Our Budget Escape tips are here to help you, when money is tight. We firmly believe that money should never prevent you from living your life to the fullest. Here are the things that this category contains:
Free Places to Go-Amazing places to get away for a no cost escapade, and have a big adventure with a little wallet, especially for a day or a weekend.
Free Things to Do- Awesome activities that can done on no cost.
Budgetizing your Trip– Cost cutting tips and resources for other travel adventures, as well as great bargains we find along the way.
Budget Management- Saving money all the time, so you have more for when you want to get away.
Budget Travel Links- Links to some of our favorite other bloggers, who happen to be real experts on low cost travel, and can cite tip after tip, source after source.
This post was most recently updated on September 19th, 2017. What’s a Geocache?? A geocache, is what a geocacher finds, when he plays geocaching. Â What?? Â Okay, okay. Â Geocaching is a game and that can be dream come true for young families struggling to make ends meet, but who still need adventure. Geocaching is fun, exciting, intriguing, and it can be […]
This post was most recently updated on July 27th, 2018. Most of us have sat in front of the TV or at the movie theater watching a great adventure, when the lead actors run off into the woods on a wild chase that ends up being several days of hiking around. Â Miraculously, they are in the right clothes, and the […]
This post was most recently updated on September 30th, 2018. Cathedral Caverns are one of those wonders of nature that is hard to describe. Pictures don’t do it justice. The entrance is huge, 126 feet wide and 25 feet high. One of the first things you will see is a sharks tooth embedded in the ceiling. Proof that Alabama was […]
This post was most recently updated on October 9th, 2018. Being born and raised in The Land of Lincoln, you would think I would have visited New Salem Village many times. Â I have been fortunate to take school field trips to the location where Abraham Lincoln, the nation’s 16th president, is buried. As an adult, I have visited Gettysburg National […]
This post was most recently updated on October 26th, 2017. By Barbara Lindsoe Falling Waters State Park is located 3 miles south of Chipley, Florida. Â It is easily accessible from I-10. Â Twenty-four full facility camp sights, equipped with electricity, fresh water, picnic tables and grills and a clothesline, are available for campers. Â The restrooms and showers have recently been updated. […]
This post was most recently updated on August 17th, 2018. Whenever we are craving some adventure, we hop into the car and head to Matthiessen State Park. Sometimes the whole family goes, and sometimes we go when Mom is at work, and we guys are feeling the need to get out of the house, and do some exploring.  Charlie, our […]
This post was most recently updated on October 9th, 2018. The National Parks of the United States are well known around the globe, but what is not as commonly known is that the country also boasts an amazing network of US State Parks. An astonishing number of state parks are filled with small natural wonders, are well maintained, and visiting […]
This post was most recently updated on July 10th, 2017. The Olde English Faire is an annual Renaissance Fair held in central Illinois. I attended the Faire with Brittany, Cash and Jaxon, who you can read about on our Traveling Companions page. If you are not familiar with a Renaissance Fair, it is an event celebrating the post medieval times, […]
This post was most recently updated on October 13th, 2018. Get Away from it All, at Turkey Run State Park! Getting away is not always about the lavish cross seas venture. Sometimes a day trip, or a weekend will do your soul just right. Sometimes something located in your very own backyard, such as state parks, are perfect. Within about an […]
