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This may be the cheapest travel experience ever.
By Lynda Appell of Barnes and Noble affiliate
This travel event happened sometime in the late Seventies. Since I've traveled with my family and/or friends, including my husband to King of Prussia, PA, Mainline suburbs of Philadelphia, New York City, Baltimore MD, Orlando Fl, Dallas TX, Alcupulco MX, Caribou Ranch in Boulder, CO, Virgina Beach, VA, Catskills NY, etc. However when it comes to cheapness my trip to Montreal Quebec is the epitomy. I'm not implying the city itself is cheap as in inferior, poor quality. I mean the man I was traveling with had a thing for pinching pennies. He pinched so hard, if they could talk, they'd scream in pain. He was my then boyfriend. Boy I sure knew how to pick them
I knew he was tight with his money. I definitely found out with this trip how much so. I must give him credit he did spend gas on the car to get there. We started in Cherry Hill New Jersey. That's about ninety miles from New York City. I don't recall the exact route. However I do remember him driving me through New York State. We took turns driving. We reach our destination. So I thought we'd look for a reasonably priced hotel. That was not his idea. He wanted to spend the night in his car. This was not a Winabago or anything like that. This was a regular car. There was no arguing with him. So we spent the night in the auto. It wasn't that simply because he wanted to get intimate. It was he didn't believe in spending money on more regular accomodations. He was a professional electrical engineer. It wasn't that there wasn't enough cash. So the next, bleary day we get to go the Montreal Expo 77. This is what he does. In order not to pay the price to go and see the exhibit he does the following. We go to the front door, we look in the window. He says we saw the exhibit and we go to the next one. This way we can see it without paying for it. The restaurants of what I consider one of most cosmolitan cities in North America were on the caliber of the Woolworth Five and Ten luncheonette. Woolworths to him served the highest quality food, with no exceptions. Speaking of places to eat, there was one good part of the experience. We got to eat Montreal Pizza. At that time, and maybe there still is, a sizeable Italian community in Montreal. The pizza was extra cheezy. I really sank my teeth into that super cheezy piece of heavenly pizza bliss. As wondrously delicious as it was, it didn't begin to make up for the utter cheapness of the traveling experience. Frank's sense of makes those "Frommer's Five Doller a day travel books look extravegant by comparison.
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