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8 Tips to Hack Your Way to Travel More and Better
Travel hacking: are you new to this idea or perhaps only have dipped your toes a bit into what is affectionately known as the game? Travel hacking can be thought of as maximizing how you travel – and can be as simple or complex as you want it to be. Here are some important ways…
Credit: Basics, Cards, Myths
I recently posted on a travel group asking for recommendations on how everyone was keeping track of miles/points/credit cards (IYKYK right? haha – I do plan on sharing what I came up with in a later post since it’s still evolving atm). It’s pretty interesting to see how travel hacking has gotten so mainstream over…
Life, Love, Travel & When Cake Turns Into Paris
My buddy reaches out to see if I would be able to do his girlfriend’s birthday cake and we start chatting about the trip he has planned for her. He confesses that he wishes that he could take her to her dream location since it’s her 30th birthday and I ask him where? His response:…
Life, Love & the Pursuit of Travel Hacking Part 1: Why Chase Sapphire Preferred is your first step
Two years later, I still stand by telling people that the Chase Sapphire Preferred (CSP) card is hard to beat. It had a low $95 annual fee and has many great features that makes it the best travel credit card to have in your wallet when you’re starting out. The current ELEVATED sign up bonus…
Tired, scared AF but always ready to take on injustice
Almost wish I was still in surgery ~ nerve blocker and general anesthesia to block this all out. For the past year, I had to listen to Trump talk about “Kung Flu” and “Chinese virus” and has used those phrases as recently as this week while at least 3,795 hate incidents occurred since the start…
Life, Love, Travel; & How Baking Saved Me
Baking is magic. Does it not seem like there’s a bit of sorcery involved when you take simple ingredients like butter, flour, salt, baking soda/powder, sugar and/or yeast and end up with so many wonderfully diverse and delicious creations? Yes, of course, it’s science and precision and part of the reason why I am drawn…
Life, Love, Travel & My Wish(es) For You (2020 version)
I have been so lucky in my life, really so often I think probably luckier than I have any right to be. This was the case when I first wrote this years ago and remains true today. So again this holiday season, it seems right that what I want is actually for you: My wish(es)…
Life, Love, Travel & Home Revamp Edition ~ Kitchen & Dining Room Renovation for under $1,000!
Well this year has not turned out the way that any of us has imagined that it would but might as well make the most out of being home, right? When it became apparent how serious this COVID-19 situation was, I realized that not only would I be home for what could be the foreseeable…
Life, Love & So It Goes (In Memoriam)
You are born. Then you die. So it goes. Born: April 29, 1924. Died: April 15, 2020. So it goes. And what can I say about this incredible man who died a couple weeks short of his 96th birthday and of his life?
Life, Love, Travel & the Pursuit of Being Vulnerable
A few days ago, I walked a short distance, rode a bike a long distance, then traveled by airboat an even longer distance through Everglade National Park and once again got blown away by the majesty of nature.
Why I Attend Pride as an Ally
So why do I go to Pride? I will never have to come out. I won’t have sleepless nights when I’m tossing and turning with the worst case scenarios playing themselves over and over in my mind. About friends that I may lose. About parents and family that may disown me. About work mates that…
Beautiful Life Beautiful World 