Home again

8-8-09

We arrived home about 2:00 PM yesterday. It has been a fun trip and I very much enjoyed seeing all the country we covered, it was everything from magnificent snow covered mountains to farmlands. We made friends with our traveling companions and expect to travel again with Bill and Carol.

We traveled 8088 miles spent $3618.00 for gas. The highest price we paid was in Watson Lake, Yukon Territory $1.29 per liter which equals $4.90 a gallon. The price ranged from that to a low of $2.49 a gallon in Oregon. We got 7.4 miles to the gallon average.

The only other major expense we had was campground fees. We didn't keep exact count on those but they ranged from $0 in roadside rests, where we stayed several nights, to as much as $35 a night. We spent a good deal of time at the Elk's clubs along the way. During the trip I learned that you can have a guest with another RV at many of the Elk's clubs. I'm not sure if that apply s to them all, but every place we asked it was allowed. Bill, being retired Air force was able to get us into some very nice military campgrounds as guests, which were very reasonable.

As we arrived home Margaret yelled “yippeee” she is very glad to be home and has been smiling like a kid with a new pup. I know that she also enjoyed the trip as I did, but it was a long ride home, we drove 300 and 400 miles a day after we left Hyder, AK. The trip up didn't seem as long because we stopped along the way and visited relatives and friends and were in no hurry.

So ends our Alaska trip for 2009