Travel entry:April 2025 Hey Reader, I hope you and your family are out enjoying the beautiful weather, blooming flowers and meaningful holidays of the season. After our amazing spring break trip to Costa Rica this year, we're having a hard time deciding where to head next year. If you have any suggestions for where to go next March with our tween and teen, I'm all ears! Do you have a special bucket list destination you're ready to plan? I know that we have so many amazing places in mind but...

Travel entry:April 2025 Hey Reader, Sometimes you learn something new and it really is life-changing. It's no exaggeration that learning how to use points and miles more effectively for free travel has deeply impacted our lifestyle. We don't have an unlimited budget, but we've been able to travel basically whenever we want (respecting school/work schedules) because we mostly don't have to pay for it now. My husband told me last week that he wants to see his favorite baseball team when they're...

Travel entry:April 2025 Hey Reader, You know we love a good travel adventure—but this one was not on our bucket list! Last month we were cruising towards Costa Rica, dreaming of beaches and sloths, when suddenly… our plane circled the Cayman Islands for an hour and then turned around mid-flight. Yep. Thanks to a ground radar outage in Honduras, Southwest had to divert us all the way back to the U.S.! Instead of waking up in Manuel Antonio National Park, ready to explore the jungle, we spent...