Travel Insurance & Money
Travel insurance for our October cabin: did we buy it?
October 17, 2026 — 4 min read
A personal blog from a brick ranch near Maxton, North Carolina: a married couple in their forties taking one budget road trip a month, with the real numbers for gas, motels, cabins, campsites, car upkeep and travel insurance.
Twenty-one trips and every receipt since March 2025. Our cost per trip, per night and per mile, and the places we'd go back to tom…
Wes ran the numbers on repairs against a car payment. Why we're keeping it two more years and what would change our minds.…
We booked an October cabin near Boone back in April. How booking early saved us $210, and the refund terms we read twice.…
Wes's mother turned 70, and some weekends belong to family. A backyard fish fry in Pembroke for 30 people and how we covered our s…
Two hours west for a weekend of free greenway walks, whitewater center trails with paid parking and a hotel out near the airport.…
Same room, same dates, three prices. What happened when I called the front desk of a family-run motel in Southport instead.…
Hi, I'm Heather. My husband Wes and I live near Maxton, North Carolina, in a 1998 brick ranch on an acre of sandy ground, with a carport, a small garden and a beagle mix named June who thinks every car ride is about her. Wes grew up a few miles away in Pembroke. I grew up in Laurinburg, where my mom still lives. I work the…
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The wheel bearing taught us a lesson. Why car money now lives apart from trip money, and how we built it to $1,000 by the start of August.…
Twenty-one trips and every receipt since March 2025. Our cost per trip, per night and per mile, and the places we'd go back to tomorrow.…
Wes ran the numbers on repairs against a car payment. Why we're keeping it two more years and what would change our minds.…
We booked an October cabin near Boone back in April. How booking early saved us $210, and the refund terms we read twice.…
