Think the Office Will Fall Apart in Your Absence? A Lunch Break Will Make You Think Again Working around the clock is common these days. Late hours, emails from bed at 10 p.m., and lunch at desks is often normal. This working around the clock mentality has become so common in America that many workers [...]
Travel Balance Tips
A Couple Conflict Over the Inca Trail – Should We Axe It? If you’ve been following me on this blog or on Twitter for awhile, you may have noticed I have an obsession with going to Machu Picchu. It’s been at the top of my bucket list for years. When people ask when I’m having [...]
I’m spending Valentine’s Day this year at my grandparent’s farm in eastern Montana. Though I miss my honey who’s back working and going to school in San Diego, I can’t think of a better place to celebrate the day of love than at my grandparent’s home (if you believe that Valentine’s Day is about love [...]
Couple Travel: How to Cope When One of You Gets Vacation Burn Out I have a small confession to make. It had been quite a while since either Tom or I had done a long road trip and we packed a bit too much into our recent trip to New Zealand. Well, it wasn’t ENTIRELY [...]
All my bags are packed, I’m ready to go… The day has finally arrived. I can hardly believe it. And thank goodness the world didn’t end yesterday. I would have been very mad if it had ended right before I went to… New Zealand! Yup, our bags are packed, the house sitter is coming, and [...]
One Day in St. Maarten, This Happened… St. Maarten Taxi Ride: A taxi driver ends up being a highlight of my day on the island I sit down with a sigh on the beach. It’s 9am in the morning and I got off the cruise ship…quick check of my watch…35 minutes ago. And I’m already [...]
Chicago is a great place for a girls getaway and there are a multitude of day and night activities to entertain you and your best girlfriends during a Chicago girls weekend. There are 5 main components of a Chicago girls weekend that I recommend you take part in to ensure a fun and memorable time. [...]
Love and Travel: The story of how Tom and I met and bonded over travel I was perusing Facebook last night and came across a friend whose status update was this: “I want to travel the world and marry a man who will travel it with me.” Aw, love and travel. The two fit together [...]
A standard vacation length for most people working in America is one week – 5 lowly days off. Even with these days sandwiched in between two weekends, that amount of time make it hard to go see that far off destination you’ve been dreaming of. Two days of that are used up just flying to [...]
I'm a travel marketer and travel writer. My husband, Tom, is getting his MBA and never stops studying. We have two cats. We have a mortgage. We have a passion for traveling. We have limited vacation time and funds.
Our friends and family wonder how we travel so much.
Here's how I balance it all and maximize travel time and getting the most out of a destination when time is short.
Airport First Class Lounge: My First Experience
by Gina on April 11, 2013 · 0 comments
For our honeymoon, Tom and I splurged our miles on getting first class seats. It wasn’t my first time flying first-class, but it was my first time knowing I was going to (all the times before had been a last-minute upgrade thanks to frequent flier status). Therefore, I was just as excited about the first [...]