We woke up early on Monday the 25th both deciding to skip breakfast nursing anxious stomachs. Leaving home for an extended amount of time causes both elation and anxiousness. There’s always that little bit of worry in the back of your neck when you leave your own home to try out someone else’s for a…
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Things Don’t Always Turn Out As Planned #1 Roadtripper Tip
If things had turned out the way I had planned in just a couple of days hubby and I would be headed out on our trip of a lifetime. A month-long trek to Alaska and all points in between. We planned and we planned. We mapped and mapped and it was all for naught. The…
How To Plan A Massive Roadtrip & Stay On A Budget Pt. 3
You need to check out PART ONE & PART TWO for all of this to make sense. Planning a road trip on a budget isn’t easy but it can be done. This will be my 4th cross country trip, but this one will be by far the longest and furthest away. We’re going approximately 10,275…
How To Plan A Massive Road Trip On A Budget Pt. 2
When planning a major road trip you need to have two pieces of information: An idea of where you want to go. Approximate time you have available for the total trip. This trip that we’re taking in May will be our longest road trip (6 weeks) ever attempted, but we have taken quite a few…
How To Plan A Massive Road Trip On A Budget Pt. 1
Almost every vacation I’ve ever been on has been a road trip. My husband and I love to pack up the car and take off, often without a destination in mind. We’ve seen a lot of cool things just running into them along the way. But a real road trip, one that covers many days…