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Considering the month, my grand total wasn’t awful. I traveled thousands of miles including four US states and one Canadian province and had some unexpected expenses like the UTI that made me go to the Minute Clinic and someone breaking my car window added hundreds of dollars. I’m also getting used to travel again and learning more about road trip style travel as opposed to international travel.

BUT there’s still improving to be done. Less spending = more travel and less doing work I don’t love. What was my grand total? Oh, that’s all the way at the bottom so you have to scroll down and earn me .01 cents for viewing ads. 😉

In month 1, lodging made up 46% of my spending. I’d like to get that down a bit and am on track to do so. If you look at Week 4 you can see a drop in average nightly spending and as I post this I’m mid-week 6 and have already cut average nightly spending by car camping more and more. It’s been two weeks since I slept in a bed that wasn’t in my car or on the ground.

I’d also like to continue honing my camp cooking skills so that I’m only eating out when I really enjoy it – like when I’m exhausted and just want someone else to cook, craving a BigMac (about once a month that happens), or socializing.

Expenses don’t include business expenses or flat rate personal expenses like car insurance, health insurance, my mailbox, and storage. Those actually might be the only other personal expenses.

…and formatting on the tables is still driving me bonkers but this is as good as I can get it for now. The joys of being your own untrained web designer.

WEEK 1: JUNE 9 – JUNE 15
TOTAL SPENT: $880.68

LODGING COSTS: $236.79

DATELOCATIONCOST
6/16/19Friends Pam & Marcel
Encinitas, CA
$0.00
6/10/19Friends Pam & Marcel
Encinitas, CA
$0.00
6/11/19Friends Pam & Marcel
Encinitas, CA
$0.00
6/12/19Bluffs Campground
San Onofre, CA
$43.96
6/13/19Bluffs Campground
San Onofre, CA
$43.96
6/14/19Castaic Lake Campground
Santa Clarita, CA
$20.00
6/15/19Aloft Hotel
Dublin, CA
$128.87

OTHER COSTS: $643.89

CATEGORY COST
Beverages/Eating Out$119.60
Groceries/Supplies$179.10
Gas$149.20
Car$0.00
Health$195.99
Other$0.00

*Notes: Beverages and dining out encompasses meals as well as my favorite expensive beverages: coffee and craft beer.

WEEK 2: JUNE 16 – JUNE 22
TOTAL SPENT:  $653.85 

LODGING COSTS:  $382.97

DATELOCATIONCOST
6/16/19Patrick’s Point State Park
Trinidad, CA
$42.99
6/17/19Harris Beach State Park
Brookings, OR
$30.00
6/18/19Bullard’s Beach State Park
Bandon, OR
$37.00
6/19/19Silver Springs Campground
Encumclaw, WA
$26.00
6/20/19Silver Springs Campground
Encumclaw, WA
$26.00
6/21/19Aloft Hotel
Bellevue, WA
$107.53
6/22/19Red Lion Hotel
Bellevue, WA
$113.45

OTHER COSTS:  $270.88

CATEGORY COST
Beverages/Eating Out$76.64
Groceries/Supplies$77.54
Gas$113.84
Car$2.86
Health$000
Other$0.00

Notes: Car expense = California Toll Roads that I actually remembered to log-on to the website and pay. There has to be a better system.

WEEK 3: JUNE 23 – JUNE 29
TOTAL SPENT:  $1,283.85 

LODGING COSTS:  $597.24 

DATELOCATIONCOST
6/23/19AirBnB – Entire Yurt
Athol, ID
$78.59
6/24/19AirBnB – Entire Yurt
Athol, ID
$78.59
6/25/19AirBnB – Entire Yurt
Athol, ID
$78.59
6/26/19AirBnB – Entire Yurt
Athol, ID
$78.59
6/27/19Hotel Ruby
Ponderay, ID
$107.53
6/28/19Hotel Ruby
Ponderay, ID
$105.79
6/29/19Raging Elk Hostel, Private
Fernie, BC, Canada
$69.56

OTHER COSTS:  $686.61 

CATEGORY COST
Beverages/Eating Out$143.77
Groceries/Supplies$94.91
Gas$97.52
Car$350.41
Health$0.00
Other$0.00

Notes: This was the week I got my car window replaced after it got smashed. Still finding pieces of glass in my car. Crazy how far they travel.

WEEK 4: JUNE 30 – JULY 6
TOTAL SPENT:  $504.61 

LODGING COSTS:  $326.51 

DATELOCATIONCOST
6/30/19AirBnB – Room in House
Revelstoke, BC, Canada
$77.61
7/1/19AirBnB – Room in House
Revelstoke, BC, Canada
$77.61
7/2/19AirBnB – Room in House
Revelstoke, BC, Canada
$77.61
7/3/19Revelstoke Campground
Revelstoke, BC, Canada
$26.91
7/4/19Revelstoke Campground
Revelstoke, BC, Canada
$26.91
7/5/19West Kootenay Camgrnd
West Kooteney, BC, Canada
$15.33
7/6/19Kokanee Creek Campground
Nelson, BC, Canada
$24.53

OTHER EXPENSES: $178.10

CATEGORY COST
Beverages/Eating Out$69.35
Groceries/Supplies$37.61
Gas$47.02
Car$0.00
Health$0.00
Other$24.12

Notes: Other = Two days co-working space in Revelstoke. Worth every penny…and made far more than I spent.

GRAND TOTAL: $3,322.99