Planning trips for the summer are going to cost us more and it sucks IMO ,gasoline and diesel jumped almost 4 % at the gate today plus oil is over $80.00 a barrel today and going higher. I am going to fill up today and worry about the Biden's and Granhelm light bulb ban later. :o . over $5.00 a gal fuel is more on my mind
Tell me about it. This is the year we plan to drive to Alaska. Look on the bright side - truck fuel is still cheaper than boat fuel and the MPG on the road is a lot better too.
Quote from: bobofthenorth on April 03, 2023, 08:20:35 AM
Tell me about it. This is the year we plan to drive to Alaska. Look on the bright side - truck fuel is still cheaper than boat fuel and the MPG on the road is a lot better too.
We're jealous. Wished we were going to AK this year. Just can't do it in consecutive years. Next year we hope to run Uhaul's largest truck up there filled with building material. Gotta hurry though because the clock is ticking approaching mid 70s. :o
Quote from: bobofthenorth on April 03, 2023, 08:20:35 AM
Tell me about it. This is the year we plan to drive to Alaska. Look on the bright side - truck fuel is still cheaper than boat fuel and the MPG on the road is a lot better too.
You will miss seeing Tom on the trip Tom always liked you stopping to see him and Doreen. Doreen sold off all their property and equipment since Tom passed away and now lives In Kingman
Maverick is coming thru here at $3.49 for diesel and $3. 26 for gas,, this even with a state tax of 0.28 passed last year..>>>Dan
Quote from: Utahclaimjumper on April 03, 2023, 09:12:47 AM
Maverick is coming thru here at $3.49 for diesel and $3. 26 for gas,, this even with a state tax of 0.28 passed last year..>>>Dan
Maverick can sell that cheap grade of fuel in Utah,they cannot sell it in AZ ,gasoline prices are about the same as your Meverick for gasoline, Walmart here is cheaper than the Maverick for diesel .Maverick is building a new station in Bullhead that should open in a few months but I notice they just have the 1 grade of diesel at the pumps,I see along our route we were taking diesel has jumped from $3.69 to $4.09 at Maverick in the last 3 hours at Perry where I fill up before Idaho.I always fill at Perry diesel is always $.50 a gallon cheaper than Idaho and the station has 3 grades of fuel
Loved our Alaska trip last summer. Nothing like it. Main point, don't hurry. We spent 3 months on our trip. Used Atlas Obscura to locate a lot of stops in Canada and Alaska. We crossed into Canada below Winnepeg and via Yellowhead highway. Enjoyed lighter traffic. Lots of frost heaves in Ak. Some so bad, 15mph max for a few miles in some places. Long bad section from Chicken to Tok. Fantastic varied scenery from place to place.
John you are blessed to have a top of the line navigator. We love the photo of Linda on the swing! :^
I guess all the February's I spent in Alaska made me not a great fan of the deep freeze.I do like to fish there
Funny thing, all last summer. the only time we needed a heavy coat was on the whale watch. Otherwise, shirt sleeve or Hoodia. Mosquitos were a pita. Learned to use the good spray and were fine then. Many reports of biting flies, but saw none of them. Might be time of year. Also not a lot of rainy days. Maybe 15 to 20 out of 90. Nice to have lots of daylight. Bought two black tee shirts at Walmart and hung over bedroom windows for sleeping. Fine then.
Mosquitos are so bad in the Kenai Peninsulas and Cook Inlet,they can take a F-16 fighter out of the sky,summer may be ok but fall and spring with all the mud and slush sucks.Our daughter and boy friend are looking at a place in Anderson it is one of the 2 boroughs in Alaska with no property taxes.I told her you are late buying property in Anderson when I was there they were giving you property to move there
The unusually dry summer may have helped keep them in check. After getting used to spraying each other with Deet, they didn't bother us much. And I hate mosquito spray. Never use it much at home in Pa.
Quote from: chessie4905 on April 03, 2023, 04:03:37 PM
The unusually dry summer may have helped keep them in check. After getting used to spraying each other with Deet, they didn't bother us much. And I hate mosquito spray. Never use it much at home in Pa.
The deer and black flies hurt when they bite you,they are just bad there for short period's I was told
We are planning to take all of our usual trips. Diesel fuel is just the cost of doing business if you want to travel. It could be better but fill it up and do a little driving.
Everybody has their own hobby and expenses. Just skip a few rounds of golf.
Melbo and Billie
Quote from: Melbo on April 03, 2023, 05:22:58 PM
We are planning to take all of our usual trips. Diesel fuel is just the cost of doing business if you want to travel. It could be better but fill it up and do a little driving.
Everybody has their own hobby and expenses. Just skip a few rounds of golf.
