Hint:
I drove there from Ohio.
It was windy.
I spent a wee bit of money. (Details to follow…)
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From the category archives:
Travel and Vacay
…and it ain’t pretty. Our van needed a new starter. The total cost of the repair?
$1041.55! Ooch.
Cost breakdown:
Labor: $249.50
Parts: $546.72
Towing: $157.00
Repair Order: $17.47
Sales Tax: $70.86
It was sooo good to get our van back and get back on the road. I think our greatest fear was that the problem would end up being something [...]
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I can no longer pretend I am on vacation, even though we aren’t home yet. We traveled to my hometown in Kansas for my 20-year high school reunion! But we have been stuck here with car trouble, waiting for a part for our high-maintenance (never again) VW Eurovan.
Breakdown of the trip so far:
Miles from home [...]
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You say a lot of prayers and cross yourself even though you’re not Catholic. Then you pray some more and plaster a smile on your face and rattle off everything you think he needs to know again even though you know he’s not listening anymore and finally you say it’ll be okay just relax you [...]
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My sister Carmen and her 13yo son Ben flew in from Kansas and visited us for a few days. Quote from Carmen,
“I don’t want to end up on your budget blog as to how expensive it is to have your sister visit!”
Ah, come on! Having family is the perfect excuse to go out and have [...]
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My 13yo son had the opportunity to go to the University of Notre Dame this week with a good friend and his family. His friend’s mom is an alum, and every summer they road trip back to her alma mater and stay in the dorms for a few days and cruise around the sites.Isn’t it [...]
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Not even three weeks have passed since I impulsively started this blog, and I’m already feeling discouraged. The tally is in from our trip and it’s not pretty.
Now, I know that we would have been spending money even if we hadn’t been traveling. And this figure does include everything. Is it terrible to admit that [...]
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We’ve been in San Antonio for the past week visiting with my dear MIL as well as with some dear friends we knew from our time we lived in Italy who had moved to San Antonio the same time we moved to Ohio. (Follow that?)
We haven’t actually been staying with any of these friends or [...]
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Miles driven: 1234
Cost of fuel: $104.85
Days driving: two
Cost of lodging: $120
Cost of food: $48.90
A child, getting to know his grandmother…Priceless.
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Six o’clock PM, that is. I don’t think I’ve mentioned that we’re not exactly morning people.
Three hundred twenty-five miles down…Just 929 to go.
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