santila Posted March 15, 2011 Share #1 Posted March 15, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) Looking for an able bodied men who would like to go to Yellowstone for 7-10day on location photography. Will need to share 60% of fuel cost, what would be the only expense beside your own. Should not be an alcoholic nor drug user and smoker, preferably member for this forum with interest of nature/wildlife photography. Would like to depart shortly in March from PO (Point of Origin) Winthrop,WA. to and around Mammoth Hot Spring and return to the PO.. Have truck with camper, refrigerator, stove, heater, drinking water and extra bunk. If interested send me PM through this Forum Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bill Allsopp Posted March 15, 2011 Share #2 Posted March 15, 2011 Looking for an able bodied men who would like to go to Yellowstone for 7-10day on location photography. Will need to share 60% of fuel cost, what would be the only expense beside your own. Should not be an alcoholic nor drug user and smoker, preferably member for this forum with interest of nature/wildlife photography. Would like to depart shortly in March from PO (Point of Origin) Winthrop,WA. to and around Mammoth Hot Spring and return to the PO.. Have truck with camper, refrigerator, stove, heater, drinking water and extra bunk. If interested send me PM through this Forum What an offer! Work etc. prohibits Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted March 15, 2011 Share #3 Posted March 15, 2011 Airfare? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
neli Posted March 15, 2011 Share #4 Posted March 15, 2011 Is it an invitation to share expenses and make nice pictures for ourselves, or is it a job posting? Regards Cornelius Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
santila Posted March 16, 2011 Author Share #5 Posted March 16, 2011 Foto opportunity to make photos for yourself. Airfare not included but you can fly to Seattle and drive over to my place in E. Washington. Diesel is getting expensive, locally I seen today for $4.70/gallon but I think it is cheaper in Montana. Estimated trip is arond 1000 miles, 10-12/gallon, approx 100 gallon diesel. Park has one campground with heated WC and may be shower. I would be open to other destination some other time, camper will only accomandate max. 3 person. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
santila Posted March 16, 2011 Author Share #6 Posted March 16, 2011 I would like to make it clear that I am not guiding or it is not my attention. I am an avid photographer and sadly my wife can not travel with me and on the other side as I said fuel is getting expensive and prohibit to operate my truck on longer trips. On longer trips I am only seeking that you chip in into the fuel cost. I am open to many other suggestion if time frame allow, Grand Canyon, American South West, West Coast of USA, right here in Washington State, Alaska, British Columbia etc. I have experience all these places. For instance from overseas one can fly into Seattle or Wenatchee where I can meet if the trip takes us through these place so you do not need to rent a car for any of the trip with me, but PO always will be Winthrop, WA since I need to return to this place. You also can contact me on Skype ( search Sandor A Feher) for any real time discussion. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildlightphoto Posted March 16, 2011 Share #7 Posted March 16, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) Looking for an able bodied men who would like to go to Yellowstone for 7-10day on location photography. Will need to share 60% of fuel cost, what would be the only expense beside your own. Should not be an alcoholic nor drug user and smoker, preferably member for this forum with interest of nature/wildlife photography. Would like to depart shortly in March from PO (Point of Origin) Winthrop,WA. to and around Mammoth Hot Spring and return to the PO.. Very enticing! Too bad I'm tied up for the rest of the month. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
juergen Posted March 16, 2011 Share #8 Posted March 16, 2011 Diesel is getting expensive, locally I seen today for $4.70/gallon but I think it is cheaper in Montana. Aren't you lucky! Diesel in Germeny, where I live, is 7.75/Gallon. Juergen Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
juergen Posted March 16, 2011 Share #9 Posted March 16, 2011 Diesel is getting expensive, locally I seen today for $4.70/gallon but I think it is cheaper in Montana. Aren't you lucky! Diesel in Germeny, where I am living, is $ 7.75/gallon. Juergen Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted March 16, 2011 Share #10 Posted March 16, 2011 I bet your car does more than 10 miles to the gallon, though... It's now at £1.40 per litre here (roughly US$1/litre) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
juergen Posted March 16, 2011 Share #11 Posted March 16, 2011 I bet your car does more than 10 miles to the gallon, though... You're right Andy. If it didn't, I wouldn't have to worry about petrol prices because i could afford it. Juergen Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted March 16, 2011 Share #12 Posted March 16, 2011 I can only afford to run a car that does between 50 and 60 miles per imperial gallon. I'd be bankrupt if I drove a petrol car. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
