Road Trip Stats

When writing up our stats for December 2019, I mentioned at the end of that post that I thought we'd be going over budget in January. The reason why is because, as sometimes happens on the road trip, our accommodation costs were due to be higher than normal. It turns out that … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 25 – January 2020

Ever since we set off on our 5 year, 50 state road trip in 2018, we've published stats posts each month where we share how we did with our budget, how many miles we drove, how many hotel points we earned and redeemed, etc. At the start of 2019 I also published a post sharing … [Read more...] about Our Second Year Of Road Tripping – The Numbers

A few weeks ago, I shared how we were planning on changing how we calculate our road trip budget. You can read more about that here, but as a quick reminder we've decided not to include business expenses that are unrelated to the road trip itself in our monthly budget. Before … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 24 – December 2019

When writing up our stats for October, I mentioned that I expected us to go over budget in November due to how high our accommodation costs were due to be. That prediction came true, with us going pretty far over budget. Despite that, we did better than I'd been expecting and … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 23 – November 2019

It's the start of a new month which can only mean one thing - it's time to share our stats from October 2019. In case you're not familiar with these posts, every month we publish a bunch of different stats relating to the previous month - our budget, miles driven, hotel points … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 22 – October 2019

When putting together our stats for last month, I said that I was hopeful that we'd manage to stay under budget during September, but that I'd had my hopes dashed before. Well, dashed they were again! It was all going so well, but then a couple of unexpected expenses came … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 21 – September 2019

Month 20 - how did that come around already?! The first half of last month was spent in Bali, with the second half being spent in Virginia. Similar to when we went to the UK and Amsterdam earlier this year, we haven't included our Bali spending in our budget for August as that … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 20 – August 2019

When putting together our stats for June, I mentioned that I wasn't feeling too optimistic about what our spending would look like in July. A significant portion of our budget had already been allocated for hotel costs, so it wasn't leaving us much leeway in our budget for … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 19 – July 2019

When I put together last month's stats post, I had no idea how well we'd do with our budget in June. We weren't due to spend much on accommodation as we'd be staying in hotels using points for half the month and a couple of fairly inexpensive Airbnbs for the other half. … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 18 – June 2019

As we headed into May, I wasn't feeling too optimistic about how closely we'd be able to stick to our budget. To be honest, I'd figured our budget would be wrecked in the first few days of the month because of how much I anticipated us spending at the Kentucky Derby. In the … [Read more...] about Road Trip Stats: Month 17 – May 2019