By the Numbers

Any engineers out there? Or perhaps just numbers-driven people like me? Maybe the more social among us are curious about the good people who supported us along the way. Here are some stats and trivia about our long drive around America!

Driving

• 14,774 miles (23,638 km)
• $177 - most expensive hotel (Hampton Inn Savannah, GA)
• $176 - speeding ticket (Dustin in Virginia)
• 128 - total days away from home
• $66 - cheapest motel room
• 63/44/21 - nights spent at [friends/hotel/camping]
• $44 - daily parking in Chicago
• 6 - bottles of Dramamine (Dustin needs those to work from the car)
• 4 - new tires in Portland
• 3 - sub trips (Dustin+Kim: 7 days in Prague; Dustin only: 2 days in Austin, 4 days in Taipei)
• 3 - nicks in the windshield
• 2 - oil changes
• 1 - fill up at a BP station (we were desperate for diesel)
• 1 - nights of free camping (at Death Valley's Emigrant Campground)
• ? - some crazy number of dollars in tolls (evidently a plague east of the Mississippi and north of the Mason Dixon Line, jeez!)

Media

• 12,204 - pictures
• 181 - video clips
• 110 - blog posts
• 43 - total GB of pictures/videos
• 42 - copies of Ubuntu handed out
• 4 + 2 - cameras and camera phones used

Geography

• 35 1/2 - states: [Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, (Washington DC), Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico]
• 13 - National Parks: [Blue Ridge Parkway (Smokey Mountains), Washington DC Monuments, Rocky Mountain, Dinosaur, Yellowstone, Crater Lake, Redwoods, Yosemite, Death Valley, Grand Canyon, Painted Desert, Petrified Forest, White Sands]
  n.b.: Niagara Falls, Mount Washington, and Meteor Crater are remarkably *not* National Parks
• 3 - provinces: [Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia]
• 2 (+ 3) - countries: [United States, Canada + Germany, Czech Republic, Taiwan]
  
  
• 2 - Canonical offices (Montreal, Lexington)
• 1 - organ removed (Kim's gall bladder)

Our Gracious Hosts

• Corey and Alissa (Irving, TX)
• Allen and Donna (Addis, LA)
• Lindsy and Michael (Addis, LA)
• Leigh and Jeremy (Prairieville, LA)
• Bob and Gerri (Kiln, MS)
• Craig and Cheron (Kennesaw, GA)
• Pete and Amber (Union Mills, NC)
• Kate (Arlington, VA)
• Connor and Margaret (Hershey, PA)
• Mathias and Patricia (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
• Joe and Tammy (Brookline, NH)
• Stefan and Laurie (Marlborough, MA)
• Danielle and Matt (Pittsburgh, PA)
• Scott and Suzanne (Plymouth, MI)
• Taylor and Wendy (Indianapolis, IN)
• Nate and Casey (Chesterfield, MO)
• Tim and Linda (Helena, MT)
• Mike and Tressa (Bellevue, WA)
• Kees and Kirsten (Portland, OR)

Our Wonderful House Sitters

• Vanessa and Rip
• Jill and Anthony

Our Awesome Pet Sitters

• Corey and Alissa
• Vanessa and Rip
• Betsy

Friends/Family Who Visited Us on the Road Who Were also Away from Home

• Corey and Alissa (Savannah, GA)
• Josh (Washington, DC)
• Bob and Gerri (Chicago, IL)
• Kees (Chicago, IL)
  - I happened to see Kees in 4 different cities (Prague, Boston, Chicago, Portland)
• Tim and Linda (Jackson Hole, WY)
  - I also happened to see Tim in 4 different cities (Prague, Jackson Hole, Helena, Taipei)

Another big thanks to our hosts, house sitters and pet sitters.

Are there any other random numbers or trivia you're curious about?

:-Dustin