Travel Tips For Home Schoolers
Since I wrote about those awesome home school cruises I thought I would also pass on this article I read. It’s six ways to save money on your travel expenses this summer. The ideas work even if you aren’t planning on a typical summer vacation, and in fact the first tip is perfect for those who aren’t.
Traveling off the peak season is a great way to lower costs. Everyone is trying to encourage more people to travel so they lower costs to sweeten the deal. Which works in favor of most home educators as they are not trapped by the typical school schedule. When everyone else is heading back home and the rates are dropping you can take a much needed vacation. Cheaper and crowd free!
Any other adventure seeking home educators with tips for making travel easier and cheaper? Or at least some words of encouragement from those of us already getting the summer time wander lust? After a lifetime of traveling only during certain months it is hard not to be ready to want to do everything now. Vacation in the fall? that’s crazy talk!
May 20th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
We usually take 2 long car-trips with our kids every summer. (This year will be the first we’re flying for one, but driving on the other.)
Our biggest tricks?
1. Go to Dollar General and stock up on paper, pens, toys and games, then mete them out every 50 miles or so to keep the kids entertained. The fewer times you have to stop to let them out to do something fun, the better your mileage.
2. Stock up on the fast food coupons that most people get in their Wednesday mail. Clip them, then locate the relevant restaurants every 100 miles or so on your route. Those coupons often offer really great savings that can beat the heck out of stopping at, say, Denny’s. (Which, as everyone knows, is best visited at 3 a.m.)
3. I sometimes use Google’s SMS service to look up pizza joints in towns we’re nearing, especially Little Caeasars since they have a $5 pizza deal. One pizza can feed the whole family for a mere fiver.
4. Water bottles. Take ‘em. Refill them at every stop. Skip the pop.