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The Art of the Mini-Vacation 2: The Budget All vacations of any length of time to any destination require one thing. No, not your iPhone, although they do come in handy. Every vacation requires a budget. Regardless of if you are currently worth millions or have, by legal means hopefully, access to unlimited funds you still have to mind an idea of what you plan to spend. Most people plan well ahead of time and allot certain monies for certain things, i.e a hundred bucks for gas, another hundred for food and so on. So how do you budget a spontaneous mini-vacation? Well, that’s easy. If you’ve picked the proper destination, half the battle is done. It is imperative, as it pertains to the mini-vacay, that you pick a place you can get to on a single tank of gas. If you are flying, you w...

Part 1: Choosing the right destination. You’ve taken big vacations before. You’ve saved up sick days and vacation time all year long, planned a huge two-week trip, bought airline tickets, rented vehicles, bargained a sitter for the dog—the whole nine. The vacation is great but you get back to the job to find your work piled up and you can’t get away again for another year. That’s no fun. But what if you could vacation any time you wanted? This is where the mini-vacation tosses on a cape and saves the day…or the entire weekend. The mini-vacation is a quick getaway from the daily routine. It isn’t a full-fledged beg-the-boss-for-leave vacation, but an escape for a few days you’ll be talking about at the water cooler on Monday. The mini-vacay can be as simple as a same day sc...