A Travel Blog
After 7 full days in the car on our road trip from Portland to Yellowstone and a number of places in between, I feel like I’m a road trip expert. This trip was really different for us than our usual travels and it definitely took some getting used to. And… Read more
US National Parks are a very underestimated part of travel in the USA in my opinion. While many people that spend a lot of time outdoors might head to National Parks regularly, many people who come to the US tend to head to cities like LA or New York and… Read more
We are headed off tomorrow for an epic road trip eventually leading us to Yellowstone National Park! Though we’re also making a number of stops before getting there, like finally seeing the Palouse in Eastern Washington and spending a couple days in Glacier National Park and Kalispell, Montana. This is… Read more
Nick and I have done a couple trips recently with family as we’ve traveled to Washington DC and most recently to Reno, Nevada for family events. And while we’ve done larger family trips in the past like when we traveled to Europe with Nick’s parents and grandma, these smaller quick… Read more
During our trip to DC we were driving out to Lexington, Virginia on Saturday for a family wedding. We had booked to stay at a little boutique hotel in downtown Lexington about 7 months prior to the wedding through Hotels.com. Friday while we were still in DC, I got a… Read more
We recently had an unfortunate incident at our hotel in Alexandria (The Alexandrian) on our recent trip to the DC area and while we’ve stayed in hundreds of hotels around the world, this issue was our first of the kind. Long story short, we arrived back at the hotel around… Read more
For part of our trip through Germany and Austria, we rented a car in Munich and drove down into Austria including stops in Innsbruck, Hallstatt and Salzburg. Driving on the Autobahn in Germany and roads in Austria can be daunting, so here’s my best travel tips for driving in Germany… Read more
In the past year, I’ve gotten more serious about picking hotels that belong to one loyalty account when we travel. I still prefer boutique hotels, but the more extensively we travel, that’s not always an option. It’s easier in Europe and larger cities in the US to stick with boutique… Read more
We’ve all been on flights next to someone sick or sick ourselves and I’ll tell you from experience, there isn’t much that’s more uncomfortable than flying sick. It’s miserable to put it bluntly. But if you have to get from point A to point B, there often isn’t much of… Read more
One of the ways we’re able to travel as much as we do is because we take full advantage of airline miles and points. Over the years of traveling, we’ve become experts on how to save money and use points and miles instead of cash when it comes to travel… Read more
Tokyo is really organized and for a large city, it’s super easy to get around anywhere you need to go. We remarked many times while exploring Tokyo how easy it was to traverse the city and how organized it is – so if you’re heading to Japan’s famous metropolis, here’s… Read more
Our visit to the Great Wall of China was undoubtedly one of the most amazing travel experiences I’ve ever had and I’ll never forget it, though there are some important items to note when planning your visit there. To make it as easy as possible, here are my best tips… Read more
We are preparing to head to Japan and China tomorrow so I was packing recently for the trip. As I’ve mentioned a few times before, we most travel carry-on only and as a lot of people always have questions for me on how to do that, I thought instead of… Read more
I hear a lot from people, “I don’t know how you travel so often!” Most of the time people are referring to the actual act of travel, airports, long haul flights, the exhaustion, the time it takes, etc. For some reason (well actually, we know the reasons) people hate the… Read more
I book a lot of award travel, using points and mileage to purchase travel all around the world for insanely low personal cost to me. But I find, when talking to people in my life, they are always unsure in this arena of travel and always remark that they don’t… Read more
