It’s been nearly two months since my last budget post, and we have visited Morocco (twice), Spain, Jordan, Switzerland, Italy, and Israel before flying back to Detroit on December 9th. During these 42 days, we spent a total of $5,780, giving us at a weekly spend rate of $963. This is much better than my […]
My Roma Reunion
Outside of meeting and marrying my husband (and ever since, as he pointed out during the editing phase of this post), the four months I spent studying abroad in Rome, Italy in 2006 were some of the happiest times of my life. My undergraduate alma mater, Kalamazoo College, has a wonderful study abroad program that […]
Happy Thanksgiving from Redhead Roamer
Happy Thanksgiving, dear readers! It’s a little late, but I’ve been busy with a quick, action-packed visit stateside to spend Thanksgiving with my family and celebrate my mom and aunt’s birthday (they’re twins, in case you can’t tell from the picture above). Thanksgiving is a really big affair for my family, and the only one I’ve […]
Our Spanish Sanctuary
Madrid was a happy accident for our trip. We ended up visiting Madrid not once but twice recently after finding out it was actually cheaper to fly from Fez to Madrid and then Madrid to Marrakesh than between these two Moroccan cities. Same thing for Marrakesh to Amman, Jordan, our next destination. Ryanair came to […]
Our Rest of Europe Budget
The last budget post I wrote was for the Balkans as we left Croatia and prepared to enter Western Europe. Over the last month, we visited Munich for Oktoberfest, Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, all around Romania, Cappadocia and Istanbul in Turkey, the wine country and capital of Georgia, Paris, Bruges and Brussels, and, finally, London. We […]
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