Saturday, September 20, 2025

Day 16 - Heading Home

I’m not sure I told the kids that we would not set an alarm but whoever woke up after seven should wake us all up. I woke up at 7:04. I don’t think they were very happy.

We grabbed Starbucks for breakfast and were around the road by eight. It was only 3 1/2 hour trip thanks to overnight charge from Kalahari so we pulled in just before noon.

Home sweet home!


Trip Stats:

  • 16 days
  • Appx 2000 miles - Tyler did all but 7 hrs (4 blocks)
  • Cost to charge: under $225
  • 6 different hotels 
  • 10 states plus Canada
  • 6 National parks, so many monuments, toured 2 federal buildings, visited 3 cemeteries 
  • Daytime Weather - only 1 rain of rain, 72-82* hottest day in NYC, coldest in DC
  • Transportation: car, subway, bus, boat/ferry, golf cart, escalators/elevators, horse carriage, Uber, rickshaw, hotel transfer
  • Total Steps: 154,142 = 64.3 miles
  • Avg steps per day 9,634
  • Different Uber driver - 18
  • Floors ascended in elevators - 306
  • Flights ascended - 65