasn't sure how well we'd do on our budget over the course of the month. Our accommodation spending was due to be average, but we'd be staying in Portland, OR for a couple of weeks which we anticipated would be a bit more of an expensive place than … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 47 – November 2021

Having stayed more than $100 under budget in September, I wasn't too optimistic about how our budget would look at the end of October. Our accommodation spending wasn't due to be too high, but we had an expected expense that would likely push us far over budget - a hot air … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 46 – October 2021

The last edition of our road trip stats (you can find it here) was a little different to normal as we were overseas for much of the month of August. That meant we had to adjust how we calculated our budget for August 2021, but with us being back on our road trip for the … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 45 – September 2021