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Sundance & Bay Area Trip recap
I spent the last week of my winter break visiting some homies in my old stomping grounds (aka Northern California) and attending the Sundance Film Festival in Utah (a life long goal). I gave myself a $500 spending budget for the week and I spent $514 so I am very proud of myself for sticking…
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A travel year in review (2024)
I spent $13,000 plus 304,800 miles on travel in 2024. I saved about $3,048 by using miles (which I earned since 2022 from travel hacking) to cover some of the flights I booked throughout the year. My two words to summarize this year for me were change and unseriousness. Hey Siri, play “Night Changes” by…
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Solo in Seoul (Part 2)
Wassup homies! In this post, I am gonna talk about the surprises and lessons I learned from my 2 week trip to South Korea. First, I’ll share surprises: Smoking: I didn’t know there was a heavy smoking culture here. I went to a club in Hongdae and left with all my clothes and hair smelling…
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Solo in Seoul (Part 1)
I just got back from a 2 week solo trip to South Korea. I’m so sad writing this because I had an amazing time & I can’t believe it’s over. During my visit, I stayed in 2 neighborhoods in Seoul (Itaewon & Gangnam), Jeju City & Incheon. In my first 5 days, I stayed in…
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A pity party in Mexico
TL;DR I spent $1742 in Mexico & I have a few regrets. I am writing this straight from the balcony of my Airbnb with amazing views of the ocean, living my blogger girl dreams. First of all, I want to start this blog by saying that my trip to Mexico was absolutely fabulous. I stayed…
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Disaster Day in Atlanta
I mentioned that I was visiting Atlanta for a conference in my last post – Tea at the Park. Boy oh boy did plans change. I arrived at 11am on a Saturday and we learned that there was a city wide issue.There was no water. Like, at all. Unfortunately, there was a major main break…
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Tea at the park
It’s been 4 weeks since I quit my job. Why is time moving so quickly now that I have no job? In the past week, I came from an intensive conference in Washington, DC to prepare for b-school. It was the MLT Professional Development (PD) conference. I had an interview for an internship which was…
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Travel hacking has affected my credit score!
With all my travel hacking from last year, I wanted to give an update on how my credit score is doing. I recently closed my Barclay American Airline Aviator Mastercard. I wrote about it here. It gave me 50,000 AA points after I made 1 purchase last year. It was the easiest card I’ve hacked.…
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Let’s not be so serious
Two days ago, I decided to book a flight to Canada for next week on a whim. I miss my friends. This is probably the most spontaneous I’ve ever been. I said fuck the budget. I don’t think I have enough vacation and the flight was expensive but I really said fuck it, let’s go.…
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Chase United Explorer card
Second credit card review! For those new to the blog, in 2023, I opened 6 credit cards and saved over $4000 on 6 trips through travel hacking this year (Pittsburg, Boston, Canada, North Carolina, Japan & Nigeria). This card is part of the Chase Gauntlet. Here are some other cards in this gauntlet. I had…
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