{"id":48,"date":"2020-07-16T07:42:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T07:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/smooth-blog-pro\/?p=48"},"modified":"2020-07-16T07:51:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T07:51:03","slug":"planning-a-cross-country-road-trip-on-a-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/smooth-blog-pro\/2020\/07\/16\/planning-a-cross-country-road-trip-on-a-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning a Cross-Country Road Trip on a Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"

As much as we love Jack Kerouac, his depiction of traveling across the U.S.A. in “On The Road,” is more capricious than realistic.<\/p>\n

In June 2015 I was about to graduate from UC Davis. I had a little bit of pocket money saved up, plus an online job that I could do from anywhere with Wifi. Wanderlust had always made a home deep inside of me, and as I approached the end of the spring term, I decided there may never be a better time for me to hit the road and experience the country I belong to.<\/p>\n

Planning a 50 day long adventure was no easy task, though. It required hours upon hours of research, correspondence and compromise (due to a tight budget).<\/p>\n

Here, I intend to share with you the valuable things I learned, and the steps it takes to prepare such an endeavor.<\/p>\n

Steps<\/h2>\n
1. Pick Your Pals<\/div>\n
2. Plan Your Route<\/div>\n
3. Assess Your Budget<\/div>\n
4. Find Your Lodging<\/div>\n
5. Prep Your Vehicle<\/div>\n
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As much as we love Jack Kerouac, his depiction of traveling across the U.S.A. in “On The Road,” is more capricious than realistic. In June 2015 I was about to graduate from UC Davis. I had a little bit of pocket money saved up, plus an online job that I could do from anywhere with Wifi. Wanderlust had always made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":51,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-road-trips","category-travel"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/smooth-blog-pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2020\/07\/erik-mclean-ZRns2R5azu0-unsplash.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/smooth-blog-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/smooth-blog-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/smooth-blog-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/smooth-blog-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/smooth-blog-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/smooth-blog-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/smooth-blog-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/smooth-blog-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/smooth-blog-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/smooth-blog-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/smooth-blog-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}