Strategies and insights on using points and travel rewards to book flights and hotels.
Two years ago, I finally realized that if our family trip to Japan was ever going to happen, I needed to stop vaguely collecting points for it and start figuring out how we were actually going to get there. There would be four of us traveling together, and my original wish list wasn’t exactly modest:…
Lima’s Pacific coastline from Miraflores, the starting point for exploring how far 100,000 points can take you in Peru. About This Series Booking your first long-haul award flight can feel intimidating. A weekend getaway is one thing. Crossing an ocean with points is another. This series explores realistic ways to reach destinations around the world…
San Salvador’s historic center makes an easy starting point for a long weekend in El Salvador. About This Series Stop saving points. Start taking trips. Welcome to 100,000 Points: Weekend Edition, where I use roughly 100,000 transferable points to plan international getaways you can actually book. In each post, I’ll show you how I’d get…
Five weeks. Five countries. One backpack. One carry-on suitcase and an overstuffed backpack. When I started planning my first solo trip, I knew I wanted to make the most of the opportunity. Rather than spending a week in a single destination, I built an itinerary that took me from the streets of Buenos Aires to…
Returning to Machu Picchu with my sister and a friend made my second visit feel completely different from the first. At the beginning of 2025, I had no idea what kind of travel year was ahead of me. Egypt was the big trip on my mind—the bucket-list family trip I’d been thinking about for years….