Day 52, Tuesday April 21st: Home and the numbers

Tuesday we were on the road by 07:30 and set out for home. It was an uneventful 500 mile drive. 

We pulled into our driveway about 17:00, unpacked, and unloaded the Serenity enough to put it in the barn. Everything is dirty, but that can wait for another day. 

Home 21APR2026

It is always nice to get home and the hot tub was calling us.

This trip was our longest in both distance and time that we have taken. I use 'RV Trip Wizard' to plan our trips and update it if we change plans. I am impressed with its accuracy. It predicted we would drive 10366 miles and use 648 gallons of fuel, it was very close. 

RV Trip Wizard

We drove 10243 miles and used 616 gallons of fuel at a total cost of $3251.

Our average price for fuel was $5.28/gallon, with the highest on the west coast at $7.60/gallon. Of course our timing for this trip could not be worse with what is going on in the middle east. 

The Serenity Falcon averaged 16.6 mpg. Our worst milage was 13.3 mpg in Texas where we had strong head winds and were often stuck in traffic. Our best milage was 19.4 mpg between Nevada and Nebraska when we had a nice tailwind. I drive between 60 and 65 mph most of the time.  It makes the math easy, every mile is about a minute.  

We were on the road for 51 nights all in the Serenity Falcon staying at campgrounds, Harvest Hosts, one Boondocker Welcome, Cracker Barrels and relative/friends' driveways. 

Since we used very little cash and I put all charges on my Citibank card, I downloaded the transactions and have a pretty good idea of our total expense for the trip. Including meals, fuel, tolls, lodging, food, Starlink, etc.; the total trip cost was roughly $8356. Considering the price of fuel, that seems reasonable to me. 

Our RV map is now only missing 2 of the lower 48 states. I think there is a Canada trip in our future that will pick up those two states. 

Serenity State Map

Just Montana and North Dakota left. Technically, we did visit both of these states when we went to Sturgis in 2014/15 but we left the RV in South Dakota and we rode the Harley to these states. 

It was a great trip, now back to the real world.