Cost of wandering

We got home yesterday from the Great Road Trip. Went up through San Antonio for Ky Derby day, on up by way of Lubbock to Fort Sumner, where I visited one of my oldest and dearest, thence to Trinidad, Colo., to see wife's WWII-vintage uncle. We came back across the Okie Panhandle and Amarillo, Abilene, and like that. The cost of gasoline was $277. Makes one take pause before proposing one of those jaunts that run twelve or fourteen hundred miles.