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ependydad
Apr 30, 2014Explorer
Interestingly- doing the math, it's significantly cheaper to hotel it for this trip.
Between the 35 miles (each way) to/from the campground, avoiding the Baltimore tunnels, the extra hijinks in my town (avoiding a bad turn or low hanging trees over the road) and the to/from the storage lot, I'll only be driving 300 miles instead of 450.
The campground was a bit spendy at $60/night (not sure if tax is extra). The Comfort Inn looks like our room will be $65/night + tax or right about $70/night. The camping fuel cost would have been $180 but driving our car fuel cost will only be $45. Tolls (and there are a lot of them driving north on I-95 from just south of Baltimore, MD) will be cheaper at 2 axles instead of 4.
We'll still pack lunches for Saturday and Sunday, but dinners will have to be purchased out and then there's the whole deal of hotel beds and all that jazz.
Between the 35 miles (each way) to/from the campground, avoiding the Baltimore tunnels, the extra hijinks in my town (avoiding a bad turn or low hanging trees over the road) and the to/from the storage lot, I'll only be driving 300 miles instead of 450.
The campground was a bit spendy at $60/night (not sure if tax is extra). The Comfort Inn looks like our room will be $65/night + tax or right about $70/night. The camping fuel cost would have been $180 but driving our car fuel cost will only be $45. Tolls (and there are a lot of them driving north on I-95 from just south of Baltimore, MD) will be cheaper at 2 axles instead of 4.
We'll still pack lunches for Saturday and Sunday, but dinners will have to be purchased out and then there's the whole deal of hotel beds and all that jazz.
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