How to Afford --TRAVEL-- $$$
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Making Adventure a Priority — The Unconventional “How To”: Travel on a Tiny Budget
Been in a slump? The perfect thing to give you some lustrous perspective—GET OUT of here, mojo—take a trip. Make yourself a priority; make adventure a priority. Go see, do, hear, taste something out of the ordinary. But how? Vacations are pricey. Somewhere along our journeys we’ve conceived this notion that traveling is this luxurious hobby fit only for the wealthy. “It’s not in the budget”. “We don’t have the money”. It’s an unfair stigma. Let’s step away from the real world for a moment. Think Huck Finn . . . travel could be seen as a means of adventure, a way of finding something, finding something when you’re not even…
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Being a Cheapskate Has Its Downfalls
The honest truth is: we’re cheapskates. It usually works out well when we’re traveling but every once in a while it catches up with us. On the tail end of a long road trip through the north-east my husband and I decided to stop at Niagara Falls. After eating a mountain of “mild” (hot) wings in Buffalo at Duff’s Wings (they’re just called wings in Buffalo, not buffalo wings) we booked a non-smoking room with a king sized bed and a jetted tub across the border because we’d heard the views were better from that side. The room was a mid-range 100 bucks a night and the pictures of the…

