Road Trip Stats

Our stats for last month are going to be a little different to normal because we paused our road trip for most of August as we traveled overseas to Dubai, Egypt and Jordan to celebrate Shae's 40th birthday. It's mainly our budget which will be a little different as we don't … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 44 – August 2021

Going in to July 2021 I knew it wasn't going to be a pretty month for our budget. The entire month was going to be spent in a hotel we were paying cash for rather than using points, so that was going to take up 84% of our budget. That left us very little leeway, especially … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 43 – July 2021

After going over budget by about 15% in May, I'd been hopeful we'd be able to get back on track in June. Our accommodation expenses were due to be lower than normal and so I was feeling optimistic, but that's been the case before and we still ended up going over budget due to … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 42 – June 2021

In our stats for April 2021, I mentioned that I thought we might go over budget during May. That was an understatement. We've done pretty well with our budget over the past 18 months or so, but there have been a few occasions where we've gone properly over budget and … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 41 – May 2021

April brought about a few notable things on our road trip. We got our first COVID vaccine shot, we changed states when we moved on from New Mexico to Arizona, Shae's mom and stepdad came to visit us for a week and it was my birthday. It was also a month where our spending and … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 40 – April 2021

When putting together our stats for February 2021, I mentioned that I had no clue how we'd do budget-wise in March as it would depend on how much we'd be spending on accommodation. At that point we didn't have anything booked for much of the month of March. If we ended up … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 39 – Mar 2021

February came and went particularly quickly. I guess that's to be expected seeing as it's the shortest month, but it doesn't feel like that long ago that we were in Austin, TX. Half of last month was spent in self-quarantine or being snowed in, so that had an impact on how … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 38 – Feb 2021

We're now into year four of our road trip, but the first month was spent not doing much in terms of the road trip. Shae and I left New Orleans on January 2 and started heading west towards New Mexico. We took our time making our way across the country though, stopping for much … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 37 – Jan 2021

COVID meant that 2020 was a bit of a wash for our road trip as our travel slowed right down. We tried to be as responsible as we could seeing as we don't have a home, so we moved less frequently and didn't do many activities. Our road trip still sort of continued though, so … [Read more...] about Our Third Year Of Road Tripping – The Numbers

December 2020 - the end of our third year on the road. It's hard to believe we've been road tripping it for three whole years now, although when looking back to when we set off on January 1, 2018, it feels like that was a lifetime ago. 2020 was, needless to say, a bit of a … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 36 – Dec 2020