http://frugalhacks.com/2008/01/29/take-a-vacation-why-not/ Good stewardship in action. How do you do it? Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:27:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://frugalhacks.com/2008/01/29/take-a-vacation-why-not/comment-page-1/#comment-1502 Ann at mommysecrets Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:13:58 +0000 http://frugalhacks.com/?p=257#comment-1502 Great ideas Amy! Tennessee - the beautiful parks and lakes! Smoky Mountains, Fall Creek Falls, Centerhill Lake, Radnor Lake, Percy Warner Park, Percy Priest Lake, Norris Lake, Land Between the Lakes... Come to hike, camp, fish, explore, boat, canoe, waterski, and enjoy the great outdoors in the four beautiful seasons. :) Great ideas Amy! Tennessee – the beautiful parks and lakes! Smoky Mountains, Fall Creek Falls, Centerhill Lake, Radnor Lake, Percy Warner Park, Percy Priest Lake, Norris Lake, Land Between the Lakes… Come to hike, camp, fish, explore, boat, canoe, waterski, and enjoy the great outdoors in the four beautiful seasons.

]]> http://frugalhacks.com/2008/01/29/take-a-vacation-why-not/comment-page-1/#comment-1499 joanna Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:04:27 +0000 http://frugalhacks.com/?p=257#comment-1499 One of our favorite things to do is take "day trips" around Indiana as our vacations. We hit the <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/JoshAndJoanna/Statefair07" rel="nofollow">State Fair</a> every year, have toured Columbus, <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/JoshAndJoanna/FallColors07" rel="nofollow">Brown County</a>, <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/JoshAndJoanna/ChurchesCourthousesBridges" rel="nofollow">Parke County</a>, Crawfordsville, the <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/JoshAndJoanna/GerigCamping07" rel="nofollow">Indiana Dunes</a>, and <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/JoshAndJoanna/MemorialDay07" rel="nofollow">Madison</a>, among others. We always stop by the visitors center in the city, where we get free advice on what to see in town from someone passionate about the area, and, typically, a free driving- or walking-tour map with sites of interest marked on it. These "scavenger hunt" trips are awesome- and cheap! We typically only spend money on meals, to eat at a unique local restaurant. For overnight trips, we'll go camping in a state park, typically. Once, we used the Indiana travel site you linked to and got a buy-one-night-get-one-free stay in a <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/JoshAndJoanna/ChristmasTrips/photo#5016926716891232674" rel="nofollow">Bloomington bed and breakfast</a> for our six-month wedding anniversary. All of this works for us because there's just two of us, we like road trips, and have cars that get good gas mileage- which makes for inexpensive getaways. One of our favorite things to do is take “day trips” around Indiana as our vacations. We hit the State Fair every year, have toured Columbus, Brown County, Parke County, Crawfordsville, the Indiana Dunes, and Madison, among others. We always stop by the visitors center in the city, where we get free advice on what to see in town from someone passionate about the area, and, typically, a free driving- or walking-tour map with sites of interest marked on it. These “scavenger hunt” trips are awesome- and cheap! We typically only spend money on meals, to eat at a unique local restaurant. For overnight trips, we’ll go camping in a state park, typically. Once, we used the Indiana travel site you linked to and got a buy-one-night-get-one-free stay in a Bloomington bed and breakfast for our six-month wedding anniversary. All of this works for us because there’s just two of us, we like road trips, and have cars that get good gas mileage- which makes for inexpensive getaways.

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