Jeremiah Tolbert

Sarah and I are leav­ing for a much-​​needed cheap vaca­tion on Saturday.  The only thing is… we don’t really know where we’re going.  We’ve dis­cussed sev­eral dif­fer­ent options, but none of them are per­fect.  Here are the options:

The Desert Road Trip

This is the default trip.  This involves load­ing up every­thing in our car and aim­ing for Flagstaff.  This is a photography-​​oriented trip.  We’d visit many great desert scenes such as Lower Antelope Canyon, the Grand Canyon, the Petrified Forest, and so on.  We’d spend 9 days roam­ing the American Southwest look­ing for beau­ti­ful images, meet­ing inter­est­ing peo­ple, and gen­er­ally soak­ing up the atmos­phere.  It woudl be very relaxed and leisurely.

The New York Crazy Trip

We’ve also con­sid­er­ing fly­ing into New York for the week.  I’ve never been, and I’ve been get­ting inter­view calls for design com­pa­nies based there.  If I get a follow-​​up inter­view with one com­pany, I would need to go, so why not com­bine job-​​seeking with plea­sure?  Airfaire deals are right under our bud­get of $1500, so we’d have to eat inex­pen­sively while there to keep from going through our cash too quickly, but we could make it work.

“Lets Go Into Debt Again” Trip

I’ve been watch­ing the prices to Paris, London, Barcelona, and Costa Rica for a cou­ple of weeks.  Unfortunately, none have dropped quite to the lev­els that they would need to for us to be able to jus­tify it with­out ring­ing up credit card debt, which is not some­thing you real­lyw ant to do when you’re unem­ployed.  Vacations are impor­tant, but you still have to come home at the end of them and deal with your finances.   So if a vaca­tion pack­age to Paris mirac­u­lously turned up for $1500, you can bet that’s where we would go.  But that’s not likely to happen.

Something else?

Got a wild idea of what we can do for 9 days for under $1500?  Preferrably some­thing not bone-​​cold?  Drop us a line with your sug­ges­tion.  I have no idea where we are going to be on Sunday.  I’m excited to find out though.  And if you have ideas for the Desert Trip about things I should pho­to­graph, let me know.  I don’t really know the area that well.