2022 has been a rough year for us as a family so we were very much looking forward to our yearly spring travels. This year we decided to go to the Netherlands to finally see the famous tulip fields (spoiler alert: they are amazing). And while our original plan was …
I’ve been quiet for the past few months because I’ve just not been in the mood to write on this blog. While I mentioned that I had gotten COVID in the last post and that it seemed like my family was making a swift recovery, things took a tragic and …
Happy 2022 to all my readers. Sorry for the delay in writing about anything for the past month. Work got the best of me and COVID finally caught up with me after two years of being super careful. Inevitable I suppose when you and your family work at healthcare facilities …
I’ve lived in Texas for about 20 years now (five of those years were in the Metroplex), but never have I considered Forth Worth as a destination ‘worth’ visiting. Part of it is because I live over here in Dallas and Fort Worth is 40 miles away (more than an hour’s …
Background: After about 2.5 years of virtually no stays at Marriott Hotels (or many chain hotels for that matter), the annual free nights I get from my holding various versions of the Marriott credit cards really started adding up and inadvertently expiring. Most of these nights would’ve expired in 2020 …
As I said the Hyatt House Beaverton is located down the street from the Beaverton Central MAX Rail Station. It was a beautiful day in Portland so I decided to head out to the International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park. A day (24 hour) pass on the Metro costs …
I checked into the Hyatt House Portland/Beaverton for my last night up in the Pacific Northwest. The Hyatt House Beaverton is a brand new category 2 Hyatt property and costs 8,000 points for a free night. The hotel was inaugurated back in February and is one of the most ideally …
After checking in to the Hyatt House, my sister and I headed out for some lunch and a roam around the city on this Monday afternoon.
I booked the Hyatt House Seattle/Downtown using my annual Hyatt free night certificate for 1 night. The hotel is a category 4 and normally costs 15,000 points per night.
My sister graduated college back in May (both masters and undergrad) and wanted to go on a road trip out in the Pacific Northwest for her graduation trip. It seemed like a good time to make a trip because travel hadn’t totally restarted yet and flights were still fairly empty …
