Tag: United States

Travelling Minions in 2022

ByTravelling Minion December 31, 2022 2 Comments
2022 saw the return of travel for me and much of the world! With many countries loosening their COVID restrictions, the prospect of exploring is tempting again! Airlines begin to offer deals to win back business, and tourism ads start to pop up in YouTube Advertisements again. Looking back, I realize a lot of my travel is concentrated in the back half of 2022. I suspect this is due to most...

Minion Monies: How much did my 2019 trip to Hawaii cost?

ByTravelling Minion July 17, 2022 0 Comments
The following will be an accounting of my 2019 trip to Hawaii. If you've not read the blog, you can do so here. It might provide some extra context to the costs below! The Transportation ($699.67) The Flights ($414.52) To get to Hawaii, I booked a round trip Flight on Westjet between Vancouver and Honolulu. Everything is pretty straightforward for this one as we only had one set of flights to...

Minion Monies: How much did my 2020 New Zealand & Asia Trip Cost?

ByTravelling Minion June 26, 2022 0 Comments
The following will be an accounting of my 2020 trip to Australia, Singapore, Taiwan and New Zealand trip. If you've not read the blog, you can do so here. Or if you want a summary of the entire trip you can check that out here. It might provide some extra context to the costs below! The Transportation ($1906.67 & 208,000 Points) The Flights ($1076.90) The "Complicated Booking" ($628.06 &...

Minion Monies: How much did my 2022 Maui Trip Cost?

ByTravelling Minion June 18, 2022 1 Comment
The following will be an accounting of the Maui Trip I took with several friends in March and April of 2022. If you've not read the blog, you can do so here. Or if you want a summary of the entire trip you can check that out here. It might provide some extra context to the costs below! The Transportation ($1279.12 & 6 eUpgrade Credits) The Flights ($401.11 & 6 eUpgrade Credits) Booking a...

Wrapping up our trip to Maui

ByTravelling Minion June 12, 2022 3 Comments
Now that blogging about Maui is done. It's time to wrap it up with a few thoughts. This being the first "real" international trip I've taken since the pandemic, I'm glad it went as planned without much disruption! If you've spent the time to read through the trip, I appreciate it! If not and you want to, you can find the whole trip here. Here we go! Top 3 Highlights Highlight #1: Learning to Surf...

Planning for Hawaii

ByTravelling Minion April 26, 2019 3 Comments
Aloha! In May I will be travelling to Hawaii with some friends! Some familiar and some making their Travelling Minions debut! FunkyCat and Vino will be once again be travelling with me. Some of you will remember FunkyCat from our adventure through Japan in 2017. Vino Joined Gimpy and I when we visited Croatia after travelling through Turkey Meanwhile, we'll be introducing three new friends:...