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The Thanksgiving spirit has grabbed me in spite of myself. I have been thinking about all of the things that I am thankful for this year. Most of them are related to my health, my family and my working life. However, there are some things that I can think of that are specifically related to [...]
I just wasted a few hours of my day doing some daydreaming about travel plans that I’m not going to really make. Wasted is the wrong word. The truth is that I enjoyed every single minute of planning a vacation that I’m not actually going to go on. This is my way of fantasizing I [...]
Effect of Recession on Budget Travel
I just watched a really interesting YouTube news clip about the effect that the recession has had on the budget travel industry. Hopefully it’s embedded in this post above so that you can watch it too. I have to confess that I’m still getting used to the logistics of this [...]
I’m still working on planning our Thanksgiving trip this year. I don’t like planning trips at the last minute. I am one of those people who likes to plan everything in advance. However, I do know that there are pros and cons to planning trips in advance as far as the finances go.
Benefits of Planning [...]
I started thinking about taking a trip to San Diego and now I can’t stop thinking about it. San Diego is just such a great destination. It’s good for couples, solo trips and family travel. It’s particularly great because there are a lot of free and cheap things to do in San Diego.
I’m not actually [...]
Ugh. I just found out that my husband wants to go away for Thanksgiving this year. I’m not too happy about the idea to be honest. I prefer to do a quiet dinner with just us and the kids here at home. We do a lot of stuff with the extended family for the Christmas [...]
Okay so immediately after I wrote my first blog post I sent it over to my friend to review. If you read that post then you know that the way that this budget travel blog first got inspired was because I had helped a friend of mine find a great cheap hotel in downtown Chicago [...]
Well here I am trying to figure out what to write for my first post on this new blog. I have so many different thoughts about saving money on travel that I want to dive right in and start to share them on this blog. But I realize that you don’t even know anything about [...]