Final Data Breakdown

Total Miles Driven: 7,991 (Shelly would not let me drive around the block 10 times...)

Total Hours in the Car: 127 hours (feels like 130 at least)

Average Speed (just since Tuesday due to a GPS malfunction): 62.4

Highest / Lowest Price for gasoline:

• $3.59 per gallon in Grand Canyon, Arizona (aka "the only game in town")


• $2.47 per gallon in Jackson, Tennessee

Lost Hubcap(s): still only one (thanks for asking)

Seeding tickets (some thought this category's omission last time was an admission): 0

Best Meal of the trip:

• Me - (tie) the crab and tomato sandwich at Nick's in Pacifica, California / Enchilada Pollo con Mole at El Chorlito, San Simeon, California


• Shelly - (tie) BBQ Chicken sandwich at Wawona Hotel in Yosemite Valley, California / Spinach and cheese ravioli at Kathleen's in Pasadena, California


• Jacob - still fish and chips at Nick's in Pacifica, California


• Malcolm - still the chocolate chip pancakes at Denny's in Santa Nella, California


• Emma - Macaroni and Cheese at Casa Grande in Glenn Allen, Virginia

Number of Traffic Accidents witnessed (only the aftermaths) - 2 (last one looked pretty scary - http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/254717)

Total $$$ in tolls: $63.65 (no bill from Chicago as of yet... fingers crossed)

Number of Times Completed the License Plate Game - 2* (not technically true due to the omission of Hawaii from each game) / I think people from Delaware hide all the time in their basements since they are so hard to find on the roads...

Number of Pictures Taken: 3,784 (not including the kid's cameras - ugh!)

Number of pictures taken since Tuesday afternoon when we left Monument Valley: 85

Number of States Travelled Through (a highly requested category): 25 (though we came ridiculously close to Michigan, Nebraska, North Carolina, and West Virginia) and we were supposed to travel through Alabama and Mississippi before a change in plans to arrive home sooner

Favorite Hotel Room (by family vote): Platinum Hotel, Las Vegas

Coolness Ratios:

• Seeing the NYS sign - 7 out of 10
• Getting stuck in traffic on the NJ Turnpike with 3 hours to go: 2 out of 10
• Allowing the kids to watch Avatar again: 3 out of 10 (for us), 10 out of 10 for Emma
• Dinner last night at Casa Grande in Virginia: very cheap and yummy 7 out of 10
• Seeing the house for the first time in 22 days: 10 out of 10
• Seeing the pool for the first time in 22 days 5 out of 10
• Seeing water in the basement under the hot water tank: 1 out of 10

No worries (hopefully), we now have hot water and no discernible leak continuing...

home.