My boyfriend and I had been saving for a big European vacation for over a year.
Just as we were preparing to book the flights and hotels, his mother got sick, and it became too financially precarious a time to spend any savings.
We’d already secured the time off and the illness was really stressing him out so we decided to take a road trip instead.
We turned spending the least amount of money possible into a challenge and stayed at all these crazy motels, went to these weird roadside attractions, and just had a wild time.
Then on the last night, he proposed.
So, that was good, too.