Our Progress

Monday, November 8, 2010

The bottom of the barrel

I hope we've now reached our lowest point as we made some pretty good progress last week, going 90.5 miles, which was our highest total since week 7!  Not great, but definitely an improvement.  We are now scheduled to arrive on June 30, 2011, so despite our increase in mileage we've added on another 10 days to our journey heading into the winter months!

Looking at our road ahead we've got 96.5 miles to Lawton, OK, then another 127 to Estelline, TX, 169 miles to Clovis, NM, and another 221 to Albuquerque.  This is a long leg of our journey, in fact, the longest leg of our journey.  After this it should start to get a little bit easier on our way to California:
414 miles to Phoenix, AZ
368 miles to Oceanside, CA

So we've got 1395.5 miles until we reach the west coast!  With 8 more weeks to go we would need about 174 miles per week if we were to make it to California by the end of the year.  We've done that before 5 weeks, but it has been a long time since we've gone that far in a week.  With the days growing shorter for most of the time, it will definitely be tough.  Let's give it our best though!