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Affording Being On The Road

Friday, January 18, 2019

If you are thinking about having some kind of a road trip, whether long or short, you will probably be keen to ensure that it doesn’t bankrupt you. But this is one of those things which can often be surprisingly difficult to do cheaply, and you will find that it requires a certain amount of planning and preparation to make sure that you do do it as inexpensively as you possibly can. As it turns out, it is easy enough to be on the road for cheap, but you need to be aware of a number of things, and those are what we are going to take a look at today in this post. What follows is a few ideas about making your next road trip as cheap as possible, no matter where you are planning to go or who with.

Your Means Of Transport

Going on a road trip can mean many things, and it might not be exactly what you initially think. If you are keen to save money, in fact, you might not decide to go for the traditional family saloon car way of getting around, as these tend to not be the most efficient fuel-wise. Instead, you might prefer to take a coach - if there are enough of you - so that you can save a little money that way. You’ll be surprised how cheaply you can hire a coach, or a minibus if that is more suitable for your purposes. If you are going alone or with one other, then you might instead choose to go by motorcycle, which is even more efficient still - and has that added advantage of meaning you can more easily put the miles behind you. If you do go down this route, be sure to check out the likes of Solomotoparts first and make sure that you have all the safety gear you really need to get going. Being clever with your means of transport, as you can see, can be a great way of affording your road trip more easily.


Driving Efficiently

It is also of course possible to drive in a manner which is more efficient, and which will therefore save you a lot of money in the long run, and make the road trip considerably cheaper overall. As it happens, learning to drive in this way does not take much and is not all that hard, as in fact it is just about knowing a few key things which you can take on board. For instance, you will want to make sure that you decelerate rather than brake wherever possible, as braking actually uses more fuel overall. Similarly, if you change gears at exactly two and a half thousand revs, you will use less fuel too. And you should make use of any downhills you have by putting the clutch down throughout them, so that you break transmission and just allow gravity to carry you wherever possible. All of this, while being small changes, will add up to make your entire road trip considerably cheaper overall, and yet it is so easy to do.

Planning Meals

Food is going to be one of the most important things, and the better that you plan for what you are going to eat, the less that you are going to spend on the whole. This is because many of the places that are easiest to stop for a bite to eat on the road are considerably more expensive for that very reason. It is much better to have some food packed which you can eat, and to know about some places you can go to eat which are cheaper than service stations, even if that means going slightly off track from time to time. The important thing is that you are planning ahead, as by doing that you can make sure you are going to save time and money as much as possible. If you fail to plan ahead, conversely, then there is no reason to think that you are going to save money on the food and drink. This is something which is so easy to do, and yet so easy to overlook, so you need to remind yourself of it to make it happen and make it worthwhile.


As you can see, you can easily make a road trip considerably easier to afford so long as you follow some of these basic rules of thumb. Do these, and you will find that your money goes further, which in turn means that your road trip will be much more enjoyable.

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