Statistics

I'm sitting in The Chief moving at the alarming speed of 30-40 miles per hour in heavy traffic on the New Jersey turnpike. We are on our way to Rosendale, NY for a cafe show and are, of course, late again. We left around noon from our nation's capital to make the 300 mile trip which even at 50 mph. should have only taken us about 6 hours. But the traffic is horrendous and we are doing the best we can to crawl across the east between these monstrous cites with all their people and cars blocking our way. If we have any luck, we MIGHT make it to our destination by show time. This is stressful to say the least and with the open spaces of the American West far behind, I'm going to numb my worries with statistics.

As you followers of the blog might remember, we ran out of gas the second day of the tour in Golden, Colorado. The result of this unfortunate incident was the meticulous recording of miles travelled, gas prices and fuel efficiency in a brown spiral-bound notebook stored in the arm rest of the front passenger seat. Perusal of this journal yields much in the way of information regarding touring the west in an 1982 Winnebago. Betse and I crunched the numbers and with the help of a calendar, the following statistics are submitted for the permanent record:

Number of days on tour: 34
Number of states visited: 15
Total miles travelled: 8249
Gallons of gas purchased: 1310
Average miles per gallon: 6.3
Highest price paid per gallon: $2.30 (Searchlight, Nevada)
Lowest price paid per gallon: $1.82 (Moorcroft, Wyoming)
Total amount spent for gas: $2595.70
Number of fuel filters used: 7
Total bags of ice purchased: impossible to determine but easily over 100
Number of nights-camping: 16
Number of nights-hotel: 12
Number of nights-nice folk's homes: 3
Number of nights-parking lots: 3