Melbo and Billie
There's no way around it if you want to go.I remember we got caught out in 2007 on a long trip, when we left fuel was $1.80 a gallon and cost about $250.00 for a fill up the last 3 fill up trying to come home were over a $1000.00 ea lol 1 was $1200.00 in New Mexico .We wanted to do around 10,000 miles this summer and visit friend's in Canada and some in the Dakota's I may need to up my budget from a $1.00 a mile to $2.00 ,LOL I am going skip the museums Jim Smith likes to do
Quote from: luvrbus on April 03, 2023, 09:02:33 AM
You will miss seeing Tom on the trip Tom always liked you stopping to see him and Doreen. Doreen sold off all their property and equipment since Tom passed away and now lives In Kingman
I always enjoyed Tom. That was a neat place they had and wandering through his equipment boneyard was like a history lesson.
We're gonna try and follow through with building an addition to the little shelter we got there in Tok which means when we run a large U-Haul truck up there next time we won't have the bus but can get by for what we have established there so far. We love the summers up there and like Anderson - Tok has no real estate taxes so we pay zilch while we're not there. that round trip last year cost us $8000 for fuel which will be about the same for the truck rental and fuel for it but going forward we can elect to fly for much less than fuel.
Fuel,food,power,insurance, taxes and taxes it just cost;I know people that have to choose between traveling and eating now,it is sad, like a friend said we are living in the high dollar great depression now 2023 version without the dust (Lol we get the dust here )
We're hoping to do our very first trip in the bus around the end of June to attend the Old Time Fiddler's contest in Weiser ID. It's about 300 miles from home. Shouldn't be too bad. I almost have all the house power components completed.
Quote from: Glennman on April 04, 2023, 12:36:23 PM
We're hoping to do our very first trip in the bus around the end of June to attend the Old Time Fiddler's contest in Weiser ID. It's about 300 miles from home. Shouldn't be too bad. I almost have all the house power components completed.
That is a good event we been going off and on for 25 years food is good entertainment is better at fair grounds at night the contest is a little boring.Hope you a have spot to park and the AC is working because it can get hot in Weiser and parking can be tough to find,we never had trouble parking we parked the wife's sisters house and walked a block
We are returning to Alaska for the second time this year. This fall we are headed to Alabama for a rally. Planning to be worth 0 at death. With higher fuel prices will have to die a little earlier.
Quote from: rusty on April 04, 2023, 01:57:04 PM
We are returning to Alaska for the second time this year. This fall we are headed to Alabama for a rally. Planning to be worth 0 at death. With higher fuel prices will have to die a little earlier.
It's only money Wayne like they say you can't take it with and you not going anywhere without it
Quote from: luvrbus on April 04, 2023, 01:13:32 PM
That is a good event we been going off and on for 25 years food is good entertainment is better at fair grounds at night the contest is a little boring.Hope you a have spot to park and the AC is working because it can get hot in Weiser and parking can be tough to find,we never had trouble parking we parked the wife's sisters house and walked a block
That is hilarious luvrbus! Our friends that we're going with said that the fun starts
after the contest, and that the contest is a little boring! We do have reservations with 50 amp spots for each of us (my friends have a '98 Country Coach). No other connections though, but we should be ok.
Quote from: Glennman on April 05, 2023, 01:21:15 PM
That is hilarious luvrbus! Our friends that we're going with said that the fun starts after the contest, and that the contest is a little boring! We do have reservations with 50 amp spots for each of us (my friends have a '98 Country Coach). No other connections though, but we should be ok.
They have a good time in the park after the contest,live music and great food,a friend of mine for years plays the harmonica there every year he has a web site but you can sample his music on youtube Dennis M Cooper he is the best on a harmonica and he will be putting on a free show
Quote from: luvrbus on April 05, 2023, 01:51:11 PM
They have a good time in the park after the contest,live music and great food,a friend of mine for years plays the harmonica there every year he has a web site but you can sample his music on youtube Dennis M Cooper he is the best on a harmonica and he will be putting on a free show
Yep, He's good! I watched one video that was 13 years old. Does he still play and go to the Fiddler's Contest?
Yep Dennis is always at the contest the Wieser area is home to him and Sandy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJUMOtOwicw&list=PL0A15498F98502C37 :^
Daaang, he's really good at that.
Jim
Quote from: Jim Blackwood on April 07, 2023, 10:29:15 AM
Daaang, he's really good at that.
Jim
Jim I couldn't help to notice your signature "I saw it on the internet it must be true" (again) on this post and it's proof through Cliff & Dave fer sure! :^
He is very good!
Quote from: luvrbus on April 03, 2023, 09:02:33 AM
Doreen sold off all their property and equipment since Tom passed away and now lives in Kingman.
Cliff -Does Doreen live anywhere near Char Holcomb?
RJ
I can't wait until California switches entirely over to Electric Cars, Trucks, and Buses. That should create an overcapacity of fossil fuels and the price of diesel should drop drastically. It shouldn't be very long until diesel is back down to about $2.00 per gallon. Then when other states follow suit, we should be looking at about $1.00 per gallon again. Don't you think? ;D
Right Gavin Newsom? :^
It doesn't cost to dream...
It doesn't work the same as 8 track tapes.
Four track neither, and probably not like cassetts either...
Glad we toured the country for a year when we had the Allegro bus. Shorter trips now. Indiana for the fall meet. 3 trips to Florida on the docket for the coming 12 months.
Oh.....and we are downsizing.