Last month Jess and I left Baby M at home with her grandparents and took a week long trip to Bora Bora to celebrate our five year anniversary. Due to our anxiety about leaving the baby for too long, we ended up postponing our flights by a day (you can change award ticket dates for free on AA). This was great for our family but made for an annoying routing that was compounded by some bad weather – leading to some stress on the domestic legs! I wanted to share some thoughts since it was my first time flying cross country on US Airways in domestic first and also my first taste of the new Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX.
Credit Card Application Strategy: What Credit Card Should I Get?
The question that I hear the most in life is “Why didn’t you shave?” But when I’m not speaking with my wife, the question I hear the SECOND most is “What credit card should I get?” It’s a pretty complicated question that leads to a whole other set of questions – today I’m going to talk about the things you should be asking yourself when you’re trying to choose a credit card to apply for. As always, don’t bother applying for a credit card in an effort to reap rewards if you can’t pay your bill off in full monthly. You’ll just lose yourself money in the long run because interest charges won’t be worth any rewards you own. Anyway, on to the post.
Babyless in Bora Bora – Preparing to Travel Without the Baby
Jess and I spent one week in Bora Bora celebrating our 5 year anniversary. It was an amazing trip – and we got to really relax because Baby M stayed at home with her grandparents. Still, I’d argue it was more stressful preparing to travel without her than with her. For any parents considering traveling without their infant, I thought I’d put together some of the things we did to prepare Baby M, her guardians, and ourselves before we left. Hopefully it’s helpful to some of you out there!
The DIY Guide to Booking Award Tickets – Part V: Using united.com to search for Star Alliance Award Space
People have different opinions when it comes to booking award tickets with frequent flyer miles. I, for one, love booking award tickets and enjoy the challenge that comes with doing so. Booking award tickets are like puzzles to me and I love solving them. Other people hate booking award tickets, consider them too much of a hassle, or even go so far as to believing their frequent flyer miles are completely worthless. I’ve decided to put a guide together for those of you who fall in between – people who want to book award tickets themselves but feel like they need some pointers. This guide will assume some basic knowledge, namely, that you know how to log in to your frequent flyer account and check your mileage balance. Other than that, the guide is here to help you through the process – hope you find it useful! Feel free to refer to the index at the bottom of the page for other entries.
In Part V, we’ll take a look at the best ways to search for Star Alliance space. Star Alliance is composed of over 20 airlines, so it’s important to be able to search all these airlines for award space as efficiently as possible – there are so many options! Star Alliance carriers also have some of the most useful online award searching tools. This post will help you learn how to use united.com which is fairly easy to use but not completely comprehensive,. In the next post we will look at using the ANA search tool which is quite comprehensive but tougher to use.
Babyless in Bora Bora – Introduction and Planning
One year ago, we were waking up every 3-4 hours with a newborn baby in the house. One week ago, we were jumping off the deck attached to our overwater bungalow in Bora Bora while grandparents were watching our one year old. Believe it or not, situation one was integral in enabling situation two to happen. Jess and I spent a week in Bora Bora over President’s week – here’s how we made it happen.
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