Road Trip Stats

The second half of November is always incredibly busy for me as one of my sites covers gift card deals and there are always a ton of them leading up to Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Finding all the deals and writing about each one essentially becomes a full-time job in … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 35 – Nov 2020

We managed to stay well under budget in September, but heading into October I wasn't overly optimistic that we'd managed to stay under budget. That was mainly because our hotel stays were due to take up a larger proportion of our budget than normal, but we also had a couple of … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 34 – Oct 2020

After just scraping through under budget in August, I was optimistic that we'd do even better in September. That's because most of the month was going to be spent in hotels booked using points, so our accommodation spending would be lower than normal. Not only did we stay … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 33 – Sep 2020

Another month has come and gone where we didn't end up doing much at all due to COVID-19. We spent most of August in Florida which is another reason we didn't do much. We'd booked our stay there a couple of months ago just before cases started spiking in the Sunshine State; … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 32 – Aug 2020

When writing last month's stats post, I mentioned that I wasn't too optimistic about how our budget would fare in July. We were due to stay in paid accommodation for much of the month and the room rate meant we'd be spending more on accommodation in July than we do on … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 31 – Jul 2020

Our May stats were better than normal from a budget perspective as we managed to stay almost $350 under budget thanks to fairly low accommodation costs and the fact that we didn't do many activities due to COVID-19. I didn't think June's budget would go quite so well as our … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 30 – Jun 2020

When putting together our road trip stats for April, I said that I wasn't sure if we'd end up being under budget in May because at the time of writing that post I wasn't sure where we'd be spending the second half of May. As it turned out, we extended our time in Pueblo, CO at … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 29 – May 2020

April 2020 was the first full month of our road trip where we didn't really do much other than visiting Petroglyph National Monument a couple of times. As a result, we hardly spent anything on activities last month. As I'm sure a lot of you are experiencing, we spent more on … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 28 – April 2020

Wow, a lot has changed since last month's stats post. Back when I wrote that, we were looking forward to my parents visiting from the UK and were planning on spending time seeing all of Utah's National Parks, the Grand Canyon, Rocky Mountains and more. That wasn't to be as … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 27 – March 2020

Our budget in January was better than I'd initially expected. You can read January's stats in full here, but to give a quick recap we went over budget by $88.26 in the first month of this year. The reason that was better than I'd expected is because I thought we'd go over … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 26 – February 2020