After we made our way down the Pacific Coast Highway via road trip, Shaun and I visited another friend for our last goodbye to Japanese noodles and basically booked it home. We did manage to write a few stats down about our road trip that we found to be particularly amusing.
- Total miles driven: 4857
- Total number of states visited: 5
- Number of cities slept in: 9
- Number of friends visited: 5
- Number of gas stations we filled up at: 19
- Number of cups of coffee Erica drank (Shaun doesn’t like coffee): ~30
- Most common car seen: Convertible Ford Mustang
- Best hotel/motel: Treasure Island
- Worst hotel/motel: Craig Motel
- Alcohol bought on the trip: 30 cans of beer, 28 bottles of beer, 12 bottles of cider, 1L of tequila
- Hours spent driving: 93
- Number of dust storms caught in: 3
- Number of rainstorms caught in: 2
- Number of nights in a tent: 7
- Number of belongings run over by runaway vans: 2
- Number of new friends made: 23
- Number of MREs consumed: 12 between Shaun and I
- Highest elevation: ~8500 ft
- Number of pictures taken: 1597
- Number of work zones driven through: TOO F*ING MANY
- Number of highways driven on: ~21
- Number of near miss accidents: 2
- Number of historic sites visited: 2
- Number of rest stops visited: 1
- Highest gas price: $3.59/gal
- Lowest gas price: $2.89/gal (the car requires premium)
- Names of places of interest: Surprise, AZ, Pie Ranch, Rainbow Road, Santa Claus Lane, 411th Ave (seriously, why do you need to go that high?)
Doesn’t like coffee?! What?! Aside from that, very cool. Twenty one highways! I miss road trips.
@Evan: Caffeine has no effect on the guy so he doesn’t really enjoy it much. Poor car, Shaun was a bit saddened by the amount of miles we put on his baby (not to mention the stress the cooler put on his leather seats in the rear seat).
@Erica: What’s he drive?
@Evan: 2003 Subaru WRX (his baby)
@Erica: Drool. My first car was a 93 baby blue Subaru Impreza. I blew up the clutch playing in the snow and I still kick myself for killing it!
@Evan: He is sold on Subaru. He drove all 10 hours of San Fran to LA so he could drive the curves on the Pacific Coast Highway.
What does he drink instead of coffee? He can’t be one of those caffeine-free freaks??
@Ayngelina: He drinks things with caffeine, but they say that due to his ADD it doesn’t work. He can have 4 shots of espresso and go to sleep.
this looks like a whole lot of fun. i should go on a road trip sometime
Oooo lots of miles driven, not jealous of that! And caffeine doesn’t have an effect on me but coffee still tastes goooood! Your whole trip sounds amazing!
Erica, you forgot to quote the number of brain cells lost! Certainly looks like you both had an unbelievable experience. One of those trips that will take you down memory lane for many years to come.
@Jason: I don’t want to think of how many were lost. 😛 I’m surprised I remembered this much.
$3.60 for gas – that’s the pain of Premium I guess. This post makes me yearn to go on a road trip throughout the US. I’ve always wanted to do Route 66, but I think I’ll have to settle for perhaps a Iowa – Texas trip next month.
@Matt: If you’re stopping through Austin, let me know. I make a damn good tour guide.