Quick Read: A Day Trip to Olhão

The backstreets of Olhão. As mentioned in my last post about what to do in Faro for 2-3 days, I suggested taking a quick and easy train ride over to the water-side town of Olhão. Arriving beside the courthouse, you take a walk through the town until you pop out by a Continente grocery store …

The 5 Day, 5 Things Minimalist Challenge

I've always considered myself a semi-minimalist. I'm very rarely tempted to buy things and my collection of material goods isn't very vast. I probably spend less than $150 on new clothes every year. That being said, I don't have a completely empty apartment either, with nothing but floor space and sleek, sharp-angled furniture. I'm somewhere …

QUICK READ: Where To Find Your American Airlines’ Trip Credit

If you remember back to early May, 2021, I had to make the hard decision of cancelling our trip to Costa Rica and reroute to Tulum. I was fairly happy at the time, as we were getting a few hundred dollars back in trip credits because American Airlines (AA) was offering no-change fees at the …

QUICK READ: Flying With American Airlines During COVID-19

The Cancun Hotel Zone It's been a long time coming. My last flight was in March of 2020, coming back to Maryland from a trip to New Orleans right before the world started to close down and I've been itching to get back in the skies ever since. That opportunity came when we booked our …

QUICK READ: Getting Through TSA During Covid

We woke up to the second delay of our flight, bumping it back now to two hours after our initial takeoff time. That’s no big deal, as we had a long enough layover between flight legs to accommodate, but it would have been nice to get those two extra hours of sleep. Flying out of …

QUICK READ: Costa Rica Locks Down Central Valley

Less than a week before we fly out to Costa Rica, the country has implemented a lockdown of non-essential businesses in the central valley (the area around the capital city of San Jose) due to a rise in COVID-19 cases. Luckily for us, none of our destinations have been affected and are not labeled as …

QUICK READ: Driving from Maryland to Charlotte, NC.

For a quick weekend trip, we went down to visit some friends in Charlotte - it's about a 6.5 hour drive from west-central Maryland where we live. The drive is mostly along one of my least favorite highways, I-81, but it wasn't too bad for the way down. Starting from Frederick, MD, I can either …

QUICK READ: Delta Is Unblocking the Middle Seat, Lower Prices Ahead

I don't keep many notifications turned on for my phone. Between a group chat for work already blowing me up and my desire to limit phone usage, I try not to create reasons to check my phone with dopamine-inducing *dings.* One app I do have notifications on for is Hopper - an easy-to-use, flight and …