Monthly Archives: April 2008

Day 242: No-Spend Day*

Actu­ally posted on May 4 — still trav­el­ing but finally in a loca­tion where time and inter­net access are avail­able at the same time. I had a no-spend day — in that I didn’t spend any money directly.  My mom and I walked for miles and miles and had a great time, took tons of pho­tos, saw [...]
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Day 241: Tolls, Food, & Nail Clippers

Actu­ally posted on May 4 — still trav­el­ing but finally in a loca­tion where time and inter­net access are avail­able at the same time. Toll Charges — $12.00 More express­way toll charges.  They’re almost unheard of where I live but here in the East they seem to be a fact of dri­ving life. McDonald’s — $1.15 Can you believe what they [...]
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Day 240: Toll Charges

Actu­ally posted on May 4 — still trav­el­ing but finally in a loca­tion where time and inter­net access are avail­able at the same time. Express­way Toll Charges — $8.00 In this part of the coun­try, we made good progress but not with­out a cost.
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Day 239: Milk & French Fries

Total Spent Today: $3.82 McDonald’s — $3.82 The first day of our drive across the coun­try (me, my mom, and my mom’s dog — aka The Girls).  My mom got a han­ker­ing for some Micky D french fries.  I had lunched on a cold left­over but­ter­milk bis­cuit with smoked turkey sand­wich (quite yummy, actu­ally) and fig­ured I’d [...]
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Day 238: More Car Mats & Trip Preparation

Total Spent Today:  $ 114.77 Net Spent Today: $ 68.70 Advance Auto Parts — ($46.07) My mom decided that what she liked the best about the Betty Boop floor mats was the dark color — not so much the Betty Boop fig­ure.  At least not $50’s worth.  So we retuned the funky floor mats and $46.07 went back onto [...]
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