Around this time every May, I get a press release from AAA predicting how many cars will hit the road for Memorial Day weekend. This year of course, a lot of us will be staying closer to home than we’d planned for Memorial Day weekend. Hopefully many of us will …

Updated march 2020 Following two exotic trips over the winter (Guadeloupe and Senegal), plus spring break jaunt to Pittsburgh, we opted to be relatively frugal for the summer and staycation. We wanted it to feel like a real vacation, though, not just a week hanging around the house. One goal …