{"id":1104,"date":"2013-07-09T11:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2015-06-18T13:52:01","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T17:52:01","slug":"an-experiment-in-timesharing-2013-timeshare-journey-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/1104","title":{"rendered":"An experiment in Timesharing: 2013 Timeshare Journey &#8211; August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing I like about the last calls, you can cancel them up to 30 days out.\u00a0 As seems to be the norm, we shifted our last week of Julys plan, instead of uprooting and heading to Willis, TX; we stayed in Horseshoe Bend, AR.\u00a0 We end up styaing (virtually of course) at Horseshoe Bend\u00a0through most of August; from 7\/13 through 8\/23.\u00a0 From here we return to Crossville, TN til the end of the month. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>August was a tough month; luckily there was lots of space at Horseshoe Bend.\u00a0 Through a sale at RCI we completed our bookings and have a pretty good course laid out for the rest of the year, or at least through the middle of December. Now that summer is ending, most of the high cost weeks are a thing of the past, I hope.<\/p>\n<p>The link to a PDF: <a href=\"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Fulltime-Timesharing-TestPlan-v1.pdf\">Fulltime Timesharing &#8211; TestPlan v1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>August\u00a0cost breakdown:<br \/>\nLodging: $1085<br \/>\nHotel: $0<br \/>\nRepositioning (mileage\/cost): 501 miles \/ $276<\/p>\n<p>Running Costs: Year to date cost: $6990<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/1104\">August<\/a> total: $1361<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/1016\">July<\/a> total: $1294<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/978\">June<\/a> total: $1417<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/913\">May<\/a> total: $1443<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/891\">April<\/a> total: $1475<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Goal: &lt; $15,000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Goal: &lt; $15,000<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing I like about the last calls, you can cancel them up to 30 days out.\u00a0 As seems to be the norm, we shifted our last week of Julys plan, instead of uprooting and heading to Willis, TX; we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/1104\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[102],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-timeshare","tag-timeshare"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1016,"url":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/1016","url_meta":{"origin":1104,"position":0},"title":"An experiment in Timesharing: 2013 Timeshare Journey &#8211; July","author":"DR D","date":"June 7, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The end of June we made a switch. 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