One of the things about working for a small start up company is that you get more careful about expense.  I am pretty convinced I would make a good travel agent having spent the weekend manipulating the airline sites to create a affordable routing for London to Boston to Washington to San Francisco to Winnipeg to Minneapolis to New York to London, over ten days.  You also get canny about hotels and while you get the odd dive there are also some wonderful discoveries.  The Bed and Breakfast tradition in the US is closer to the boutique hotel in Europe.  I had another night in the delightful Fox Hotel in Copenhagen last week and I earlier referenced the Inn on the Bridge in upstate New York.  Either way, one of those wonderful discoveries awaited me after a transatlantic flight.  The Mary Prentiss Inn is on the red line, close to Harvard Square and excellent value.  I remember all those years working for IBM Institute for Knowledge Management, and the soulless nights in the Cambridge Marriott on a corporate purchasing deal.  With a little bit of enterprise you can find places, that despite not being home, feel like home.