Well we wrapped up our three-week workcation in New Orleans last month before Thanksgiving and had a great time. Unlike Myrtle Beach, we didn’t venture to surrounding cities — we spent the entire time in New Orleans. We stayed in a 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom condo about two blocks southwest Read more…
Well as we all know, we’re in the middle of a pandemic, which is really cramping our normal travel plans. We’ve had to cancel three trips that were previously planned and another one we optimistically scheduled in the middle of the summer. We ended up sending our kids to some Read more…
Yet another story about finding a cheap flight that we just couldn’t pass up. This was our best deal yet — the newsletter came into my inbox and I just knew immediately we had to make it work. The flight was $1 plus $286 in taxes. I have no idea Read more…
A few years ago we started taking a trip over Thanksgiving because we only have to use a few vacation days for a full-week trip. This year we didn’t know where we wanted to go until we decided to make it a “catch up” trip, meaning to close the country Read more…
So we had always imagined taking 2-3 weeks and doing Australia and New Zealand in one big trip, mainly because of cost and time to get there. Well, we came across an amazing deal (as a lot of our trip stories begin) and couldn’t pass it up even though we Read more…
For Spring Break this year, we didn’t have anywhere in mind, and it was going to be shorter than usual because Jaime had to work on that Monday. We used the great open-ended searching of Google Flights and landed on Ecuador because it was the cheapest international flight outside of Read more…
This trip started like many of our trips do — by finding a deal we couldn’t pass up. I visited Prague as part of a backpacking trip in college and loved it. As soon as we saw a deal for flights and hotel for $500, we just picked a weekend Read more…
We don’t usually travel far for Thanksgiving, but with Lydia in public school now where she gets off the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, we knew we had to plan a trip! Jaime’s dad loves visiting Paris so that came up as an early front-runner. We wanted to ride the Chunnel (train Read more…
Before I jump into our most recent trip, I realized that I skipped one. Over the holidays we went to Vancouver, Portland, and Seattle. We spent Christmas in Vancouver, which was new to us, and we loved how close it was to the mountains. We did a fair amount of Read more…
This trip was a bit less planned, at least strategically, than our usual trips. Â It all started with a flight alert I received for round trip to Copenhagen for $450. Â We had to jump on it but rather than end back up in Copenhagen, we decided to search for return Read more…