Pittsburgh Travel Hackers

Do you have a  “group-text” trip in your family or group of friends? A trip that you talk  about taking one day, that  maybe has been kicked down the lane towards some “someday” date? In my family we have France, and what I can’t believe is that right now I am sitting in JFK airport…

Picture this: you’re flying home from a spring break trip to a mountain National Park. You knew there’d be snow, but you were not expecting 3 feet! You’re sad about your trip being over, so of course you start yammering to your husband about where to go over spring break next year. He loves that.…

If you start poking around on the internet on blogs and Facebook groups you’ll start to see “what’s your 5/24” come up a lot. This is a rule specific to all Chase cards. Essentially, Chase will not approve you if you have opened five or more personal credit cards in the past 24 months. Most…

Here’s another reason why I love credit card points. Eight months ago I didn’t even know I wanted to go to Puerto Rico, and now here I am, having just returned from a great little trip with the family. Ok, that’s maybe only half true. Puerto Rico had been on my mile-long list of places…

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: one of the things we’ve loved most about points and miles is that it helps us save significant money on trips we would have typically paid cash for to begin with. So, it’s not just about the dream trips to Hawaii and Europe, it’s also the…

Isn’t she lovely? When I was in first grade, I “published” a book about going to Disney World. Even though we had never been, I wrote and illustrated a vivid tale about our family’s trip, which may have involved winning the lottery in order to be able to go. Even as a first grader, I…

A few months ago, I kept seeing this same-ish Instagram reel (old person Tik-Tok) that showed a bunch of beautiful views and then instructed scrollers like me to just, “take the trip.” I have to admit, it annoyed me a little when I first saw it. Of course I want to “take the trip,” but…

This is Tom’s continuation of his series wherein he is pretending he is just starting out in miles and points… So, I’m back from my Chase in-branch appointment and was approved for the Sapphire Preferred Card! I added Melissa as an authorized user so that we can eventually transfer Chase Ultimate Rewards (UR) to either…

Our family loves DC. That’s it. That’s basically the post. Ok, there’s more. My mom just hit a milestone birthday, and we decided to meet up for a party at my aunt’s house, which is right outside of Our Nation’s Capital. Naturally, the kids were stoked to cram a little Chinatown and Smithsonian time into…

When I was in my twenties, I visited Rocky Mountain National Park a couple of times and was captivated by the Western mountains. An East-Coaster my whole life, I hadn’t ever seen big, rocky mountains like those, and those couple of road trips out West stick out as inspirational and vastly different than anything I…