Did you know that you can earn points and miles every time use the ridesharing service Lyft?
It couldn’t be easier to be on your way towards free travel. We will show you how.
Earn Points and Miles with Lyft
Having a Travel Goal or List
“The opposite of a great truth is also true.” — Gretchen Rubin
Last week, I talked about the pitfalls of competitive travel and letting your travel decisions be driven by a checklist, selecting destinations you aren’t passionate about simply to say you have been there. I still believe everything I said there is true. Except when it isn’t. (See that? “The opposite of a great truth is also true.”)
Let’s look at why having a travel goal or list can be useful!
How Many Countries Have You Been to? And Does It Even Matter?
In the world of travel, there is a relatively small group of competitive travelers seeking to set records. Who can beat out the youngest person to have visited every country in the world? Who will be the first African American solo female traveler to do so? The joy seems to lie in collecting the passport stamp and checking another country off their list.
What does their influence mean for the rest of us? Does it even matter how many countries you visit?
Image by Stefan Schweihofer from Pixabay.
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Air Travel & Service Animals
Warning: This post contains adorable puppy photos!
We here at The Trip Takes Us love all things travel-related, so we recently accompanied a service dog in training on a familiarization trip to Washington Reagan National Airport (DCA) for his first exposure to all the craziness an airport has to offer.
Come meet Hero Dogs Captain as he explores this new environment and find out what we learned!
Never Lose Your Hard-Earned Points Again!
How to Prevent Your Frequent Flier Miles from Expiring (Without Setting Foot on a Plane)
One common complaint about frequent flier miles is that, if you do not fly enough, they can expire before you have the opportunity to redeem them. It is indeed frustrating to diligently credit flights to your account only to find that, after a certain period of inactivity, those miles have disappeared.
Here are easy ways to not only prevent miles from expiring, but also to earn a few extra in the process. If you protect your points, soon you could be sitting pretty here!
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Ask a Pilot — Rene Answers Reader Questions
This week on Ask a Pilot, pilot Rene answers questions submitted by our readers (you!):
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Death in the Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon National Park is a place of immense beauty on an almost incomprehensible scale. For good reason, it is considered one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. People come from around the globe to see this divine abyss with their own eyes. Too many forget, however, that national parks are not Disney World. They feature Mother Nature, often at her cruelest.
Just this morning, a 70-year old visitor to the Grand Canyon fell to her death–the FOURTH such falling death in the Canyon in the past month.
Based on the foolish behavior we witnessed at the Grand Canyon last week, it is almost surprising that such tragic deaths are not even more frequent. You will not believe what we saw!
Penguin Palooza
Family-friendly Penguin Encounter
Penguin mania is about to hit the country with the Earth Day release of Disneynature’s new documentary, “Penguins”. However, penguin mania has been a constant state of affairs at our house for about 11 years now. My youngest son has always had a thing for penguins, so over the years we have sought out ways to have penguin encounters in the U.S. Here is one of our favorites that is sure to please kids of all ages.
Ask a Pilot! — Crew Pet Peeves
This week in our Ask a Pilot series, pilot Rene tells us what airline crews wish passengers would and would NOT do. Are you guilty of committing any of their pet peeves?
The fire at Notre Dame teaches me a lesson I must learn over and over
Ancestry DNA tells me that I am 100% of French descent. This matches everything I know about my family history. I have vivid memories of being home with the chicken pox in the fourth grade, trying to teach myself French from the books in our home (my father spoke French before English, and my mother went to school half the day in English and half in French). I eventually became fluent in French and spent one glorious year living in French Alps. I am not French, but France is a part of me.
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