One month in of our seven month road trip around the USA
About a month ago I made a post here detailing our plan to see almost every state in about 7 months. Well the first month has just come to a close and we ended up spending it all in California as we expected, and after rolling through Las Vegas we are now almost at Zion National Park.
Here are some photos from our month in California. Like it says I'm not much of a happy snapper, so the photos aren't really very personal, but I'm proud of them and the journey we've been on to get them.
Basically we landed in Los Angeles and picked up our van on the second day, then got right into it. We went LA to Joshua Tree, then San Diego, the Pacific Coast Highway, San Francisco, Redwoods, Danville to see relatives, Yosemite, Kings Canyon & Sequoia, then Death Valley.
The van is an ex-rental 2010 Chrysler Town & Country from Jucy. The purple thing up top is a bed, the back seats also covert into a bed (so it sleeps 4), and the tailgate opens for access to the kitchen. It's a bit slow going up hill, and we've needed to replace both batteries, but it's working better than expected. Yes, we know the colour...stands out...but it's a bit fun too, though we may end up painting it at some point.
As for camping, we've only paid for a handful of nights in National Park campgrounds, with most nights being in Walmart/supermarket carparks, Casino carparks, and BLM/public land/National Forests. Our biggest expenses have been petrol (roughly about $30 USD per day) and food of course, but we still need to carefully look at how much we're really spending. Broadly speaking, after buying the van and insurance, in this first month we've spent about US$5,850 between the two of us. This sounds like a lot but for our sanity we need to keep in mind that a fair chunk of this went into setting ourselves up in the van (sleeping bags, kitchen utensils etc), repairs to the van (batteries replaced, rooftop bed fixed after low clearance incident), and quite a few luxury items like $150 on a steak dinner in Vegas...
Since leaving California we've been through Las Vegas, and now we're on our way to Zion National Park. The next month will be spent in Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico before we head to Texas and then further east through a whole bunch o' states.
If you have any questions, recommendations, or advice we'd love to hear it, and if you want more updates we'll be back in a month to hopefully tell you we've spent a whole lot less money than this month.
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