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My fiancee and I are saving for our wedding so we have been looking for ways to still have fun and save money at the same time.

This past weekend we went to Herriman State Park, here some information taken directly from the parks website.

“Harriman State Park, located in Rockland and Orange counties, is the second-largest park in the parks system, with 31 lakes and reservoirs, 200 miles of hiking trails”

Overall we had an awesome time. Did some hiking(I only fell in the creek once), did some tent camping and a lot of outdoor cooking.  Overall we spent under $300 including fuel costs($4.29 a gallon), ideally we could have picked a park that wasn’t as far of a drive(this one was 6 hours by car).

Overall we had a ton of fun hiking, and visiting the beautiful lakes and just relaxing away from the computers, TVs and cell phones.

Feel free to post about your cheap vacation ideas.

Since food prices have been going through the roof lately we have decided to plant a larger backyard garden this year. Last year we planted sweet peppers, hot peppers and tomatoes.

This year we are planting lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, oregano, basil and broccoli. In previous years we only planting seedlings, this year everything other than the tomatoes with be started as seeds, we bought a little indoor green house kit from Burpie. I will place this in my dining room window(it gets the most sun), until they are ready to be planted outside.

I have been composting for about a year now and have a bushel basket full of compost(also known as black gold), that I will use to hopefully grow a nice rich garden.

To be honest I don’t know if I saved and real money by doing it this way but I enjoy it and it gives you a sense of accomplishment and the stuff just darn taste better.