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 2019, we invited a close friend on the trip, and 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 of two summer camps is quite expensive. A friend and 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) and jumped on it! Since we love visiting new countries 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 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…