Miles For Family

See our Advertiser Disclosure and Editorial Note here. As of last week, my husband and I are 100% debt free. We made our final mortgage payment, and we have zero debt. It feels fantastic! We lived in our first house for 6 years and our current house for 11 years. That’s 17 years of mortgage payments! […]

Travel news from around the web: Masks are Back at Disney Parks: As of today, face masks are now required indoors again at Disney World and Disneyland. See this post from TPG. When my family visited Disney World in late May, masks were still required. Disney followed the CDC recommendations to allow vaccinated to be […]

See our Advertiser Disclosure and Editorial Note here. Leana’s post a few weeks ago about how she is using up her remaining hotel certificates reminded me that I still have one to use before the end of the year. I got an additional free night certificate last year from Hyatt for staying in five different Hyatt […]

See our Advertiser Disclosure and Editorial Note here. After a bit of a dry spell with credit cards during 2020, I’m back on track to earning even more miles and points for travel. My husband and I just finished the minimum spending on our two new cards from earlier this summer. So, I started exploring my options […]

See our Advertiser Disclosure and Editorial Note here. As the famous ancient Greek historian Herodotus said: “Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.” This phrase certainly applies to our pandemic-travel era. Things change constantly, so it’s impossible to predict which countries will or won’t even be open to visitors next summer. I don’t think there […]

See our Advertiser Disclosure and Editorial Note here. Out of all credit card issuers, I hate dealing with Bank of America the most. Their website just isn’t user-friendly for an IT simpleton like myself. For example, I still haven’t figured out how to set up an AutoPay. But my biggest pet peeve was having to call […]