We're home! It has been a long time since I posted an update.
Mile 7758: After 43 days and 2 hours, we are home. We have gone 5209 miles after leaving our daughter at Seattle Pacific University back on September 25th. We averaged 18.3 MPG on the way out, 21.0 on the way back, and 20.1 overall.
All in all, we had an amazing time, and I'm ready to leave again! We saw and experienced wonderful places, had great food, met interesting people, and enjoyed each other's company the entire trip. The weather couldn't have been nicer, with only 3-4 days with any rain at all, and a tiny bit of snow.
Thanks to everyone for following along with us! I'll have some follow-up posts with things we hauled all over and didn't use. Plus I have a ton of photos from my dSLR camera to go through. So don't unfollow us! We will be taking a trip south sometime in January or February that you can take with us, and I'm sure there will be outings here and there to post, too.
Here's the final map for our 2015 cross-country adventure. (Click
HERE for a link to Google Map, where you can zoom in.)
Fog seemed to be the theme in several photographs. Our day in the Badlands started so foggy that we couldn't see the walkway to the overlook from the parking lot. It cleared during the day, but the Badlands was very hard to photograph in low contrast lighting due to the low contrast views. Fog in Yellowstone was sometimes indistinguishable from the steam from the various thermal features.
And we saw a wide variety of critters, as well. bison, grizzly bear, moose, elk, white-tailed deer, black-tailed deer, mule deer, bighorn sheep, pronghorn antelope, coyote, red fox, prairie dog, river otter, sea otter, seals, sea lions, gray whale, bald eagle, golden eagle, and any number of birds and small animals.
Notable in what we did not see, are wolves, which I didn't expect to see, but I sure hoped. Didn't see any black bear, marmot, or pika, which are all pretty common in the areas we travelled.
