Travel Packing
One thing I’ve learned when packing for a trip or packing for travel, less is always better. Whether you’re packing for a 1-week trip or a 1-month trip, you need about the same amount of clothing. Packing fewer items means your bag is lighter to carry around, there are fewer items to unpack when you {Read more about Travel Packing}
Meal Planning for Campers
Planning out what you are going to eat while camping is very important. You don’t want to get to your destination only to find out you’re missing a crucial food element. For some reason, camping makes everyone extra hungry, too. I think it’s all the fresh air, biking, hiking, and exploring that goes along with {Read more about Meal Planning for Campers}
Preparing Your Home for an Exchange
When getting your home ready for a home exchange, there are good and bad components. The good thing is it makes you clean out your pantry, organize your closets a bit, and straighten out your dresser drawers. The bad thing about a home exchange is that you have to clean out your pantry, organize your {Read more about Preparing Your Home for an Exchange}
Frugal in San Francisco Part 3
A family of four vacationing in a great city like San Francisco, California can be expensive. Once you add up the costs involved with getting there, feeding your family, doing fun activities, and staying in a hotel, your travel budget can be shot. That’s why a home exchange is so easy on your wallet. There’s {Read more about Frugal in San Francisco Part 3}
Frugal in San Francisco Part 2
Not having spent much time in the city of San Francisco, the point of our visit was to immerse ourselves in the neighborhood and walk everywhere. When we arrived at our home exchange house on Sunday evening, we parked our car in their garage and agreed to not drive it again until we left for {Read more about Frugal in San Francisco Part 2}
Frugal in San Francisco Part 1
When we go on a trip and travel somewhere, our trips are all about food. We like to eat and eat well. In general, we try to cook breakfast and dinners at home, go to lunch somewhere, pack a picnic lunch to bring along or pick up food at a local market. Meals at restaurants {Read more about Frugal in San Francisco Part 1}
Vacation Meal Planning
If you’re a regular reader here at Go Gingham, you know that I’m a regular weekly meal planner. I’m such a regular meal planner, I even plan our meals when going on a vacation or for a weekend away. For spring break, we’re headed to San Francisco for a home exchange. The people we’re trading {Read more about Vacation Meal Planning}
The Love Honorable Mentions
Now that we’ve completed the “14 Days of Things I Love” series, there are a few items that I really like but, for a variety of reasons (as you’ll see below), didn’t quite make the list.
Home Exchange Love
I love to travel and see the world but travel can be an expensive indulgence. Eating out, hotels, and rental cars can all really add up. Now, the first thing we do when the travel bug hits is start searching our favorite home exchange service website. It wasn’t always like this. Years ago, I worked {Read more about Home Exchange Love}
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you’re enjoying a day of family, friends, giving thanks, and traditions both old and new. We’re hosting Thanksgiving at our house this year and getting everything ready for the big day. The turkey is in the midst of a dry brine as I write this, the Thanksgiving meal spreadsheet (yes, say {Read more about Happy Thanksgiving}
How Is It That
…when we go to the beach in Oregon in November, we have nicer weather than during the summer?
Summer Travels
Our family will be on vacation for the next couple of weeks. While we’re away, I have a couple of guest posts scheduled as well as a couple of my own, for you to look forward to. You can read about the topics and authors below. My posts are all scheduled for the next few {Read more about Summer Travels}
Camp Cooking Supplies
With camping season upon us, I thought I’d share with you how my camp cooking supplies are organized. My goal while camping is the same in my kitchen – healthy food that tastes good, minimal packaging, and keeping waste to a minimum. In this case, waste not only with food but also keeping the amount {Read more about Camp Cooking Supplies}
Home Exchange
Do you have dreams of taking a family vacation to Europe? Would you like to stay in a home, have access to a car, and experience life in another country? If the thought of staying in expensive hotels and eating out at restaurants 3 times a day doesn’t sound appealing to you (or your pocket {Read more about Home Exchange}
