Summer Travel Plans
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I don’t know about you guys, but we’re headed out of town for a glorious week of relaxation. In fact, by the time you read this, we’ll have nearly reached our destination.
As we do nearly every summer, we’re traveling by car, and we’ll wind up covering close to 3,000 miles by the time we get back home. With that as a backdrop, I thought it would be fun to run another poll.
Will you be traveling this summer? If so, will you be driving? How far will you be going? Please weigh in below, and please leave a comment to add some context.
And now, for your reading pleasure, here are some articles that are stuffed with tips on how to save money on vacation travel:
- Extreme Travel: How to Go Light and Low Budget
- Traveling Cross Country Dirt Cheap
- Travel on a Budget
- Saving Money on a Roadtrip With Kids
And one more that suggests taking a “staycation” instead of going on vacation.
Happy travels!
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Published on June 25th, 2010 - 7 Comments
Filed under: Polls, Travel
About the author: Nickel is the founder and editor-in-chief of this site. He's a thirty-something family man who has been writing about personal finance since 2005, and guess what? He's on Twitter!
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June 25th, 2010 at 12:16 pm
We’re driving to a Georgia beach for our summer vacation. It’s about 800 miles round trip and is one of the closest beaches. That’s our rationale. We were aching for a beach. A lake wasn’t going to cut it this year.
June 25th, 2010 at 12:42 pm
we’ll actually take several long weekend trips that are 300 miles, or so(one way.) A week or two at a time has just NEVER happened for us.
June 25th, 2010 at 2:08 pm
I think about the farthest I’m going to get this summer is about 150-200 miles from home for a weekend trip. I might try to go to a motorcycle track day with some friends in August.
June 25th, 2010 at 4:53 pm
~2,000 miles. ALB->BQN. Ended up being a bit of a surprise. However, luckily, we’re only on the hook for airfare!
June 26th, 2010 at 8:45 am
I have a couple of short trips planned but am flying. I really dislike car trips more than 150 miles each way.
June 26th, 2010 at 9:15 am
We will take a couple of long weekends to Charlotte for weddings.
About 500 miles one way from here. The drive is only about 9 hours and it goes by quickly. 
June 27th, 2010 at 11:43 am
Will by flying to location and renting a car. It would take just too much time to drive, flying is the easiest way and with a free flight on Southwest works out the best.