Camping in this economy

We try to do 6 to 8 trips a year. One being about 10 days, the others on weekends and of course Memorial Day Weekend. The 10 day trip is usually 200 - 250 miles (one way) and the weekend or 3 day weekend trips are between 60 and 100 miles (one way). This year for Memorial Day, we did something a little different and we brought our boat with us to New Melones Lake in the Gold Country of California. We will be doing that again later in June to another Lake in No. Calif and again sometime in July or August; maybe to Lake Tahoe.