How One Family Saved Money by Motor Touring
This family with guests numbered five adults. They made a motor camping tour from Bemidji, Minn., to Kansas City, Mo., and return. They had an inexpensive car, equipped with a modest [[6]]camping outfit. They made the excursion described in thirty-one days, traveling at the average leisurely speed of seventeen miles an hour. Their total outlay for food was $66.76, and the entire cost of gasoline and oil for the journey was $34.27. This brought the total traveling expenditures for a party of five adults from Bemidji to Kansas City and return to the sum of $101.03.
Had this party taken the same tour by rail the cost would have been as follows:
| Excursion fare Bemidji to Kansas City, 5 adults | $233.75 |
| Pullman berths, both ways for 5 adults | 60.68 |
| Meals at $1.00 per for 5 adults, 31 days | 465.00 |
| Hotels, 25 nights for 5 adults at $6.50 per night | 162.50 |
| Total | $921.93 |
| Cost of tour, motor camping | 101.03 |
| Money saved by motor camping | $820.90 |
The railroad expenses, as will be observed, are put very low, as there is no allowance for such items as tips. And, furthermore, the party of five are assigned to only three Pullman berths. The hotel expenses, too, are drawn down as low as possible. In fact, had the trip been taken by rail the estimates given would have been exceeded.