Comments on: Traveling To Family Events: Ten Tips For Saving Money http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/05/24/traveling-to-family-events-ten-tips-for-saving-money/ Financial talk for the rest of us Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:14:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Rob in Madrid http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/05/24/traveling-to-family-events-ten-tips-for-saving-money/#comment-28846 Rob in Madrid Fri, 25 May 2007 16:41:01 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/05/24/traveling-to-family-events-ten-tips-for-saving-money/#comment-28846 Here’s another cheap alternative to help the time go buy (assuming you don’t have kids) Books on CD, they are a great way to make the hours go by. Alternatively if you can’t get books on tape (like you don’t live in an English speaking country) Itunes podcasts. You can download 100s of hours of talk radio all free. 2 negatives one you have to buy CDs (very cheap these days) secondly podcasts range from 5 mins to an hour so it can take a long time to download enough to cover the time.

Suggestion Rick Steves travel podcasts are an hour long and very very entertaining.

WNYC has loads of longer podcasts as well.

Like Trent mentioned taking along water snacks etc not only saves money but calories. Apples and bananas travel very well. Yogurt does ok but don’t wait to long to eat it.

If you do alot of long distance driving consider getting a car with cruise, in the right conditions it can make driving wonderfull

]]> By: SwingCheese http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/05/24/traveling-to-family-events-ten-tips-for-saving-money/#comment-28586 SwingCheese Thu, 24 May 2007 22:05:35 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/05/24/traveling-to-family-events-ten-tips-for-saving-money/#comment-28586 My husband and I often pack meals/drinks/snacks when going on road trips. I also like to bring homemade bread (or some other homemade gift) as a thank you for the people with whom we’re staying. I like the games in the trunk idea, too.

If you’re in NW Iowa at all (somewhere between Spencer and Clear Lake), you should check out the Grotto (if you haven’t already). Not *quite* as sweet as the Spam Museum, but something worth seeing between hog farms :)

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