We're here! Deandra happily dropped us off at our hotel and zoomed off in her truck a few minutes ago.

Here's some facts about the trip:


We arrived in Prescott Arizona after 4016 miles and seven days of driving. We brothers did not get in one argument the entire seven days.

We averaged 61 mph over the course of the entire trip. We gained 4 mph of that average after we entered the lower 48 (2300 miles into the trip).

In seven days we drove from the dead of winter to the heat of summer (it's 83 degrees here). That's hard to get used to, I'm dressed for cold and it's summer.

We stayed in six different hotels (including the one we are in now), two different homes (thanks to Mom and Dani and Scott) and a total of 66 hours in the truck. Not one of the parts of our world I just described will be part of our world now.

We saw Caribou, Elk, Bear, Porcupines, Deer, Red Fox, Bison, Moutain goats (today at hoover dam) and Moose. Plus the manliest woman I have ever seen, two strippers we followed into Vegas last night (they turned off before we did), twenty or so Canadians with the thickest Canuck accents I have ever seen, enough Flying J truck stops that we are now honorary truckers.

We saw three accidents. Oddly enough they were all aroud Salt Lake City. I don't think anyone got killed except possibly a few pigs.

In the truck we ate one box of FiddleFaddle, eight tubes of Bottle Caps candy, two tubes of Sweet Tarts, three bags of chips, six donuts, 36 cups of coffe and one hot cocoa served by a barista in a bikini, four homemade roastbeef sandwiches (thanks Mom), three terrible pies and some Turkish delight

We crossed two provinces and seven states

We got no tickets but one State Trooper did follow us for about a third of the way through Utah.

We passed more people in Bothel on the freeway than live in Valdez.

Matt won $860 (Canadian), I won $80(Canadian) in BC, Mark and I both lost $200(US) in Vegas.

Over all it was a great trip. We are taking Deandra and her boyfriend out to dinner tonight. Afterwords, if I can keep my eyes open I'll post more pictures.


Thanks a to to everyone that read our trip blog and especially thanks to everyone who commented.

Mike