This was the summer of 2019, where we lived homeless, moving from campground to campground, with some weekends looking for White River Junction, VT cheap accommodation options for a little “fun” with the kids.
Once upon a time in the year 2019, my family was faced with homelessness. While the summer before this summer of 2019, we had to live separately, we were not homeless, as the kids went to live with their Dads, and I had a room at my dad’s home.
All that said, the summer of 2019 proved to be my first time ever considering living in a tent with my three kids. At the time, they were pre-teens and teens, and I was very confident that my trio and I would be living in tents. I was so confident, in fact, that I told the ER triage nurse that it was my plan when he asked what I was going to do to handle the stress in my life that caused me to be at the ER that day with stroke-level blood pressure, but perfectly “fine” results with medical testing.
I remember him grinning at me, asking how old my kids were, and if I was planning to live in a circus-sized tent. I laughed, but he did not realize I was serious. The reality of my world at that time had become all too much to bear, but living another summer without my kids sounded much more painful than the concept of camping with the kids for a summer in New Hampshire until the stress reduced, and things settled into some form of normal for us again.
During the summer of 2019, my ex-husband (Dad to my 2 younger kiddos) was facing a similar situation. Due to his financial issues, he was looking at foreclosure and was uncertain where he was heading, and so together we opted to camp together. He asked if he could come along, and I thought why not?! We have always been decent to each other, and he probably is more equipped to live camping style than I was back then.
So the summer of 2019 was a wonderful season, although my firstborn ended up unable to camp and live homeless with us, they opted to return to stay with their Dad, but visiting when they could. It was hard, but they simply got too sick with camping so it was best for them to do this in that summer season.
One of the ways my sons’ Dad and I worked to make this homelessness season more fun than scary was to take adventures on the weekend. One such adventure led us to check out White River Inn and Suites in White River Junction, Vermont.
This was the place where my sons learned how to swim. This was the first place my sons and I had been upgraded to stay in a suite, rather than us sharing a 2 bed one-room hotel space between four of us. This was a space that quickly grew to be a family favorite pet friendly hotels white river junction vt during the 2019 homelessness season for the family. Although we did not have pets other than a hamster named Bear during the summer of 2019.
We had stayed here one weekend in a regular room, and it was decent. You get the free breakfast, which is among some of our favorite choices of all the White River Junction VT cheap accommodation options we opted to stay in during the 2019 summer season.
I do see that they are a pet friendly accomodation, but only for smaller dogs weighing under 50lbs. This carries a $25 per night fee, with a max of $100. They do not allow cats.
When we checked into the hotel, we would pull up into their free parking lot and go inside to provide our ID and name to get our hotel room keys. On one particular day, they upgraded us for some reason, perhaps they sensed we were homeless, as we had started to book hotel rooms here more frequently due to the ease of being homeless in a hotel room rather than multiple tents at a campground spot like Crowsnest in Newport, NH.
I was in shock, and so happy that they upgraded us. I was excited to let the boys know about this, and so we got our things ready from the car onto the cart, which you can get inside the hotel room lobby area.
These make it much easier to bring your clothing and bedding items up to the hotel room when you are traveling as a larger family of 2 pre-teens and 2 adults. We lived in our tents and vehicles, which means our entire life was mostly in the back of a van during the summer of 2019, with some stuff being inside the boys’ dad’s suburban as well.
You learn to pack things up tightly when living on the road like this. I am still grateful that our first homeless season was in the summer of 2019 in New Hampshire, for the winter season in this region of the world is not so forgiving.
I do try to find a silver lining in every situation I am in.
Once we got checked in, received our hotel room key, and ventured up the elevator to our room, we were greeted with a full kitchen space, a bedroom with 2 beds, and a pull-out sofa bed with living room space, along with a balcony to see the outside world from.
Not only that, but there was an office space in the corner for me to do my work from home, writing for bloggers and such. I believe this is my favorite spot for White River Junction VT cheap accommodation choices, as it has a spacious inside area, a lobby that you can go sit and relax in, a large breakfast buffet bar space, and the indoor pool really sold us on White River Inn and Suites White River Junction.
I do not recall the price point of this space back in the day, but at the time of sharing this information with you, I can see that booking a smaller room is about $105 per night, plus applicable fees and taxes.
I know that there were many family memories made her eduring our homeless season of 2019 with preteen boys, and I am forever grateful for having an indoor pool to swim in at the end of the night, it makes falling asleep easier, and to have shelter because we were homeless but the boys’ dad had a job and I had my online business to help us get what we needed, even if we didn’t have “extras” in that season of life.
Being homeless by choice, as a reset, so to speak, has been a blessing to my anxiety and my kids. They, especially the boys, have learned that you can survive nearly any crazy situation that the world will have you fear. Any experience that shows you that you can survive things that you once feared is a blessing in disguise.
So, if you are searching for White River Junction VT cheap accommodation or maybe you need pet-friendly hotels White River Junction VT, then maybe you should consider our previous favorite spot that gave us warmth, hospitality, and shelter during our season of homelessness in 2019.
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