Miles For Family

Some of you may remember how I recently booked Southwest flights for my in-laws’ cruise from Puerto Rico. Unfortunately, the return flight will occur during peak period, so the tickets were quite expensive. Flying to San Juan would cost only 6,000 points per person, but San Juan-Tampa portion was running at 16,600 points. Quite a […]

One or more of these credit card offers may no longer be available. See our Hot Deals page for the latest offers. My family just got back from a 12-day trip to California and Colorado that involved trains, planes, Ubers, streetcars, cable cars and buses. It was exhausting, and I’m so glad to be back […]

Last week I’ve mentioned that Amex has added some pretty strong verbiage to their “T and C” on credit card applications.  I don’t have any problem with banks trying to make money. They are a business, after all. Admittedly, me and Amex have not been on “simpatico” terms for a while. If you are a new […]

My family just returned from a 7-night Alaskan cruise aboard the Disney Wonder with 5 nights in Vancouver tacked on to the beginning of our vacation. The only way to keep me from being sad about our trip being over is to write about it in detail to re-live the memories. In case you missed […]

Warning! If you don’t have kids, you may be grossed out by some of the things mentioned in this post. If you have kids, you will probably still get grossed out. The year was 2009. My brother-in-law was set to get married in Pennsylvania and asked my husband to be his best man. Our first baby […]