Tentative calculations from a few days ago seem to indicate that my expenditures for July-September 2000 were approximately the same as my expenditures for the several months before and after. Whereas I generally stayed put & only had mortgage/co-op payments and day-to-day costs for all the other months, I paid mortgage/co-op costs plus travel expenses last summer.
Maybe further study will reveal something misleading in my math – irregardless, this is very interesting.
Were you an un-paying guest in Europe, largely eating friends’ food?
Also, you might have been more concious of money in Europe. Dunno.