Mark and Christy VT to Cali '08-'09 Road trip recap and stat sheet

Start - Brattleboro, VT
End - Oakland, California
Start date - 12/3/08
End date - 1/6/09
Long driving days - 15
Total days - 35
Miles Travelled - 6,139
States crossed - 16
Fuel stops - 39
Total $ spent on gas - $484.67
Total Gallons Consumed - 272.66
Average MPG - 22.5 (keeping in mind it was an all wheel drive car and heavily loaded down)
Average Price per Gallon - 1.777561799
Most Expensive gas - $2.25, Happy Texas
Least Expensive gas - 1.35, Sandy, UT

Cities stayed - 15
People stayed with -
Friends houses - 9
Family - 3
Motels - 3
New friends (previously unknown folks who kindly hosted us, of course we made about 1,000 new friends) - 2

Items left or lost along the way -
iPod
sweet pair of polarized singlasses (r.i.p)
Leatherman tool in holster (I got it back, Thanks, Tate!)

Most Awesome non-x-mas item acquired -
Thule roof rack assembly with correct towers and Q-clips for Subaru Legacy with no
window frames or rain gutters. what are the odds? Thanks Jenna and Karl!

Most highly recommended book read on the trip -
Flight by Sherman Alexie. I read it in one day, you can too. It's great.

Movies watched -
How to draw a bunny, Milk, The Times of Harvey Milk, Loose Change, Brain Candy, Elf,
Shrek, Iron Man, Hellboy, The Music Within, Planet Earth documentaries, an obscure british comedy I'll never remember the name of and a TON of Metalocalypse.

Sock hops - 1
Hot tubs - 2
Hot springs - 3
Canyons - 4
Mountain passes - 5
Dogs we met along the way - 21
Fights, disagreements, difficulties, etc. as one might expect when two people are stuck in a car together for over a month - 0