Jim has calculated the final stats. There’s Part 1 and Part 2 followed by complete Southern Tier statistics.
Part 1. San Diego CA to Del Rio TX, (March 2020)
- Total miles: 1250
- Total riding days: 23
- Avg miles/day: 54
- AIS: 7129 min = 119 hrs = 4.95 days
- Longest AIS: 6:42 min. (Ft Hancock -Van Horn TX)
- Average speed: 10.5 mph
- Total Elevation: 41,363
- Biggest Elevation day: 4,897 Silver City -Hillsborough NM (57 mi. 9.1 mph)
- Longest mileage: 78 miles (Globe-Safford AZ)
- Rest Days: 4
- Flat tires: 5
- Rain days: 3
- Lodging stats are on: Day 27 Homeward Bound
PART 2. Del Rio TX to St Augustine FL (April 2022
- Total miles: 1730
- Total riding days: 30
- Avg miles/day: 58
- AIS (ass in saddle) hours: 9892 min=165 hrs= 6.9 days!!!
- Longest AIS: 7:43 (New Orleans-Long Beach MS
- Average Speed: 10.5 mph
- Total elevation: 38,083 ft.
- Biggest Elevation Day: 3,244 (Camp Woods-Lost Maples TX (41mi. 7.2 mph)
- Longest mileage: 81 miles (Tallahassee)
- Rest days: 4
- Flat tires: 1. (Jim)
- Rain days: 2 short showers
- Argument: 1. Jim and I (of course). He turned and lost me in Fredericksburg…I was pissed
- Lodging: (per night) 16 camping (private, state park, rv parks and truck stop)
- Lodging: 1 hostel
- Lodging: 1 bed and breakfast
- Lodging: 5 nights AirBnB
- Lodging: 2 nights with friends
- Lodging: 12 nights
- Total: 37 sleeps
OVERALL TOTAL: San Diego CA to St Augustine FL
ROAD STATS:
- Overall Miles: 2981
- Avg Miles/day: 56
- Overall AIS: 17,021 min = 284 hrs = 11.8 days😊
- Overall speed: 10.5 mph
- Total Elevation: 79,446 ft.
- Longest mileage: 81 (Marianna -Tallahassee)
- Total Days Out: 61
- Total riding days: 53
- Total Camping: 32
- Total motels: 20 nights
- Hostels: 2
- With Friends: 4
- Bed and breakfast : 1
- AirBnB: 5
ROADWORTHY STATS: As seen from the saddle. Roadkill, living critters and other interesting oddities
Roadkill:
- 4 boars – 1 really large one
- 1 alligator (about 3’)
- 1 porcupine
- Possums -most popular roadkill in the south. They have fierce teeth like a sabertooth rat. They have the most teeth of any land mammal.
- Armadillo – all the time. Almost as often as possum, but they are just too slow to live.
- Buzzards: same as above.
- Turtles – sometimes.
Living or Inanimate
- 1 Snapping turtle
- 1 bald eagle
- 2 watermelon trucks
- 2 dildos (sitting together on a piece of cardboard…on display)
- Logging trucks. At first they surprised me, but I learned they have tree farms everywhere.
- Confederate flags-quite a few, mostly in FL
- 2 Biden- Harris yard signs. Proud democrats in a red state obviously
- 2 Trump-DeSantis yard signs. Hopeful, obviously. Don’t think it’s going to happen.
- Zillion Trump varieties of yard sign, flags banners. Obviously strong Republican presence.
- charging cords. They are frequent. I guess people just toss them out the window?
- Mardi Gras beads. For miles and days we saw these in Louisiana. Purple, green and gold! They love Mardi Gras in Louisiana!
- Trucking tie down straps, bungees and related trucking attachments. Everywhere. (Always glad they don’t come flying off as I am riding. That could really hurt or worse!)
- Truck shredded tires.
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