Below you will find our total stats for the months of
January + February + March + April + May + June + July + August:

[Border Photos!]

[A banana car that drove by – Michigan]

We are now 2/3 of the way through our trip! 243 days into the year and have 122 days left to go…

Unique brews responsibly tasted: 3,879 (+652 from last month)
Breweries visited: 438 total: 249 official & 189 bonus (+72)
States visited: 35 & DC & 2 Canadian provinces (+2)
* Check out all of our Border Photos!

[Texas Rangers won 16-0! – Chicago, Illinois]

Starting mileage: 75,416
Ending mileage: 97,383
Total miles driven: 21,967 (+2,459)
Highest price paid for gas: $4.83 (CAN)
Lowest price paid for gas: $3.19 (MN)

Nights stayed in a hotel: 19 (+6)
Note: We have only paid for about half of the hotel nights
Nights slept in Van: 34 (+5)
Nights camped: 18 (+1)
* All other nights stayed on someone’s couch/ bed/ floor

[Incredible $10 Bloody Mary from Sobelmans Pub & Grill – Milwaukee, Wisconsin]

Number of beers named after us: 1 – Brews Travelers IPA at The Red Baron in MI (+0)
Times either of us have shaved or got a haircut: 2 haircuts each (+0); no shave
CD’s acquired: 7 (+1)
DVD’s acquired: 1 – The Michigan Beer Film (+1)
Times asked if brothers/ twins: 93 (+14)
Number of beers lost to explosion: 4 (+0)
Rounds of disc golf played: 1 (+0)
Number of times we have gone back home to Dallas, TX: 1 (+0)
Items left behind: 12 (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) (+5)
Times there was a snow/ ice storm: 5 (Atlanta, GA; Greensboro, NC; DC; Milton, DE; Granby, CT) (+0)

[Oak Park Micro Brew and Food Review – near Chicago, Ilinois]

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: 3 (Mirror clipped in Lancaster, PA; driver-side spray painted in Pittsburgh, PA; Nail in tire in Dallas, TX) (+0)

[Enger Tower – Duluth, Minnesota]

[View from Enger Tower – Duluth, Minnesota]

Hits on website: 108,650 (+7,796)
Facebook Likes: 2,068 (+124)
Twitter followers: 1,630 (+116)
Instagram followers: 931 (+110)
Untapped friends: 324 (+29)

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

[Keith & Anne at Iechyd Da Brewing – IN]

[Hunter & Johnny at Three Floyds – IN]

[Dana at US Cellular Field. Third time we’ve seen her on the trip; DE, PA, and now IL!]

[Tabitha at her apartment – IL]

[Tom & Amanda at their apartment – WI]

[Ben & Graham at their apartment – WI]

[Jeffrey, our 2,000th Facebook like at Ale Asylum – Madison, WI]

[Jay at One Barrel Brewing – WI]

[Brandon’s Aunt Renee, Uncle Greg, and Cousin Scott – IL]

[Serge at Atlas Brewing – IL]

[Matt & his girlfriend at Local Option- IL]

[Tabitha, Brandon, Maggie, Eppa, Michael, An; good friends of ours – IL]

[Matt! Whaaat!? – WI]

[Adam! Whaaat!? – WI]

[Jesse at his house – MN]

[Peter & Ashley at their apartment – MN]

[Tony! Whaaat!? – MN]

[Nicholas from Butcher Salt food truck on his birthday at Surly Brewing – MN]

[Steph & Jake at Dubh Linn – MN]

[Us on the left, then Joe, Anthony, Wes, & Matt at their house – MN]