I need $613.00
Jun. 29th, 2006 09:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charliesmumI just did some calculations to see if we could afford to go to Cooperstown NY for a family vacation.
I found a place that is a very inexpensive campground, $22.00/night if you have a tent, which I do. I personally loathe sleeping in a tent, but the husband and the child like it, and I'll put up with it. There's bathrooms and showers, and that's all I really care about.
So then I figure about $100 in gas or so to travel there. That's probably an optimistic number, but whatever.
Then I figured 3 meals a day at about $20/per day conservatively would be $240, and activities and things would run about $150. There are a surprising number of things one can do for free in the area, and the Baseball Hall of Fame isn't even that expensive - $15 per grownup and $5 for the child.
It all comes out to $613.00. Which I'm not really certain I could spare. But I really want to do this.
I've actually wanted to go to Cooperstown ever since I read "The Secret of Mirror Bay" when I was a child. Nancy Drew goes to Cooperstown and stays in this lovely cabin by Ostego Lake* which used to be known as "Glimmerglass" because it is so smooth and clear. I don't know why, but the whole area really caught my imagination; one of the rules of writing a Nancy Drew book is if you send her somewhere real, you need to include a travelogue.
And now with Charlie so enamoured of Baseball, it seems like a perfect place to go. And we haven't had a real family vacation in, well, ever.
Anyone have any suggestions how I can raise $600 plus dollars soon? Still can't get the Hoosier sold, so that's out. I'm going to try to put money aside, but that never seems to work out right. Something always comes up.
*Which I swear I found on line. The cabin in the photograph looked so much like the one I remembered being described in the book, and it was right on the lake with a dock and everything. That, however, I know I can't afford. I'm not an 18 year old amatur detective with a famous lawyer father.
I found a place that is a very inexpensive campground, $22.00/night if you have a tent, which I do. I personally loathe sleeping in a tent, but the husband and the child like it, and I'll put up with it. There's bathrooms and showers, and that's all I really care about.
So then I figure about $100 in gas or so to travel there. That's probably an optimistic number, but whatever.
Then I figured 3 meals a day at about $20/per day conservatively would be $240, and activities and things would run about $150. There are a surprising number of things one can do for free in the area, and the Baseball Hall of Fame isn't even that expensive - $15 per grownup and $5 for the child.
It all comes out to $613.00. Which I'm not really certain I could spare. But I really want to do this.
I've actually wanted to go to Cooperstown ever since I read "The Secret of Mirror Bay" when I was a child. Nancy Drew goes to Cooperstown and stays in this lovely cabin by Ostego Lake* which used to be known as "Glimmerglass" because it is so smooth and clear. I don't know why, but the whole area really caught my imagination; one of the rules of writing a Nancy Drew book is if you send her somewhere real, you need to include a travelogue.
And now with Charlie so enamoured of Baseball, it seems like a perfect place to go. And we haven't had a real family vacation in, well, ever.
Anyone have any suggestions how I can raise $600 plus dollars soon? Still can't get the Hoosier sold, so that's out. I'm going to try to put money aside, but that never seems to work out right. Something always comes up.
*Which I swear I found on line. The cabin in the photograph looked so much like the one I remembered being described in the book, and it was right on the lake with a dock and everything. That, however, I know I can't afford. I'm not an 18 year old amatur detective with a famous lawyer father.
