After San Diego we redeemed some British Airways points to fly on American Airlines from LAX to KOA (Kona, on the big island of Hawaii). This is one of the cheapest ways to get a free flight to Hawaii, at only 12.5k miles + $5 ticketing fee one-way per person from the west coast. You can transfer Chase Ultimate points to British miles or just use British miles, if you got them. Accumulating enough miles (more…)
After many months of waiting we are finally on the way! We left Nashville on a weirdly warm day December 29th but we were both looking forward to our first couple stops in sunny California and Hawaii. It is exciting to be back on the road and we are grateful for the opportunity to live in the present and make our goal of travel a reality! We will certainly miss our family and friends along (more…)
We booked a four day weekend in/out of Philadelphia since it’s an easy direct flight on the east coast tourist trail, we’ve been wanting to visit for awhile, and because we were able to time it to coincide with the Firefly music festival held at Dover downs in Dover, DE (approximately 1.5 hr from Philly). Our plan was fly in and out of PHL airport and rent a car. We would stay in between the two destinations, (more…)
Last weekend we took a quick three day trip to The Big Easy. The original plan was a couple days at the annual Jazz Festival (which has a number of classic rock and chart topping headliners as well). Turns out 1) that most of the bands we most wanted to see were the second weekend and 2) there were forecasted thunderstorms every evening of our visit, which would prove to turn the festival grounds into (more…)
During the middle of our Puerto Rico trip (the rest of which is in the blog post here), we hopped a cheap ferry for $2/each out to the small island of Vieques for 4 very restful nights. The island is really small – about 21 miles by 4 miles – and has a laid-back Caribbean vibe and some of the most stunning beaches we have seen in all our travels. We stayed in an apartment (more…)
Three wonderful years of marriage have come and gone for us! We feel so thankful to be able to share our lives with each and to travel and see all of God’s great creation! To celebrate 3 years, we hopped onto one of the recently opened Southwest flights to San Juan that the company acquired during the AirTran merger. It’s hard to leave Nashville this time of year since mid-April is usually the peak of (more…)
Our home city of Nashville is white-hot at the moment, and has recently been topping the charts of best cities to live, visit, move to, etc in the nation. While all that is great (and certainly helps our property value), it has honestly started to become a little too touristy and crowded in places. Therefore, I put together this carefully crafted list of our local favorites where you won’t end up in long lines, have (more…)
We were fortunate enough to first Florida twice this winter, and it was a welcome change in climate from the cold and sometimes grey skies of middle TN. Even better, we have Nicole and Jose to hangout and stay with whenever we visit! What’s great too is that there are direct flights on SW from Nashville, so we got roundtrip direct flights for roughly 18k and 23k, saving us $600 and $750, respectively! Cindy, Terry (more…)
We just got back from a wonderfully long Labor Day weekend with Elisa’s family in upstate New York. The trip started out well with free flights (thanks to our Southwest Companion Pass!) into Rochester, NY. It was an hour’s drive from there to Syracuse but it saved us approximately $700 and Cindy was nice enough to shuttle us back and forth (thanks Cindy!). Our first activity was a Cheaptrick/Journey concert at the New York state Fair, (more…)
For our anniversary this year, we picked DC to visit. It’s been awhile for both of us sent we last visited, so we took a full week to soak up everything and still relax a bit. The timing was meant to coincide also with the peak of cherry blossoms, and it turned out to be just perfect. The blooms were all over but so were the crowds. We went down to the tidal basin late (more…)