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FT4RL 3 archives
Part one: Meet the Speakers, Apr. 23, 2015 I’m thrilled to announce that the speakers for FT4RL are in place! (Drum Roll please) Trevor from Tagging Miles and Kenny from Miles4More on Creative Ways to Earn Miles and Points Dan from Points With a Crew on Panning for Gold in Category 1: Hotel Tips, Tricks, and Steals Phil from Miles Abound on getting the most out of your miles Richard Kerr, frequent contributor on The Points Guy, on Asian Destinations…
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FT4RL 2 archives
Part one: “Family Travel for Real Life” Worked! Time to plan #FT4RL 2… Travel with kids is not only possible, but necessary. By sharing the world with our children, we expand both their minds and our own, creating a lifetime’s worth of wonder that can come no other way. I’m happy to report FT4RL went better than I could have imagined. The speakers brought incredibly diverse experiences to the table from chicken buses in Guatemala to (gah!) first class to…
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4 mistakes I made on the Eurostar so you don’t have to
If you’re considering a trip on the Eurostar train, I hope this post helps you sidestep my mistakes. The Eurostar was Deal Kid’s specific request for Camp Mom and after our other European train adventures I felt pretty sure what to expect when I arrived at Gare de Nord in Paris 30 minutes before departure. Mais non, mon frere! I assumed the Eurostar was like any other European train. It most certainly is NOT. Here’s a list of the mistaken…
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“The Real World” and The Real World
Most milestones for me and Deal Dad go by with a yawn-it’s just the way of the real world with two busy lives and two kids. However, June 26, 1992-the day we met, is special, and we try to at least stop for a moment and recognize how different out lives would have been had it not been for the French Embassy and MTV’s The Real World. Let me take you in the wayback machine 21 years ago to that…
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Lessons learned from remodeling
Week 1: On Hoarders and Kidney Sales Dec. 8, 2016 You begin any project, be it planning a trip or gutting a kitchen, wide eyed and hopeful. After a week I’m beginning to realize how frighteningly naive our assumptions going in were. Let’s discuss, shall we? You don’t realize you (and your spouse, and your kids) are hoarders until you have to box up your crap. Last Saturday the charity truck picked up over 200 pounds of stuff from our…