santila Posted March 16, 2011 Author Share #13 Posted March 16, 2011 I keep hearing this argument over and over again that we are lucky compared against the euro fuel prices. Keep some things in your mind, your distances short unless travel to Greece or other destanation, the other factor is consumption of your car. Even so you could just take the train since rail connections are excellent thourgh out Europe. I bet you can not put a camper on your car, if you want to be on location one need a beefed up frame that able to cary the load and the good old physical law is that the heavier the object more calories needed to move a given distance and this translate into higher consumption. So 'till some one come up with an other formula, like small nuclear reactor or something like that, we must use carbon based fuel to move our automobiles, even electric enginees will not do to move automobiles larger the personal vehichles. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted March 16, 2011 Share #14 Posted March 16, 2011 That's very true. It would be interesting to know what the average fuel consumption of a car in the US is, as well as the average number of miles driven per year. I know that some people in the country, drive hundreds of miles to get to a decent sized town - that obviously doesn't happen in Europe. However, many people in Europe, me included, drive insane numbers of miles just to get to and from work every day. To put this into some sort of context, my annual fuel bill is now over £5,000 (US$8,000), paid for out of my taxed income, of course. That would rise to about £7,000 p.a. if I drove a petrol engined car. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gyoung Posted March 16, 2011 Share #15 Posted March 16, 2011 We rented a 'Compact Camper' in Canada last year, it was based on a small Ford truck and did 12 mpg, so its good fuel was cheap! It was the smallest 'RV' on the site everywhere, but still more than twice the size of our VW camper. Gerry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d2mini Posted March 16, 2011 Share #16 Posted March 16, 2011 I only drive about 10-11 thousand miles per year in my car. About the same for my wife's car. And that is considered pretty low for the USA. Most people with full time work probably drive 15k-30k/year multiplied by minimum 2 cars per family. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlindstrom Posted March 17, 2011 Share #17 Posted March 17, 2011 sorry to hijack this thread, but need to comment on the diesel pricing.. In Finland we're currently seeing 1.4€/litre which would translate into 5.3 usd / gallon in the states. So yes, your prices are still dirt cheap. As for the camper, we're using a 7,4 meters long and 4,000kg (that's just over 24 feet long / 8800 lbs) RV. It's consuming around 23-24mpg (us). And it's not some small engined disgrace on the road either.. has a 3 litre turbo diesel and all the usual luxuries, beds for 4, toilet/shower, 25 gallon water tank, aircon & the works.. properly insulated, heating for all year use (we see -31F almost every year and do camp in those conditions as well). Our summer vacation trips go around nordics and finland and tend to clock up anywhere between 1000 - 3000 miles, depending on what's in program There are just so many places to visit and see in the nordics.. not to mention when we start into expanding to mainland europe. So as you see, it's not all wrong to say you still have it good. Of course it would be better if diesel prices were lower or the cars consumed less.. Anyway, hope you find a suitable companion to travel with and have a wonderful trip with loads of nice pictures. And if you can, write something along/after the trip with some pics for the rest of us //Juha Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
santila Posted March 17, 2011 Author Share #18 Posted March 17, 2011 Fuel prices only stop me for the cold, winter months and if you have it (finances) then prices one way or other not playing any role. For the warmer months I will be using my VW Westfalia that I found the perfect "photographers" car, be able to move in tight places where upon with MH you could not do. One needs to choose between economy or comfort, as I stated before, if you have the financial means then could go either way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff S Posted March 17, 2011 Share #19 Posted March 17, 2011 It would be interesting to know what the average fuel consumption of a car in the US is, as well as the average number of miles driven per year. Eight year old data for U.S. driving. Other sorts could yield interesting results...business vs pleasure, location of residence, type of vehicle (car, SUV, etc), age of car, etc. I'm sure insurance companies have more data. FWIW, leasing arrangements often have annual limits of 15,000, although lesser amounts are common as well. Jeff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IkarusJohn Posted March 17, 2011 Share #20 Posted March 17, 2011 Interesting comparisons. Fuel here has gone through the roof recently. 98 RON petrol is NZD 2.3/litre (USD 8.72/US Gallon), and diesel is NZD 1.76/litre (USD 6.67/US Gallon), so I think you really can't complain (we are much like you with public transport, though our distances are shorter). I drive a VW Passat 4WD, V6, and on a long trip, I can get 7.5 l/100 km (that's just under 40 mpg, imperial). My wife have a VW Multivan 4WD, 2.0L turbo diesel (which we can sleep in), and on a long trip, she gets about 8.5 l/100 km (a bit over 33 mpg). But, she has to pay road user taxes, which brings the cost up to about the same as petrol. $4.70/US gallon looks pretty good to me ... Cheers John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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