It’s the first day of a new year. I bet you’re expecting me to post about fresh starts, new beginnings, and a clean slate. Well, you’d be partly right. 2013 is undetermined and clear out ahead today, but I think it’s equally important to look back and appreciate the years before. It’s funny. Not “ha … Continue reading
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My Travels in 2012: a nostalgic New Year’s post
As the year comes to a close, I can’t help but get a little nostalgic for my travels in 2012. I have to mention that some were only penniless, because I was not the one paying the hotel bills… (thanks mom and dad!) I started off the year in Cocoa Beach, Florida and Nassau for … Continue reading
Explorers in a Place Once Familiar
We’re a geocaching family. Have been, and, if you asked me 1 month ago, always will be. But when I got home from school this month, I learned all about dad’s new favorite winter sport–ingress. It has all the benefits of geocaching: you get to look at maps, collect treasure, venture outside of your house, … Continue reading
Road Trip Recycling
This holiday season, besides cramming in doctor, dentist and other medical appointments before returning to the flat land that is Ohio, we’ve been visiting family in NH and NY to have Christmases number 2 and 3. Maybe it’s my newfound obsession with creative recycling, but I’ve been noticing all sorts of neat, crafty ideas on … Continue reading
A New Year’s Makeover
After another semester of college has led to an almost complete neglect of my blog, I realize it is time for a few changes, a little restructuring. In the New Year look forward to the new and improved Penniless Traveler. No longer posting about exclusively free activities every day… I’m loosening the rules. I’ll share … Continue reading
A Lifetime’s Exploration
Sarah Ryan, blogger of “A Lifetime’s Exploration,” graciously awarded me her new Inspirational Travel Blog Award–although I’ve been shamelessly neglecting to penniless travel, what with finals and all coming up. In any case, many thanks to her for her kindness and now I get to pick 5 other inspirational bloggers! 1. thewanderlustgene.wordpress.com A beautiful and most-definitely inspirational … Continue reading
I have not fallen off the face of the earth!
Hello out there penniless travelers! I wanted to assure you all that I have not fallen off the face of the earth–pretty darn close though. As many of you may have guessed I’m back at college, and I’ve discovered that being here doesn’t allow me much time to travel, much less to write about it. … Continue reading
A Mushroom House in the Woods: A New York Fairytale
The final stop on our fabulous road trip was “The Mushroom House.” Where I said “stopped” I probably should have said that my Dad and I “trespassed.” This is private property, as in some-lucky-shmuck lives here. A little tricky to find, this house is up a narrow dirt road off the side of a park. … Continue reading
Victorian Houses aren’t usually built on factories?
One of the quickest stops (and posts) on our road trip, we HAD to stop at the Victorian House on top of a factory, if only because it was so close to the mind-numbingly mind-blowing “Green on Top” traffic light. I couldn’t find out too much of the history for this stop (which … Continue reading
Is that even legal?: America’s Only Upside Down Traffic Light
This was BY FAR the most exciting of the stops my dad and I made on our fabulous two day road trip from Boston to central Ohio. And that means a lot when you take a look at all the odd, quirky, beautiful, unique things we saw. I read about this stop on Roadside America. … Continue reading
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