Cheapest Move/Hot Springs enroute

[tom winter]

on 4/22/04 8:23 PM, Scott Hinckley at audi at thehinckleys.com wrote:

> At 02:16 PM 4/22/2004, Cat wrote:
Scott - Nice that you brought up AAA.

Cat - when you go in AAA to pick up your maps, get a AAA + membership for
the drive. It gives you 4x100 miles of towing. Hopefully you won't need to
use it, but at a cost of - I think - $60 0r $65, if you ever have to use it,
it's the greatest. 

Enjoy the drive, take the back roads and see if you can't find these two
books: Hot Springs and Hot Pools of the Northwest/Hot Springs and Hot Pools
of the Southwest both by Majorie Gersh-Young. They list a ton of free,
remote natural hot springs (in addition to more developed, pay to use pools)
that provide ideal camping destinations.

Tom

>>> What is the cheapest way to move cross country?
> 
> Cat,
> 
> I've done it twice, once the cheap way and once the expensive. If I did it
> again I'd try for the cheap.
> 
> Cheap Method:
> 
> It is time for a change in your life, a new beginning as it were. Free
> yourself of all old baggage. Get rid of anything and everything that does
> NOT meet both of the following criteria:
> A) Used as part of your daily life
> B) Expensive or difficult to replace
> 
> Ship only the clothes that fit you and your new life, they are light and
> inexpensive to ship.
> 
> If you have a few memory items you just can't let go of, ship those boxes
> ground freight by the cheapest method (UPS, FEDEx, USPS, whatever), who
> cares if it takes 3 weeks for them to get there.
> 
> If you have a car you don't wat to get rid of first:
> What is left will hopefully fit in the trunk of your car. (You don't want
> objects in the visible part of the car to encourage people to break in).
> 
> Now, hopefully you have allowed a good bit of time to cross the country (2
> weeks at least) as there is a lot of beautiful inexpensive scenery and
> National Parks. Go to your nearest AAA office and get their maps for your
> route. Stay off the interstates (they go through the most boring areas) and
> look for state highways marked with black dots on the AAA map, those are
> the breathtakingly scenic routes.
> 
> Stay at camp grounds or National Park campsites. For the parks you probably
> need to reserve in advance, but don't tie too much of your trip to a hard
> schedule. There will be places that captivate you and keep you an extra day
> or two. For the campgrounds or motels you can look at your maps at noon and
> decide where you will end up that night. Then call ahead to reserve, don't
> use national hotlines, call direct and ask for their lowest price.
> 
> This is an amazing country to drive across, I have driven it 3 times now,
> seen the majority of the National parks, and been in 47 of the 50 states.
> (who goes to Rhode Island anyway?)
> 
> Scott  
> 
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