As promised, we added up the numbers for our pie TV shoot. Here’s the final tally.
RV Road Trip
Number of miles driven in the RV (RT Portland-Los Angeles, and including my Christmas trip to Arizona): 4,521
Number of miles I drove RV prior to this trip: 0
Number of parking or speeding tickets: 0 (yay!)
Number of dings on the RV roof from parallel parking too close to trees: 4
Number of hours spent caulking the leaky roof: 5
Number of times Janice fought to keep Jack off her lap before giving up: 9
Number of times people honked because of our pie sign in the window: 67
Number of Café Lattes served to Janice over 12 mornings: 12
Number of times we sang “Pants on the Ground”: 26
Number of times we imitated Pigmy Will’s voice: too many!
Number of In ‘N Out burgers eaten: 3 each
Pie Interviews and Consumption
Number of pie bakers interviewed: 12
Age of oldest person interviewed: 92
Age of youngest person interviewed: 7
Number of people we taught to bake pies: 13 (14 if you include Janice)
Number of pounds of apples purchased: 160
Number of pies baked: 58
Number of pie slices given away on National Pie Day: 384
Number of pieces of pie eaten in 12 days: 21 each!
Number of pie varieties eaten: 12
Number of bites of coconut cream pie Janice ate: 1
Number of pounds gained: 0 (Ha!)
Marcus
Number of months since Marcus died: 6 (you didn’t think I forgot about him, did you?!)
Number of times we thanked him for doing “advance security” for us: 24
Number of times I cried on camera about him: 3
Number of hours out of 8 I wished he could have been with us giving out pie slices on National Pie Day: 8
Follow up
Number of post-shoot (hand-written, not email) thank you cards I’ve sent so far: 0 (gotta go so I can get those written!)
Number of hours I’ve spent (so far) working out content for the next 12 episodes: 6