A Final Few Fascinating Factoids for the Finale

Saturday started out fine, with a forecast for moderate to heavy winds later on in the day, so we sailed out of Refuge Cove and headed south, with the wind, and anchored in Grace Harbour, about an hour and a half south of Refuge. It was a peaceful anchorage, with couple of other boats also in there. We just relaxed for the day on Saturday, and spent the evening listening to CDs, sipping wine, and playing a bit of Scrabble, before retiring. Sunday was another mostly-lazy day, with a bit of cleanup on the boat. On listening to the weather forecast, it seemed appropriate to sneak out of Desolation Sound to the Copeland Islands, where we could easily jump over to Lund to drop off Linda for the car, and then head back, when the gales of the next couple of days had blown out. So that's what we did, and anchored in an quite blustery Southeast wind. With a change of direction forecast for later in the night, we also set out a second anchor to hold us safe in a Northwest Gale. Then we settled in, even turning on our diesel heater as the temperatures dropped. Off and on rainshowers and gusty winds prevailed through the day and night, but the forecast for the northwest gales changed, and got delayed a day. So instead of crossing for home on Wednesday, as planned, we decided Tuesday morning was the day for that......up early, we motored into Lund, and Linda leapt off the boat onto the dock at Jack's Boat Yard, to get the car, and drive home using the ferry from Powell River. I sailed off, and arrived at our berth at Comox Marina by early afternoon, after a very pleasant sail in light to moderate breeze. Linda arrived shortly after. We had agreed to leave our house to the house-sitters until the end of the month, so we will spend the night on the boat in Comox, before arriving home on Wednesday. We'd managed to not spend a lot while staying on the boat, with just a few groceries our expense for the 8 days, and Linda's ferry trip. So time to see how we did at the end, and overall for the trip.
Week 19: (plus 1 day -Wednesday): Distance travelled: 109.7 KM plus 56.7 Nautical Miles (on the boat) Gas: $20.00 Food: $212.65 Accommodation: $0.00!!! Other: $45.65 Total: $278.30 Over $400.00 under.
And for the trip, our totals to Wednesday, Sept 30 (one extra day over the 19 weeks):
Time on the trip - 134 days/nights - At $100.00/day, total budget is $13,400. Total spent : $13, 374.00 - We made it, with $26.00 to spare!
We rode on 8 ferries in total - cost for all 8 was $925.30
One bridge (PEI) with a toll: $42.50
For accommodation, in total, we spent 76 nights in a tent, 24 nights in peoples homes (friends and relatives), 1 night in a ferry (to NFLD), 19 in Kamping Kabins, 5 in Motel/Hotel room, and on our boat - 9.
We visited 44 relatives, and visited 50 friends, of whom 31 were "old" friends, from past days.
Total Distance travelled over the whole trip: 26,996 KM. (this total is from our odometer in the car.....by adding up our weekly totals, we get 26,135 - obviously we missed a few days of addition somewhere!