California Trip Just Started - $3000 Already Spent!

Considering I live and eat for free where I'm staying… $3000 spent is ridiculous.

The list:

• $500 insurance deductible to fix my truck
• $600 to buy train tickets to California.
• $300 for a new phone (I jumped in a pool with my old one.)
• $50 Swimwear
• $200 hotel room for one night
• $200 loss at a Indian Casino
• $200 odds and ends
• $600 first class plane ticket home
• $150 I pay for dinner night.

Equals $2800 in 10 days! SOB!

I know I'm forgetting a few things, so add another $200 and we have $3000! WOW! This is not even counting the stuff I have to pay for, car payments, insurance, house, two phone payments, cable, internet and more. I estimate to spend another $1000 the last two weeks I'm here. ARG!

Was it worth it?

I've rode a train for the first time. I'm getting ready to fly first-class airfare for the first time. I've seen the famous California La Brea Tar Pits, and million year old dinosaurs being prepared for display. I ran my business away from home for the first time with success. I loss and won decent amounts of money at a Indian Casino. I've seen such beautiful sceneries while here. I drove on the edge of the Pacific Ocean with a crazy half asleep simi-drunk person going up to 90mph while trying to watch the dolphins jump out the ocean and survived. I've watched a nothing fight from a five story balcony in the middle of the night. I've got so drunk I puked all over my self and not care. I'm getting a tan from going swimming often. I've made an angry cat like me. I visited a small Danish town and ate some free chocolate. I've learned so much about the world outside Texas.

I can go on and on, but the point is money comes and goes. Living in a beautiful place rent free and with good friends is Priceless. At least that's what my Visa card tells me.