The whole plan is to take your own foods, etc. Now this trip was of course done with a Travel Trailer and two people. I have also done the trip with with a rental van and several people, which reduces costs even more. The more people the less the cost.
One thing you will want to note is that we bought the America the Beautiful Park pass at the very first National Park we came too. This 80.00 pass seems expensive, but not if your visiting multiple parks within the trip. You can easily go over that 80.00 by visiting each park individually with no pass.
Our budget was $1000.00 each and we only went over that by about $30.00 This was due to the fact that fuel prices were higher out there then I orignally estimated. What i normally do is over estimate mileage to compensate for fuel increases, which really helped us.
If our trip was 5000, i budget for 7500. That helps with fuel estimations.
THE BUDGET ------------------------------
The Big Trip Budget
Wal-Mart Gro
Wal-Mart Gro
Colonial Pantry Fuel 50.00
Camping Fee 26.50
Hu
Flying J Fuel 67.00
Blueline Travel Fuel 63.46
Camping Fee 24.50
Triple H Fuel 51.01
National Park Pass 80.00
Windmill Fuel 67.85
Wal-Mart Gro
Parking
Mt View Camping 31.07
Read Eagle
Shell Fuel 50.00
Camping Fee 7.50
Chevron Fuel 50.00
Kum and Go Fuel 49.00
Loves Fuel 55.02
Camping Fee 2 nights 82.96
Propane Fill up 14.00
Shell Fuel 40.00
Alpine Oil Fuel 55.02
Pleasant Valley Camping 23.67
Safeway Fuel 34.00
Wal-Mart Gro
Giant Fuel 40.00
Speedys Fuel 52.78
Jun
Petrified Chevron Fuel 15.00
Cono
Phillips Fuel 50.08
STu
Cono
EZ GO Fuel 43.00
Camping 22.00
Toll 8.50
Toll 8.50
Cono
Shell Fuel 65.00
Crossroads Fuel 45.00
2056.68 TOTAL
1028.34 (ea
This is a very inexpensive trip. Especially if you take a large van and 3 or 4 people go. Just be sure to call ahead for rooms if you don't have a camper. I recommend a camper. We had so much fun.
This just goes to show you that you can take trips and not spend a fortune on them.
Any questions? Just email me at kythunder@gmail.com.
If you plan on taking a similar trip I can give you more details on what to do or not to do, especially if its out in the same areas as what my blog covers. I've been out there 5 times now.
Later
JJ
2 comments:
Hey Joey,
It's Jamie (Spoon), I saw your article on Columbia Magazine and began looking at it. The pictures are amazing. It looks like you hade a great trip. The last time we spoke was at LJS and you were going back to school, wondering if you are. I hope you are doing well. I would like to hear from you sometime, you can email me at snowball023@hotmail.com.
Hey Joey,
It's Jamie (Spoon) looks like you had a great trip. The pictures you have are amazing. I was just looking around on Columbia Magazine and saw your story and began looking at it. Hope you are doing well. The last time we spoke you were going to school, wondering if you are. Love to hear from you.
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