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Thank you to Jordan Bradford from The Solo Life for this guest post. My most recent trip in which I used credit card rewards points was to Denver, Colorado for a long weekend trip with my sister. I usually travel solo these days, but I love a girls’ trip just as […]

Using Points and Miles For Cheap Round Trip Flights to ...

This entry was posted in Travel Hacking on October 27, 2019 by LeAnna Brown

[This post may contain affiliate links. We’ll use the mere pennies we earn from these links to help maintain the EE site so that we can continue to bring you awesome travel tips and info] After racking up over 4 million points and miles between Mr. EE and I, we’ve […]

Free Flights For FOUR (yes 4!) Years: The Southwest Companion ...

This entry was posted in North America Travel Hacking Travel Tips on March 3, 2017 by LeAnna Brown

5 Travel Hacking Tools that will help you redeem your miles — Congratulations! You’ve done what a lot of people are too scared to do. You learned what travel hacking was, trusted that using credit cards to earn you free travel won’t wreck your score (just the opposite actually!), pulled the trigger on getting a card, met your minimum spending and now […]

Redeem Points and Miles: 5 Resources and Tools To Help ...

This entry was posted in Travel Hacking Travel Tips on August 9, 2016 by LeAnna Brown

These are brilliant hacks to even the travel hackers! So many great ways to learn to redeem your points to get the most out of each mile — 5 Unsuspecting Ways to Use FlyerMiler to Up Your Travel Hacking Skills C’Mon, you know you want to Pin This to be able to use for later when you are booking for free trips on points! Today is shameless plug day. What? You’ve never heard about this day? Yeah, it’s […]

Learn How to Use Your Frequent Flyer Miles with This ...

This entry was posted in Travel Hacking Travel Tips on August 5, 2016 by LeAnna Brown

There is no reason why you can't combine both budget travel and travel hacking to get the cheapest travel everything and everywhere — Combining Budget Travel and Travel Hacking {This post may contain affiliate links. We’ll use the mere pennies from your support to help us pay for our next hostel when not using points and miles to travel!} The allure of luxury travel. I get it. I mean, who doesn’t want to […]

Budget Travel meets Travel Hacking: Getting the cheapest trips possible ...

This entry was posted in Travel Hacking Travel Tips on July 30, 2016 by LeAnna Brown

This is amazing! You can book roundtrip tickets with points and go to so many more locations than just points A-B-A!!! — 2 Months 9 Countries 23 Cities 28 Legs of Flight 1 Carry On Backpack 2 Pairs of Underwear And Less Than $1500 Per Person in Flights All because we knew how to maximize our miles and points You might be wondering “How the heck did you manage that?” Well, it’s […]

How To Maximize Your Miles and Points Like a Pro

This entry was posted in Travel Hacking Travel Tips on July 21, 2016 by LeAnna Brown