We only have one month left in our trip. 334 days into the year; 31 days left to go…

Below you will find our total stats for the months of

January + February + March + April + May + June + July + August + September + October + November:



[Shotgunning Deep Ellum Blonde at the Grand Canyon – AZ]



[Driving through a tree – North CA]

Unique brews responsibly tasted: 6,204 (+879 from last month)

Breweries visited: 687 total: 339 official & 348 bonus (+94)

Most breweries visited in 1 day: 9 (4 in Bellingham, WA + 5 in BC, Canada)

Most breweries visited in 1 month: 94 (November)

States visited: 47 & DC & 3 Canadian provinces (+3)

* Check out all of our Border Photos!

Starting mileage: 75,416

Ending mileage: 110,861

Total miles driven: 35,445 (+5,260)

Highest price paid for gas: $4.83 (CAN)

Lowest price paid for gas: $2.57 (TX)

Longest drive: Dallas, TX to Las Cruces, NM (about 10 hours)

Nights stayed in a hotel: 24 (+2)

Nights slept in Van: 48 (+6)

Nights camped: 22 (+2)

* All other nights stayed on someone’s couch/ bed/ floor

* Note: We paid for less than half of the hotel rooms



[Zion- UT]



[Zion – UT]

Times asked if brothers/ twins: 123 (+5)

Number of beers named after us: 1 – Brews Travelers IPA at The Red Baron in MI (+0)

Times either of us got a haircut: Brandon – 3; Michael – 4 (+1)

Times either of us shaved: Brandon – 2; Michael – 0 (+0)

Number of times we have gone back home to Dallas, TX: 2 (+0)

Most consecutive days without a shower: 5 (from Seattle, WA to Jackson, WY) (+0)

Beer Festivals Attended: 6 [Great Taste of the Midwest; Oak Park Micro Brew Review; Fremont Oktoberfest; Fresh Hop Fest at 10 Barrel; Great American Beer Festival; Untapped Festival – Dallas] (+1)



[Pacific Ocean – CA]



[Pacific Ocean – CA]



[Pacific Ocean – CA]

Times Brandon discovered he got lyme disease this year: 1 (+1)

Close encounters with deer in the road: 10 (+5)

CD’s acquired: 7 (+0)

DVD’s acquired: 1 – The Michigan Beer Film (+0)

Number of beers lost to explosion or gravity: 5 (+1)

Rounds of disc golf played: 1 (+0)

Items left behind: 13 (3 shampoo + 3 soap +1 loofah left in bathrooms, 1 towel, 1 pair of socks flew out the window, 1 hat, 1 shirt, 1 pair of boxers, 1 phone charger) (+1)

Times there was a snow/ ice: 11 (Atlanta, GA; Greensboro, NC; DC; Milton, DE; Granby, CT; Between Helena & Missoula, MT; Between Jackson Hole, WY & Victor, ID; twice on the drive from Jackson, WY to Denver, CO; Boise, ID to Bend, OR; Hood River, OR) (+2)



[Drive from Boise, ID to Bend, OR]



[Bend, OR]

Money stolen by broken parking meters: 8 quarters, 1 nickel ($2.05) (+0)

Times pulled over then let go: 1 (+0)

Parking tickets acquired: 1 – Providence, RI because there is apparently no overnight parking anywhere in that city (+0)

Unfortunate mishaps with Homer the minivan: 4 (Mirror clipped in Lancaster, PA; driver-side spray painted in Pittsburgh, PA; Nail in tire in Dallas, TX; Flat tire in the middle of nowhere, SD) (+0)



[The Big Tree in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park – North CA]



[Sweet looking bridge in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park – North CA]

Hits on website: 134,650 (+5,396)

Facebook Likes: 2,237 (+49)

Twitter followers: 1,875 (+104)

Instagram followers: 1,733 (+420)

Untapped friends: 367 (+10)

And here are all of the friends we hung out with during the month of November!



[Michael (our friend from Dallas) on the left – AZ]



[Michael, Julia (family friend of Brandon’s), Brandon – AZ]



[Brandon, Jason, Michael – AZ]



[Brandon, Heather, Gabe, Kami, Kyle, Michael – OR]



[Michael, Kyle (Michael’s old friend/ co-worker, roommate), Brandon – OR]



[Brandon, Warren, Jeanna, Ken, Michael – OR]



[Brandon, Justin (Michael’s college roommate), Michael – OR]



[Michael, Erin & Derek (other beer travelers!), Brandon – OR]



[Brandon, Deanna, David, Michael – OR]