Honeymoon on a budget
When we got married in
December, I didn't even consider a honeymoon. But Mark is a
serious proponent of treating yourself well, even on a homestead
budget. Wondering how a honeymoon and a budget go together?
Read on.
Our first thought was to book
passage on a freighter. For about $100 per person per day,
you can live in luxurious accommodations aboard a container ship,
seeing the world in style. Since freighters tend to have only a
handful of passengers and no fancy activities, this is truly the way to
travel for self-sufficient introverts. Someday, we want to hop a
freighter and drift down to Peru to explore Macchu Pichu, but for now
the lengthy duration of freighter trips is out of our price (and time)
range.
Instead, we settled on something I never even considered --- a
Caribbean cruise. Due to the swine flu scare in Mexico and our
current recession, you can book a 5 day cruise for $250 (less if you
don't mind a windowless cabin.) Since that price tag includes
food and accommodations, it's a pretty awesome deal --- it'd be hard to
beat that staying in the motel down the road and eating at
McDonalds. So we bought our tickets for the fall and started to
dream of Mayan ruins!
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Shannon --- you should go for it! It's hard to go far wrong with a vacation that cheap.
About planes --- Mark's saving up for a powered parachute. He dreams of flying just like he dreams of freighter travel.