But with a tiny bit more than that, they could buy one!
http://www.norther...00362614_200362614 (I went on a 9 day, 3000+ mile roadtrip from Albany to north Florida and back up to northern NY last summer with two other people. We saw 8 abandonments, stayed in hotels 3 or 4 nights, slept overnight in multiple abandonments, wrassled a lot of ghosts without fancy equipment, and between the three of us the trip cost less than $500. Total. All of us.)
Then again, I never got a t-shirt out of the deal.