Gwen wrote: Katherine, we mainly stay at cheap motels in the USA Motel 6 - by doing that we used to manage on US$50 per day which covered petrol, food , accommodation, any clothes we would buy ( we love goodwill stores) and presents for the girls
We would also stay with Servas hosts -over the 6 years we spent in USA/Canada we stayed with 60 Servas Hosts, so ,since the minimum stay is two days, that accounts for 120 days at least,over the six years. Most times this is a saving but sometimes one does things with the host that one would not bother to do alone - like concerts, etc or maybe taking the host out to dinner or something ( I love concerts but not when on a budget trip). These hosts really made our trip and that is why I have 60 of the best friends in those countries which I could possibly have and we keep in regular contact . Having met them over along period also means we have know some for a long time and have had wedding invites etc etc which we have enjoyed immensely.
In Early November we have one of our hosts, a couple from Seattle ,visiting us for 10 days so we will have lots of fun seeing them again - this length of stay is not usual but we are not "Servas" anymore we are long standing friends by now -they have visited us here before and we have visited them many times. On their last visit we did not have time to show them the district so that is why I begged them to give us more time on this visit( which you will have to do when you visit ) God Bless Gwen
OK, that makes sense, then. I just think about what our two-week vacation costs us, and can't picture where we would get the $$$$ for any more than that!
Katherine