Living Frugal in Mexico & USA

Married Couple that likes to travel but husband does not like to spend a lot of money.

Thursday, August 10, 2006

We left home at 9:00 a.m. Friday, Aug. 4th. We ate at Wild Hourse Casino in Pendleton for $10.00. Most of the time we don't buy drinks as we have our own drinks in the car. A gallion of OJ for $2:00, will last us for two days. If we want to have rum in our drinks we get a gallion which will last three or four days, $14.95. We had to get gas in Pendleton, I got it at Arrowhead Travel, It's next to the casino, $43.01. We stoped at Catherine Creek State park near Union in eastern Oregon, camp for the night was $8.00. The camp ground had flush bathrooms. We were able to inflate our air mattress from the outlet in the bathroom.
10.00
2.00
14.95- plus @ $3.09 Car gets better milage with plus.
43.01
8.00 = 77.96 For the day

Saturday, Aug. 5 and 6
We ate at Denny's in Ontario, $10.10, just before crossing the border to Idaho.
I started to get sleepy, we decided to stop and get me a Pepsi, $1.00, We also stoped at all the rest stops and vista's on the freeway. I started feeling better and made it to Lake Walcott State Park. We stoped in Hayburn before going to the lake were we bought more gas. Had some problem with the self serve (Oregon does not allow self serve) so we did not compleatly fill the car, $22.45. I also had to buy some imodium, $5.03. Our camp site at the lake was for two nights. Flush restrooms and showers, with hot water. $32.00.
We went back into Rupert, to see my friends new home. We went with them back to Twin Falls were we ment up with another couple that was there for our friends wedding. We ate at Sonic, we don't have Sonic in Oregon, $9.93.
The next morning, after a wonderful shower, we went back to Rupert to help transport things back to the park for the wedding. Ok so things happen and my camera, had a re-chargable battery, will it ran out of juce and I did not have the charger with me, so we had to get a new battery, $13.93. We ate at Subway, $10.00. Total for the 5th and 6th.
10.10
1.00
22.45
5.03
9.93
13.93
10.00 = 62.51 for two days.
Aug. 7th
Wedding over and we start back for home.
We take route 30 instead of the freeway. Fill up the gas tank before we leave $31.40 (plus at $2.99). We stoped in Twin Falls to view Shoshone Falls, $3.00 park fee. We felt it was worth it.
We had Subway again for $10.00. Then we made our way back to Oregon and Farwell Bend State park as the road to Silver City in Idaho was closed. Tent camp site $15.00. Bathroom and shower included. OJ juice $2.00. We drove into Huntington and ate there for $6.45. We ordered one of the specials had it split for us.
31.40
3.00
10.00
15.00
2.00
6.45 = 65.85 for one day

Aug. 8th
We drove on to Pendleton, were we again needed to fill up the gas tank, $46.50. We did the underground tour for $20.00. Subway this time was $11.00. We camped at the Deschutes River State Park, rustic tent site, $8.00. We ate at McDonalds for $7.30. We were not able to find an outlet for the air mattress. We had to buy battarys for the other air pump. $6.00.
46.50
20.00
8.00
7.30
6.00 = 87.80 One day

Aug. 9th
We ran out of gas for our stove so we could not make coffee in the morning. We stoped at a safeway and had our first ever Starbucks coffee, $6.85, we also sharied a croisant. Almost back home and knowing we had nothing to fix to eat we stoped at Red Lobster (I had a gift card) $3.99. Filled the car for the last time on this trip, $34.75.
34.75
3.99
6.85 = 45.59.

We spent a total of $339.71 for 6 days. Average was $57 a day. We were trying for $50 a day but with the battary problems we went over.
We had a great time saw the things we wanted to see. I will try to post some of the pictures later.

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