Home!

I pretty much just booked it home. I wanted to shave a little drive time off my first, longer, driving day. So, I left Los Alamos in the evening and stayed at the Cracker Barrel in Albuquerque. Besides a 45-minute dead stop on the highway due to a big accident north of Bernalillo, it was an easy drive.

I woke up bright and early, hit the Frontier Restaurant for breakfast, and hustled to Kingman. Again, I parked for the night at Cracker Barrel. It's so great to have that option!

The Kingman Cracker Barrel was my first-ever overnight stop on my first foray with Poppy 18 months ago. Gotta love Crackerdocking!

I got there in time to have a walk. 

Next morning, onward toward home! Took a very slightly different route for a few miles and ended up finding Poppy, just in time for a fill-up too!

All along the way, I marveled at the geology. I've driven that route dozens of times, and it's always a beautiful drive. No photos, but did manage some screenshots from the app ROCKD.

TRIP STATISTICS

• 31 days
• 6828 miles
• 133:59 hours of driving
• 15.9 mpg (according to Poppy)
• 15.58 mpg (according to my handwritten documentation)
• Average speed: 50 mph

• Fuel Economy on first half-ish (Santa Barbara, CA to Dunedin, FL) (my records): 17.15 mpg
• Average speed first half: 50 mph
• Drive time first half: 76:11 

• Fuel cost varied from $2.399/gallon (Texas) to $4.399 (California)

• States visited: 13. California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Oklahoma!

31 nights

• 9 -  Harvest Hosts
• 7 -  Friends' and family's beds (inside)
• 5 -  Boondockers Welcome
• 4 -  "Moochdocking" at friends (outside)
• 3 -  Cracker Barrel
• 2 -  Walmart
• 1 -  Hotel 

Thank you for coming along on my journey! I have visions of next year's trip already, and in the meantime I will be making some shorter jaunts.

Till then!