I believe this is directly affecting the price of flights as well. This year has already been a challenging one navigating the discount, cheap flight websites almost every day to plan for a hefty number of trips I'm taking this year.
I'm very excited to be taking these trips, don't get me wrong. I'm visiting Vegas, I'm flying home to visit my new nephew, baby John, I'm flying internationally to Italy to be in my best friends wedding! It's all fabulously exciting and very much worth my time, but my bank account keeps frowning at me...
As a 'starving artist', I find these prices to be even more daunting. All things I want to do and I will end up doing, even if it means months of raman noodles and no cable ;). Whatever happened to the days of discount travel sites actually offering discounts?? I've been searching for cheap flights on hotwire, orbitz, priceline, etc, and it seems to me that the prices they spit out are what you would pay if you were going to the airline site itself. I miss the 'good old days'...am I actually old enough to say that?
It's so funny when I reminisce about 'back in the day' when I would stop at the gas pump on my way back from senior year classes and I'd sift around the floor and seats of my mazda 323 hatchback and find about $2 worth of change. I'd walk inside to the clerk, "$2 on number 4 please", and I'd have a decent amount of gas to get me through the week. Heaven.
Well, prices are rising...so I hope minimum wage gets on board soon enough, or I book that next big Tim Burton film and get a chance to pay my entire family's gas for a few years!
Got any secret good advice on how to save money on flights or at the pump?? Let me know!
Ooh, for those of you with smartphones, there's an app called 'Gas Buddy' and it tells you the price of the gas in the area you are so you can find the cheapest. At least you may only spend $4.60 as opposed to $4.89 ;)
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