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!
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| 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!
