We spent our last night on the road at Cholame, Calif., at a crowded rest area on highway 46. This rest stop is just down the road from the James Dean Tree – the tree planted at the spot where Dean was killed in a car crash in 1955. (He ran into a Cal Poly student who pulled out onto the highway in front of his car.) The highway is still two lane, still very crowded, and still one of the most dangerous highways in America.
Here’s a snapshot of our trip, by the numbers:
Miles driven: 10,800
Miles per gallon, average: 12.09
Most expensive fuel: $3.89 (Calif.)
Least expensive fuel: $2.19 (Okla.)
States visited: 26
Stay-in nights…
RV parks, 26
National park campgrounds, 9
Corps of Engineers campgrounds, 8
Wal-Mart parking lots, 7
Forest service campgrounds, 5
Casinos (Terri says “Woo hoo!), 4
State park campgrounds, 3
Rest areas, 2
Didn’t stop at all at night (almost 1 - ok, 2)
National parks visited:
Smoky Mountain
Theodore Roosevelt
Yellowstone
Grand Teton
Yosemite
2 comments:
Okay so how did you manage "1-ok almost 2" nights of not stopping?! I can't even pull all-nighters anymore and I've yet to even grace 25! I hope you didn't let MOM drive?! LOL :-)
Two times couldn't find RV park or Wal-Mart, so kept going until afer midnight. I think that is what he means. TS
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