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Visiting Yosemite on Points and Miles
Last month we pulled off a really fun five night adventure to Yosemite National Park. Even though Yosemite has been one of the top places we’ve wanted to visit for years, we kept over-analyzing when the best time to go would be. Peak summer: too hot and not enough waterfall flow. Late May: perfect waterfalls…
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A Tale of Two Lounge Access Plans
When we first started using more points and miles, I didn’t want to hear about airport lounges and other perks that certain cards came with. It just sounded like too many details on top of an already heavily-detailed game we were getting used to playing. But then I had my first sip of free champagne,…
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Cinque Terre and French Riviera with Points and Miles
The year was 2021. My sisters and I were hatching fledgling plans about going to France with our mom. As we discussed the scope of the trip, one of my sisters suggested we make it more involved and bring our spouses and kids. I said, and I quote, “We will NOT be bringing our kids…
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Ranking the Lounges in JFK Terminal One
I recently spent a long, long time in JFK airport. I had a flight to Europe booked, and was really nervous about something going wrong with my positioning flight from Pittsburgh, so I gave myself 9 hours between arrival to JFK and departure to Paris. Quel ennui! I actually ended up having a really fun…
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Paris on Points and Miles!
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…
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Arches and Canyonlands on Points
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.…
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What is 5/24?
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…
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Puerto Rico on Points
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…
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New York City on Points and Miles
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…
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Disney on Points and Miles
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…
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