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8 Amazing Budget-friendly Travel Destinations For Every Travel Style
Traveling on a teacher’s budget (with student loans, a car note, and a mortgage to pay) can be tough, but I still manage to take a trip just about every month. Budget-friendly travel destinations are my secret to traveling so often. While I will save up and splurge on a pricier trip every once and a while, most of my travel is very budget friendly. I know from my crazy, care-free hostel dorm days almost any trip can be done on a budget, but at this point in my life, I’m older and a little pickier about where I lay my head. While I still love the social atmosphere of hostels, I…
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Weekend Getaway Guide: Colonia Roma, Mexico City
This spring, the travel bug bit me… bad. As a teacher, spring time at work can get a little hectic. State testing, kids feeling that spring fever… I was ready to make an escape! Looking over the calendar, Joey and I realized we both shared some time off in the form of a four-day weekend spanning from Good Friday to the Monday after Easter. In that moment I thought… Hey! What about Mexico City? Love all the street art! Two years ago, we got a taste for this amazing city during an overnight layover en route to Nicaragua. We had been wanting to visit for a longer stay and explore the…
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Weekend Adventure: Eating our way through Mexico City
After borrowing his time off from this year to take our winter break trip to Panama, my husband Joey didn’t have much time off to travel with me this year. But, we definitely made it work. As a teacher, I get a nice long weekend about every month or so. Joey works in the private sector so…not so much. However, Easter weekend provides both of us with a four day weekend at the same time. How could we pass up that opportunity to make our escape together? Our destination: Mexico City. Why Mexico City, you ask? The idea for a Mexico City trip began three years ago with our…
