Share Your Favorite Inexpensive Vacation

Creekland
Tue, 08 Mar 2022 02:57:04 +0000

Htas:

I think some of our most memorable inexpensive vacations involved camping, being outside or just really going off the beaten path.

One of my favorite memories was camping at Dry Tortugas NP in FL (off the keys - need to take a ferry to get there). My youngest son was either 9 or 11 (I forgot the year of that trip). He and I woke up early one day and walked on the moat around the fort, then we stayed there watching the stars get erased from the sky together. It was awesome.

Equally as awesome was later on in their college days when he and his brother did a Mother’s Day video for me. One of their questions was “favorite memories with mom.” That experience topped his list too. Until then I had no idea it was a shared favorite memory.

We’ve been a lot of places in the US and world, but there’s something about nature and being “alone together” sharing an experience. Camping there is only a few bucks per night, though one has to bring everything in with you because there’s no water or concessions, etc. Nonetheless, things like that are among our favorite things, way beating Disney and similar places - even though we enjoyed the other places too. There’s not much in travel we don’t like. They’re just on a different scale.