Summer starts to feel a lot less summery as soon as you find out your all friends are jetting off to Ibiza while you're stuck in your one-horse town. But wait! Regardless of how few horses your town has, you can cobble together your own vacation for between 20 and no dollars. Granted, some of these suggestions range from "boring" to "pointless,” but still! Vacations!
Camping
If you live near a forest, or really near anyplace that contains both trees and bugs, an authentic camping vacation is your ticket to sweaty, uncomfortable adventure! You'll sleep under the stars and experience all the majesty of nature, including the majestic raccoons that steal your food, and the majestic bugs that keep flying right into your teeth.
Features: Mosquitoes the size of small falcons (these cannot be killed)
Dining: Hot dogs that are somehow both burned and frozen; delicious s'mores, whose ingredients you will inevitably leave sitting at home on the kitchen counter
Accommodations: Sleeping bag that always winds up directly on top of sharp rocks
Short-Term Road Trip
With a small budget, you can't exactly drive to Paris (hovercar fuel is so expensive these days), so you're limited to outlying towns and quirky local attractions. Throw some non-vacationing friends in a car and go check out the Midwest's Largest Ball of Twine, the Twine Museum, or the quaint shoppes of historic Twinesburg. (Twine is used here purely as an example; you are not actually required to do something involving twine.)
If you live near absolutely nothing of interest, that's fine, too; half the fun of road trips is driving through weird towns where everything is backwards and/or haunted. Sometimes you wind up with more memories of some confusing convenience store than of wherever you intended to go in the first place.
Features: Creepy bait shop that only sells candy bars that don't exist anymore, and also worms
Dining: '60s candy bars, worms
Accommodations: Car
Wandering Around The Airport
You can easily experience all the fun of hanging out at the airport without the unnecessary hassle of actually going anywhere! Sure, your friends are in Ibiza, but Ibiza is hot and probably full of sharks, while the airport is air-conditioned and contains almost no sharks. Be sure to call your friends and brag about this.
Features: Impressive windows; views of planes flying off to places that are certainly very exciting
Dining: Ten-dollar airport sandwiches
Accommodations: Bench, floor, moving walkway
New York City
“Buh??” you're probably thinking. “Whaa?” you may add. But if you're willing to travel by bus, you can get from a lot of places to New York for a couple bucks. Of course, if you're sticking with our stated budget, that's about the only thing you can do. You may now stand in one spot for 24 hours until the return bus takes you home.
Features: Wealthy vacationers may attempt to cross the street, but in Manhattan this will run you about fifty dollars.
Dining: Pollution, the disapproving smirks of locals
Accommodations: Your woefully inadequate sneakers
Going on any cheap trips this summer?
Topics: Life
Tags: vacations, road trips, summer, summer travel
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