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Day 28 saw the horse smelling the barn, and we drove with determination to get home. The weather was beautiful, and the portion of the Oregon coastline that we were on deserves a week just by itself, but as always happens at the close of the trip, you want to get on home. So we drove consistently and got home just before 4 in the afternoon. Another motivation for driving so hard was that Catherine wanted to join Katarina at a cabinet consultation in the evening.

Once we got home, we completely unloaded the van and cleaned it. Once Catherine was done with the session with Katarina, she ordered some Teriyaki for us all, and I went and washed the van at the local car wash while the food was being prepared.

Today we will do laundry, put things away, and prepare for the upcoming work week.

I hope everyone has enjoyed following along with these daily trip reports as much as I have enjoyed writing them!

I’ll keep the list around and mail out to it periodically as we do trips that I want to capture on this blog. It’s been a fun trip!

Here are some stats for the trip.

Title	Value
How long was the trip	28 days
How many days of driving	23 days of significant travel
How many times were the bikes ridden	four or five days
Miles Driven	6,604
Fuel Stops	28
Fuel Consumed	432 Gallons
Fuel Cost	$1,724
MPG	15.27 mpg
Cost Per Gallon	$3.98
Cost Per Mile	$0.2611
Most expensive Fuel	$5.60 / Gallon - Peteluma CA Day 23 & 24 in Peteluma
Least expensive Fuel	$3.30 / El Passo TX - Day 10 - Mom’s house to Guadalupe
Oil	I checked the oil pretty regular - and never needed to add any
Most miles on a single tank	345 miles Day 10 - Mom’s house to Guadalupe
Most miles in a single day	608 miles Day 20 - to Joshua Tree
Highest elevation	8,154 feet Day 20 - to Joshua Tree
Maintenance issues	No significant issues. I did check the brakes at my cousin Eric’s place, and we discovered that the passenger side rear pads were shot - we made it home and have new ones coming.