The Tour by the numbers

Start:                          May 23, 2012

End:                            June 17, 2012

Days on road                26

Miles:                          7616

Fuel:                           268 gallons ($975)

Pictures posted:           129

Pictures taken:             ~2000

States driven:

1. California
2. Nevada
3. Utah
4. Colorado
5. Nebraska
6. Kansas
7. Missouri
8. Oklahoma
9. Texas
10. New Mexico
11. Arizona

Parks visited:

1. Bonneville Salt Flats
2. Dinosaur National Monument
3. Rocky Mountain National Park
4. Pawnee Indian Lodge Excavation
5. Palo Duro Canyon State Park
6. Carlsbad Caverns National Monument
7.  White Sands National Park
8. Saguaro National Park
9. Pima Air and Space Museum
10. Grand Canyon National Park
11. Salt River Park

The Best

• Speed limits: Texas, even the back roads were 70MPH
• License plates: New Mexico – cool colors, turquoise, red, yellow
• Cops: Texas, I saw zero fuzz
• Stress: Northern Kansas at the farm
• City:  Phoenix Arizona, clean, new, uncrowded and the girls ;-)  
          Manhattan Kansas, awesome sushi
          Flagstaff Arizona, a big city in a small package
          Lubbock Texas, quirky

The Worst 

• Speed limits: New Mexico, 4 lane divided rural freeway 45MPH
• License plates: Oklahoma, some Indian dude with a bow 
• Cops: Arizona, I saw dozens but they left me alone at 80MPH
• Stress: LA, tense driving and the smog
• City: Carlsbad New Mexico is a dirty little oil patch town
          LA county (Orange and Ventura are cool)