Tiffany Arielle

In case you missed my previous post about traveling to Europe , the general summary is that I traveled to Switzerland and London via New York City with my mom to celebrate her birthday. I was able to use credit card points to book most of our flights including business class flights, so this blog post is about the process I used to accomplish that. If you prefer to consume this content in video form, check out my Youtube video . First things first, you have to prep. You'll want to ask yourself if there is a specific place that you want to go or if you are flexible in terms of location. It will be a lot easier to find award availability if you have location flexibility. If you are set on traveling to a specific location, another way to create location flexibility is to book what's called a "self-transfer" where you book the award flight to/from a different location than your desired location then book a separate flight/train/whatever to/from the award flight location. ...

As promised in my post about 2025 Health Goals , here is the monthly goal update for January. I've decided that for each monthly goal, I'll use the following emojis to denote how happy I am with the result. 😃💚 - very happy with the result 😕💛 - ok with the result but some room for improvement 😠🔴 - not happy with the result # of pounds lost: 1.6  😕💛 # of workouts completed: 13  😃💚 breakdown of # of days that I fully met, partially met or didn't meet my food goals:  😕💛 I lost more in the first half but went through a period of poor food choices towards the middle of the month. I self-corrected a bit towards the end of the month. We'll see what February looks like since I'm on vacation for pretty much the first half of the month) I would like the "Fully Met" bucket to be at least 60% (ideally 75%) and the "Didn't Meet" bucket to be closer to 15% or less (about once a week). I decided to still give myself a medium reaction since this i...

Back in September/October, I basically went on a world tour (not really but I did visit 5 different cities across 3 different countries not counting the day trips we took). I'm finally getting around to writing a recap of that trip. I'll first provide the day by day recap with all activities, restaurants and hotels linked. At the end, I'll provide a cost breakdown for the main items (flights, hotels, activities). If you prefer this content in video form (more visual), please check out my Youtube Video . Day 1 (Sunday, September 22): Usher Concert in LA I flew down to LAX from SFO on United Airlines. I have the United Explorer card  (link is a referral link FYI), so I tend to fly with them for domestic travel since I get free checked baggage and priority boarding. This helps on full flights since I don't have to worry about the overhead bins being full by the time I board. I stayed at The Hilton Los Angeles Airport . I definitely recommend staying at one of the airport h...