September 10-13, Long Trip Home
After leaving Gardiner, MT (Yellowstone National Park, north entrance), we just made an uneventful run back home. Our stops were one night each in Barr Nunn, WY (outside Casper), Pueblo, CO, and Amarillo, TX. We drove 1,555 miles in the last four days; NOT something that I would recommend, especially pulling a trailer! So, needless to say, we didn’t really take any pictures along the way.
We were sad to see the mountains disappear behind us as we left Colorado and headed into the flatlands of the Texas Panhandle, but all good trips must end eventually. Debbie is already anxious to line up another trip. I can say that Glacier National Park is one of the most beautiful that we’ve visited and we’ll definitely be going back.
Over the course of this trip, we drove almost 5,000 miles: 1,300 of those while sightseeing and not pulling the trailer. Diesel fuel prices were very reasonable with the exception of just a couple of places. Those were mostly adjacent to national parks or in really remote locations where there isn’t much competition. In those type of places, the price was over $3.00 per gallon. Luckily for us, there were only two times when we had to pay that much. The average price of diesel on our entire trip was $2.812 per gallon, but ranged from $2.499 to $3.17. Texas had the lowest prices by far, costing between $2.499 and $2.789 per gallon.
In the less than 18 months that we have had our trailer, it has been towed nearly 23,000 miles. We’ve been from NM to MT and UT to VA. The funny thing is that we have SO many places that we still want to see, and many to even see again.
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