A meeting thousands of years in the making… I grew up reading about history since the 2nd grade. I grabbed ever book I could – ancient Egypt, Rome, Aztecs, the World Wars. As I grew older, my fascination with the past grew deeper. But all that reading was just that – reading. I wanted to…
…ni somos de aquí, ni somos de allá… After visiting the Expo 2020 Dubai, I’ve been thinking lots about my identity. Walking into the Colombia Pavilion exhibit with my Colombian flag, I became emotional to see my cultural homeland represent its beauty and spirit. I felt this joy en mi corazón, un orgullo I can’t…
Read more (25 Days de Viajes) Defining my Identity in my Travels
This is developing news. Info below as of Oct. 15, 2021. ¿Que paso? The USA is allowing vaccinated travelers to enter land and air borders empezando el 8 de November. What vaccines are accepted? The following list are the vaccines being accepted to enter the USA: Pfizer-BioNTechModernaJohnson & JohnsonOxford-AstraZeneca/CovidshieldSinopharm*Sinovac, Sputnik and Covaxin vaccines are NOT…
The joy of traveling is coming back, but the pandemic reminds us of the need to care for others. We remember that the beginning of the pandemic, the leading scientists were telling us that it might be years before we would find a vaccine to cure COVID-19. Años. Hundreds of days not being able to…
After having to reroute our Labor Day Weekend plans from Hawaii, we decided to visit the Cabo San Lucas area for the first time. The last-minute change did force us to split our hotel stays into two: the JW Marriott and the Hilton Los Cabos. Let’s review the JW first, a great resort with great…
Read more Hotel Review: Enjoying Cabo at the JW Marriott Los Cabos
A beginner’s guide to earning maximum miles for your favorite airline. Bienvenidos to our first Miles Strategy Sabado, where we will talk about the many different ways there are to earning and using your miles. Today, we will focus on earning miles to one airline only, using Alaska Airlines as our example. Why Earn Miles…
We’ve heard from fellow travelers that they have big concerns about traveling abroad because of the COVID testing requirements each country has. Pero don’t worry, si se puede! We were able to travel to the UAE, Italy, and France last month. Let’s discuss three concerns that you might have regarding COVID testing requirements. La primera…
We didn’t anticipate writing a blog post on the tragedy that is occurring in Afghanistan. Regardless of the politics we all have, we can agree on one thing – we are abandoning a people that believed in the United States and its promise of freedom. It’s a gut-wrenching feeling, because for many Latinos, we came…
Our travel-hacking story began during our engagement in 2018. We were budgeting our wedding and planning our honeymoon to Bali when we began to appreciate travel-hacking as a strategy to achieve financial stability y viajar por el mundo. For us, travel-hacking means taking any steps to save money on your travels and/or enhancing your travel…
Hola mi gente! We are beginning our journey in the blogging universe. We’re a married U.S. Latino couple and hablando spanglish in the nation’s capital. #DINK Paid off $23k in one year to become consumer debt-free in 2020 – now working on student loans and keep a zero-based budget and invest. We hack points…
Latinos With Passports 