Cheap tricks for summer travel

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With the dollar tanking abroad and gas, lodging and flight costs soaring in the USA, leisure travelers face an expensive summer. But that doesn't mean you have to stay home. USA TODAY asked travel experts for money-saving tips for summer getaways.

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The USAToday story does have some useful tips for summer getaways but they can still be pretty pricey. Anyway, I have been searching for tickets to go home this summer and visit w/ my family in tow and even though I am trying to book early and way in advance I'm still unable to find anything under $340 per person which I am sure to most is not that bad but when your use to flying home to visit under $220 per person it's a big chunk of change. Good thing we don't have to pay for lodging cause then we would really have a problem. You can't even find a hotel room in Santa Barbara under $150 per night per person during the summer months.

[wackychick]

Even a recent road trip we took was just shy of what it would have cost to fly the three of us to our destination. EVERYTHING is getting way to expensive.