The musings of a traveling couple

This trip began as they almost always do — an airfare deal that seemed too good to pass up. This time it was $450 for roundtrip from Chicago to Stockholm. We booked it quickly before the deal was gone and Read more

We’ve been itching to travel internationally since the start of COVID, having planned and begrudgingly canceled at least five other trips abroad in the last two years. While restrictions are loosening up, our vaccination cards aren’t approved for travel in Read more

For the holidays last month, we were planning to go to Memphis for my in-laws 50th anniversary, and then stay down there through Christmas. Upon our return to Chicago, we scored super cheap tickets to Tokyo over New Years and Read more

After our summer workcation to Colorado and Utah where we visited three National Parks, we became obsessed with seeking out more parks to visit. Our obsession came at a great time too because our oldest daughter just entered 4th grade Read more

As long-term readers know, we go to Maine to visit relatives every other year. We were afraid covid would get in the way of this trip as it had so many others, but luckily everything went according to plan. In Read more

We had so much fun on our workcations last fall that we had started to discuss if we should do it again this summer. I have been considering a month-long workcation over each summer even before covid because the cost Read more

Like most people, we were itching for a real vacation. We can’t really travel much internationally, so we’ve been watching out for domestic airfare deals. One day we see roundtrip, nonstop flights to Honolulu for $198 (normally $800+ with stops) Read more

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 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 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 Read more