How One Family Saved Money—How a Farmer Did It—A Boston Woman—Two New York Couples—Four Ohioans and Their Outfit.
Some motor campers carry an elaborate equipment of supplies and live in the height of comfort at comparatively moderate expense. Motor camping, however, is also a possibility for the very limited purse. It is the purpose of this chapter to give a few specimen budgets and experiences of campers.
Almost any way you may arrange it a motor camping trip can be made to save your vacation money.
Even if you tour as luxuriously as is possible for a camper, you will save a great deal of money over what your tour would cost traveling by rail and stopping at hotels.
Details of different camping factors, such as equipment, are covered in subsequent chapters.
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 |