#saving money on travel

[bitchesgetriches]

The Joys of Getting Around Without a Damn Car

So yeah. Me and cars? We don’t get a long.

And I’m not alone. Haunt the halls of lifestyle blogs and personal finance advice long enough and you’ll run into people who have gone to great lengths to go without driving.

Living a carless lifestyle is entirely possible for a lot of us, and the joys and benefits are many. Getting around without a car saves you a trunkload of cash (see what I did there?), it’s better for your health, and it’s better for the environment. It can even save you time, in certain circumstances.

Below I examine the joys and practicalities of carless modes of transportation. It’s by no means a complete list, so I encourage class participation! Tell me all about your car-free mobility in a comment.

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[rodspurethoughts]

Travel Tips for Budget-Conscious Adventurers: How to Explore the World Without Breaking the Bank

Photo by Oleksandr Pidvalnyi on Pexels.com Traveling can be an amazing experience, but it can also be expensive. For budget-conscious adventurers, there are many ways to save money and still have a great trip. Here are some travel tips for those who want to explore the world without breaking the bank. Plan ahead: Start planning your trip well in advance to take advantage of early bird discounts…

[fosermi]

ok so I want to build up some funds for myself so if you're at all interested in commissioning me that would be sooo helpful!

I'll start with half body sketch with base colors coms for $15 for characters like so:

I'll have 3 slots open for now for both sonic characters and humanoids! I'll also try my best at drawing furies if commissioned to! :D

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[lesquatrechevrons]

in Italian we say “there’s no twice without a third (time)” and let me tell you— [FOGHORN NOISES]

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

money doesn't buy happiness or mental stability but it is true that anxiety about concrete things is a lot easier to solve if you have money because the worst-case scenario is just... not as bad

take travelling: one time i was travelling and it turned out my accommodation booking had got lost so i arrived at the hotel to find it was booked out. an event in town meant there was no affordable accommodation nearby. if i had been alone, i don't know what i would have done, because i definitely couldn't afford to stump up the money that would be needed to find last-minute accommodation in that city. but the person i was with had a company credit card, and found me a hotel room. the larger your budget, the smaller the chances there will be nowhere you can stay

another time my flight was delayed, causing me to miss the last bus from the airport. i didn't have enough money to pay for a taxi the whole way to my destination, and my phone wasn't working well enough to let me call my accommodation and let them know i would be arriving after the normal check-in time, either. in the end my family had to transfer me extra money so i could pay for the taxi, and call the accommodation from their phone to pass on the message. if they hadn't been able to do that, i'd have been stuck in shannon airport forever (or at least until someone took pity on me) -- not great

a missed bus or a lost accommodation booking or a delayed flight or a suitcase going astray is a lot easier to deal with if the worst-case scenario is "I have to pay a bunch of money about this" vs "i am stranded with no way of getting to my destination/sleeping alone on the floor of the train station in an unfamiliar city/wearing the same clothes for a week straight with no access to my meds"

now sometimes there is no amount of money that will get you from one location to another because there simply isn't any transport and there is no amount of money that can buy things which aren't available to buy, which is why rural travel requires substantially more planning. however. it can still usually make it less miserable being stuck wherever you ended up / increase your options in general

(also, wow travel emergencies have got so much easier to deal with since roaming data, google maps, + mobile banking became a thing... so much less likely to find yourself lost and penniless, unless travelling somewhere super remote, in which case you've got bigger problems anyway)

[josecariohca]

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[catominor]

thinking about the time i went to the roman baths in bath and it was genuinely one of the coolest things i have ever seen in my life i loved it sm...

[lovesodeepandwideandwell]

Made the exquisite decision to go do the workout path in the woods on my way to the airport, except doing this woke up my muscles and bodily awareness which in turn reminded me that my hamstrings are so flourishing it's not comfortable to sit with my legs out in front of me. So that's fun.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[robotpussy]

mum found out I quit my job and now she's panicking from her hospital bed.

[leonsdolly]

say sike rn, universal studios jpn is doing another RE event for horror nights... i need to save money i need to save money i need to save money

[drakonovisny]

why is keeping yourself alive so expensive 😭

[pinehutch]

my shoulder angel is telling me to make pesto with leftover radish greens and herbs and my shoulder devil reminds me that you can order egg rolls to your home literally whenever

[cookinguptales]

So my dad and I went on a road trip a few years ago. We hit a lot of national parks, ghost towns, bizarre little tourist traps, the weirdest things we could find in Vegas, etc.

(Also, we accidentally went to an alien-themed brothel but I guess that's another story.)

We did... go to Death Valley... but it was not a great experience. lmao

To preface, it had been windy for a lot of our trip, which affected our stops to varying degrees. By far the two worst situations were in Petrified Forest and Death Valley. We still sort of enjoyed Petrified Forest, even though I literally got blown over a few times and the pictures weren't great. We actually talk about going back there some time to see it better because I do love fossils.

Death Valley tho...

I do like deserts, to be clear. I think deserts can be really, really beautiful. And I think maybe in much, much better circumstances, Death Valley might be beautiful. But it was not beautiful that day, and we are not making plans to go back.

We'd actually planned to stay there a couple nights, but the wind had basically kicked up a dust storm that was so bad that it cut power to the entire park. This is very dangerous in a place like Death Valley, where you can literally die if you get stranded. Like... they call it that for a reason. It was April, so less hot than it would be later, but it's still a desert in the middle of freaking nowhere.

When we finally got to our hotel, we found that it had lost power and probably wouldn't be getting it back for a day or two. That meant very little by way of food options, absolutely no internet, and, probably more importantly, it meant we wouldn't be able to charge our cell phones. The gas station also was not working.

So even though we had quite a bit of gas in the tank, the prospect of potentially running out of gas with no cell service or internet in a place called Death Valley was enough to run us out of town. We saw a little bit of the place before we left, but visibility was so poor that it was difficult to see much.

(And... I have to be honest with you, it was not the most visually interesting desert I've ever seen.)

In the end, we ended up just canceling our hotel stay (they couldn't check us in anyway) and driving to Lone Pine. Which was beautiful.

So uhhhh here are some scenes from Death Valley. Mostly, after a certain point, taken from inside a car. Because we were in a fucking dust storm.

To know just how bad the wind was, here's a video from when we stopped at the hotel/fuel center. Please keep in mind, if you turn the audio on, that I was in a truck.

For this next section, the gas station we stopped at just outside of the park, please just know that I double-checked the time stamps and this was early evening but it was not dark yet. You can kind of see how the sky was blue from some angles, but the sun was still being blotted out by the storm. The closest I've experienced to that otherwise is the odd sort of half-light you experience during an eclipse.

And then we got to Lone Pine and it looked like fucking this when we woke up. lmao. One of the most beautiful places I've ever been. What the fuck.

[salvadorbonaparte]

I think you don't see as much travel content on tumblr because we're all too poor for travel. There's also no influencers here to annoy us though so that's a win.

[kingedmundsroyalmurder]

Lesser known ADHD tax: when you need a good or service and just go with the first reputable provider, because you don't have the executive function to price match or do product quality research and you need this thing.