Friday
Apr242009
By The Numbers
Friday, April 24, 2009 at 02:14AM
Been a while. I'll try to get going again. Thanks to all for your suggestions on where to go for vacation. Many, many good thoughts! In the end, I chose to return to a sure-fire winner, southern Utah. The trip was epic, truly epic. I'll try to post some of my photos soon. Here are some stats from the trip:
Total Days: 10 (Friday to Sunday)
States visited: 7 (Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Oklahoma)
Miles driven: about 3,800
Most miles driven in one day: about 1,000
Avg. miles/gallon: 18 (stretch in Texas killed the mpg...headwind of 30 mph dropped my mpg to about 14)
Avg. price per gallon: $1.95 (Thank heavens it wasn't $3.95 like last year!)
Estimated hours driving: around 80 (I figure about 50 mph average)
Hours listening to the radio in the truck: about 10
Total time talking to people on the trip (excluding a couple of phone calls home and a visit with my folks): 30 minutes
Miles driven on 4WD trails: 25
Average speed on 4WD trails: 6 mph
Miles hiked: 35
Longest single hike: about 9 miles (Navajo Knobs, Capital Reef NP)
Navajo Knobs (not my photo)
Primary destinations: Capital Reef National Park, Canyonlands National Park
Great stretches of road: Cottonwood Canyon Road through Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument; Highway 12 Scenic Route from Cannonville UT to Boulder UT; Burr Trail Road from Boulder UT to Notom Road, Capital Reef NP; Highway 95 south from Hanksville UT to Blanding UT; State Hwy. 211 from Hwy 191 to the Needles Visitor Center, Canyonlands NP; Telluride, CO to Silverton, CO; Highway 64 across northern NM, past the Brazos Mountains and through the Tusas Plateau and Mountains (awesome drive - photo below!).
Hwy. 64 in Northern NM (not my photo)
Greatest little pickup on the planet: my Toyota Tacoma
Do yourself a favor, go explore this part of the country sometime. There is (literally) no place on earth like it...completely unique. Beautiful views of mountains, desert, canyons, mesas, plateaus, rivers, gorges, rock formations and just plain bizarre landforms.
Again, just an EPIC trip.
Total Days: 10 (Friday to Sunday)
States visited: 7 (Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Oklahoma)
Miles driven: about 3,800
Most miles driven in one day: about 1,000
Avg. miles/gallon: 18 (stretch in Texas killed the mpg...headwind of 30 mph dropped my mpg to about 14)
Avg. price per gallon: $1.95 (Thank heavens it wasn't $3.95 like last year!)
Estimated hours driving: around 80 (I figure about 50 mph average)
Hours listening to the radio in the truck: about 10
Total time talking to people on the trip (excluding a couple of phone calls home and a visit with my folks): 30 minutes
Miles driven on 4WD trails: 25
Average speed on 4WD trails: 6 mph
Miles hiked: 35
Longest single hike: about 9 miles (Navajo Knobs, Capital Reef NP)
Navajo Knobs (not my photo)Primary destinations: Capital Reef National Park, Canyonlands National Park
Great stretches of road: Cottonwood Canyon Road through Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument; Highway 12 Scenic Route from Cannonville UT to Boulder UT; Burr Trail Road from Boulder UT to Notom Road, Capital Reef NP; Highway 95 south from Hanksville UT to Blanding UT; State Hwy. 211 from Hwy 191 to the Needles Visitor Center, Canyonlands NP; Telluride, CO to Silverton, CO; Highway 64 across northern NM, past the Brazos Mountains and through the Tusas Plateau and Mountains (awesome drive - photo below!).
Hwy. 64 in Northern NM (not my photo)Greatest little pickup on the planet: my Toyota Tacoma
Do yourself a favor, go explore this part of the country sometime. There is (literally) no place on earth like it...completely unique. Beautiful views of mountains, desert, canyons, mesas, plateaus, rivers, gorges, rock formations and just plain bizarre landforms.
Again, just an EPIC trip.
Reader Comments (1)
That's a fantastic trip Dave. I would like to check out Utah someday. Yuriko and I thought of you on our trip to Calgary a couple weeks ago when we listened to radio fuzz for a few hours...