Preparations Before Traveling Abroad, a Checklist
I’m on my way to the airport now, and tomorrow early morning I’m on my way to Crete, Greece. My amazing friend Vera, who is visiting her mom there from New Zealand, paid for me to fly there and get this much needed vacation, not to mention hosting me for an entire week. It has […]
All About Our Recent Family Trip
I posted before about our planned family trip and now that we’re home, recovered, and back to normal life (or at least as normal as can be when one kid has a broken finger and stitches), I wanted to share how wonderful our trip was. When planning our family trip, my first goal was looking for a […]
Our Upcoming Family Trip
A picture of the apartment where we’ll be staying Right now I was supposed to be getting ready and packing my bags for a trip to the airport. A few months ago I booked tickets for a vacation for myself. I was to fly in to Frankfurt Hahn Airport in Germany tomorrow, take a bus […]
Visiting London on a Shoestring Budget
No, I’m not heading to London. (Yet, though this post really makes me want to go.) However, my best friend, Michelle, recently was in London, and she amazed me not only by how many things she saw in her short amount of time there, but also little she spent doing so. As she knows how […]
How We Went on a Super Frugal Beach Camping Trip with No Car
I wrote about our super frugal beach camping trip already, but now that we’re back home, in civilization, I wanted to share about our last day camping, and what we did, lessons we learned, etc. First of all, as our second time camping as a family, and as our first time camping at the beach, […]
Our Super Frugal Beach Camping Trip, Day 2
So we’re on day two of our first ever family beach camping trip, and second family camping trip ever. Here’s how it’s going so far. Yesterday after my husband and another family member arrived at the camp site, we set up our tents and started a barbecue. It didn’t catch on easily at all, despite […]
Our Frugal Short Trip to Craiova, Romania
Last week my oldest son and I went on a short weekend getaway to Craiova, Romania. It was the first time my son ever left the country, and he was so excited about being able to go on the plane, and to see what a new country is like. His excitement was palpable as we […]
Helpful and Money Saving Travel Hacks
In the past I would have said that I’m not a frequent traveler, but now that I think about it, ever since I’ve been married my husband and I have traveled at least once a year on vacation with our within our country, and then five years ago I traveled to the US once for […]
Preparing For My Next Frugal Trip Abroad To Craiova, Romania
People might have wondered in the past why I decided to go abroad twice in the last year, and yes, part of it was because I discovered that I could, once I discovered a way to get really cheap airfare, so that I could even afford to travel abroad. But now that I came clean about […]
My Super Frugal Trip to Brussels, Belgium
It has been a good long while since December, and people keep on asking me when I’ll post my next post about what else I did when I went on a super frugal trip to Belgium in December. I am really bad about follow up with these things, because while I’m on the trip, the […]
