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Trip Souvenirs: light on your wallet and on your pack
Memories, mementos, and knick knacks…if you’re like me, you might enjoy delighting family and friends with trinkets from your adventures. Shopping can easily get expensive and heavy, so here is a list of things you can bring back without breaking the bank or your back. Photographs It’s probably a given, but photographs are my favorite way to remember my trip and share the travel adventures with others. I post adventures on social media so family can follow along in real time and I can easily go back and revisit. I also enjoying working on photos when I return home to create one of a kind wall art! Why hang a generic…
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Pack Light
Packing light saves me time, money, and provides a unique freedom to roam as I please. Time spent… checking baggage: 0 waiting for bags at carousel: 0 making a lost luggage claim: 0 lugging bags around airport or paying for airport carts: 0 One of the BEST feelings is stepping off the plane and seamlessly b-lining to the train station without having to worry about lugging weight. I never hear myself mumble that I have to “drop off this luggage” and consequently get stuck at the hotel before I see and experience new things. I go immediately to lunch… or to the lake! I think of it as a spring…
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Europe: 2 Travelers, 10 days, $2400
My travel partner and I took a trip to Europe for cheap. Traveling cheap is not for the faint of heart, but if your heart is full of nothing but true wanderlust and you don’t mind packing light, read on! Here is how we did it. First decision we had to make: when to travel? Stuff we knew– We wanted to take as little paid time off (PTO) as possible We wanted to see as few crowds as possible (off season) We didn’t care about the weather We landed on Thanksgiving. The Thanksgiving holiday gave us a few extra days off plus added weekends. Total, we only took 5 days…
