Alaska Trip Statistics

The following is a list of the expenses and distances etc for this little trip:

Destinations:
The trip went from Vancouver (via Alaska Hwy) to :
Dead Horse in Alaska (via Dalton Hwy),
Kenai Peninsula,
Inuvik in NWT (via Top of the Word Hwy and Dempster Hwy),
Vancouver (via Cassiar Hwy).

Duration:
The trip started on 27th July 2009 and went till 20th August 2009.. a total of 24 days.
There was only one day on which I did not ride... no real breaks.

Distance:
The total distance for the round trip was just over 13000km.
That means an average of 550km/day.

Fuel Usage:
There were 44 fuel stops on the trip.
The total volume of fuel used was 646 litres which cost a total of $725 which gives an average fuel efficiency of 20.5km/l and an average fuel cost of $1.12 CAD per litre.
This also equates to about $30 per day or 1.5 full tanks of gas per day.
The most efficient riding achieved about 22km/l and the least efficient was about 17km/l.
The bike also consumed about 3 litres of oil.

Bike Components:
The bikes components also took quite a hit and I had to replace the following components either during or immediately after the trip:
1 rear tyre (was brand new at start of trip)
1 chain (was 60% used before trip)
1 set rear brake pads (were brand new at start of trip)
2 sets front brake pads (were 80% used at start of trip)
1 Rear Sprocket (was 80% used at start of trip)
Several Oil seals on the bike also needed replacement.


Trip Costs:
The total trip costs (including the fuel costs mentioned above) was about $1650 CAD.
Note that I camped every night and only stayed at "pay for" camp sites on three nights. This meant that accommodation costs were "absent" and thus the remainder is mostly fuel and food.
This is a cost of about $70 per day which is pretty good going for Canada and USA.

So, food (including beers) was about $30 per day (eating in town...not camp cooking)
Fuel was about $30 per day
And assorted other minor items were about $10 per day. (oil, road tolls, etc)

Note: If I had stayed in hotels and motels then I believe this would have added about $60 per night which would nearly double the cost of the trip!


So, thats it for this little trip... Now for the next one :)))