2020 started out as a year full of travel and excitement for me and my family. There was a lot to look forward to. Most important, of course, was the birth of our son early in the year. Our family of two was now a family of three. The rest of 2020 was going to […]
Travel
My Road Trip Home During The Pandemic – And Using Points To Book Suites Along The Way
About a year ago, I booked a two-week trip to Greece for a friend’s wedding. This trip was going to be a big one, with my wife, myself, and our future baby all headed overseas to celebrate with our friends (our son would be 5 months old by the time we started our trip – […]
A Thanksgiving Trip To Miraval Arizona Resort & Spa With Hyatt Points
Editors Note: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here. One of the things that travel hacking has allowed me to do is to travel a lot more – and to do so in ways that I wasn’t able to do before. Back in December, I wrote about a spontaneous […]
Combining SoFi Experiences And Travel Hacking For Free Flights And Free Events
It’s been a while since I’ve talked about SoFi and how much value I’ve received from refinancing my student loans with them way back in 2015. Refinancing did two things for me. First, it dramatically lowered my interest rate, which made it easier for me to pay off my student loans as fast as I […]
Financial Panther 2018 Personal And Blog Year In Review
With 2019 just starting up, I thought it’d be a good time to look back at 2018 and review how my year went, both personally and on this blog. What follows is a post that covers four things: (1) a brief financial year in review; (2) a travel year in review; (3) a blog year […]
What’s In My Wallet: A List Of All Of My Credit Cards
Over the past year and a half, my wife and I have accumulated hundreds of thousands of points and miles from the strategic opening and use of credit cards. These points and miles have served us well, allowing us to do a ton of traveling over the past year that we otherwise wouldn’t have been […]
Earning Our First Southwest Companion Pass
Editors Note: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here. A few days ago, my wife and I earned our first ever Southwest Companion Pass. We’d set out to earn this perk last year when a deal came up that gave us the opportunity to earn the Companion Pass in the […]
How Much Does It Cost To Go To FinCon? (Plus A FinCon Recap)
A few years ago, when I was a brand new, baby blogger, I learned about an event called FinCon. If you’ve never heard of FinCon, it’s basically a gathering of personal finance bloggers and podcasters (with the occasional YouTuber thrown in). Yes, it’s as nerdy as it sounds. But if you’re deep in this personal […]
A Weekend In New York City, Compliments of Hyatt and SoFi
Last month, my wife and I flew to New York for a wedding up in the Hudson River Valley. Neither of us had been to New York in quite some time. The last time I was in New York was for callback interviews in the summer between my first and second year of law school […]
Southwest Companion Pass – How To Fly For Free For Two Years
Editors Note: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here. Ever since I began travel hacking, I’ve kept hearing about the Southwest Companion Pass and how beneficial it is to have. Many people consider it one of the best travel hacking perks you can earn, allowing you and a partner […]
