Tag: Griswald

Our Trip in Numbers

  • 7,671.6 Miles driven in total
  • 2,011 Photos taken with the camera (add in another 300 or so across four iPhones)
  • 642 Miles: longest travel day (Midwest City, OK to Fort Smith, AR, to Beale Street in Memphis, to Dickson, TN)
  • 151 Hours, 11 minutes, 54 seconds of total time in the car
  • 102 Miles walked/hiked
  • 80 Miles: shortest travel day
  • 49 License plates (surprisingly we found a Hawaii but never did find the elusive Alaska plate)
  • 27 Days
  • 25 Roller coasters (plus one Alpine Coaster and one Alpine Flyer)
  • 25 Clothing souvenirs purchased
  • 23 States
  • 20 Junior Ranger badges earned
  • 19 Gas station stops (some less populated than others)
  • 18 Different beds
  • 16 Christmas ornaments purchased
  • 13 Apples picked fresh in the orchards of Capitol Reef National Park
  • 12 National Parks
  • 11 Books read/listened to
  • 11 Bears
  • 9 Roadside attractions
  • 8 Free hotel breakfasts (5 skips of the free hotel breakfast because we were sick of free hotel breakfasts)
  • 6 National Historic Places
  • 6 McDonald’s meals (we tried to avoid them, but man they come in handy when you roll into a sparsely populated town at 9pm without having eaten)
  • 6 Time zone changes
  • 5 Lost items: camera charger/battery left in Utah hotel room, bracelet left on Capitol Reef welcome sign, pair of Keens left in Shenandoah parking lot, koosh ball down a street drain in South Dakota
  • 4 Bison traffic jams
  • 4 Escape rooms…so fun!
  • 3 Times we told the kids to “just eat some snacks” for a lunch…don’t judge
  • 3 Days of body boarding in the Atlantic Ocean
  • 3 Bicker Jar contributions (each child contributed once and then never had to again!)
  • 2 Great Lakes (Erie and Michigan)
  • 2 Rappels
  • 2 Days with rain that slightly altered our plans
  • 1 number of planned stops that we skipped (Devil’s Tower)
  • Countless Wall Drug billboards, silly family inside jokes (this is Nat Soo Pah), and memories we’ll always cherish