Preparation By The Numbers

The tallies are in and we’re in the home stretch to setting sail. There’s still plenty of work to do (as always) but soon enough the tally on lines tied to the dock will be zero.

• 4.5 – Hours each way from Dallas to Kemah, Kemah to Dallas
• 9.25 – Hours spent in the car with each other, each trip to Kaleo
• 323.75 – Total hours of drive time so far!
• 19,320 – Miles traveled between Dallas and Kemah, to date, since we bought Kaleo
• 1 – Trip to go before we set sail!
• .5 – Average trips to Sonic per weekend
• 95 – Average summer temperature in Kemah (projects got started early in the morning and our A/C got a lot of use)
• 0 – Trips to the ER (though Christie tried to get us there at least twice)
• 6 – Overnight guests aboard Kaleo so far (awesome crew!)
• 5 – Trips going aloft (up the mast)
• 5 – Stories high (the height of the mast!)
• 2 – Times ran aground so far (been able to free ourselves without help – so far)
• 1 – Tows back to our marina slip (engine overheated in the Bay, was certainly worth having insurance)
• 2.5 – Average trips to West Marine per weekend
• 2 – Average product return/exchange trips to West Marine per weekend
• 5 – Immunizations (just to be safe)
• 20 – The most frequently asked questions that we happily answered here
• 24 – Hours we’ll be spending together each day in our new Huck Finn lifestyle
• 2 – Potentially crazy (in love) people aboard

Thanks to Windtraveler for this ‘by the numbers’ idea.