Martha writes: > > Does anyone want to guess what the gas for this trip is gonna cost? Let's > say (to make things easy for *ME* from near the San Francisco area). Let's > take paramaters like: > > getting not very good gas mileage > having to pay high rates for gas, especially outside the US, with the exchange > and with the gas price monopoly which must exist on the legs of the > trip where gas is not very often available Shelley and I spent $572 on gas on our 7,800 mile GNATT trip. We had pretty good conditions though - i.e. highway miles and cheap gas, most of the time. I would set aside a minimum of $800 for the Alaska trip. > > Does anyone want to suggest how much money to save ahead for food? I > realize that this might seem obvious (just figure out what you spend > now), but eating in the camper on the road can cost quite a bit > different than eating at home. Let's assume just sort of "average" tastes > and spending habits, like not eating out more than once a week, not eating > beef wellington and lobster tails for dinner, and so forth :) I think food will cost considerably less than gas on this trip. Still, I would set aside at least $500 for food (or around $20/day). -David ============================================================================ David Schwarze '73 VW Safare Custom Camper (Da Boat) San Diego (Actually La Mesa) '72 VW Westfalia Camper (Da Project) California, USA '73 Capri GT 2800 (Da Beast) e-mail: des@teleport.com '87 Mustang Lx 5.0 (14.17@99.34) http://www.teleport.com/~des '93 Weber WG-50 (Da Piano) ============================================================================
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