Le Chic Geek

This weekend, Keri and I attended the Frequent Traveler University in DC.  Here’s a round-up of links covering it and the Freddies: Ten Notes About FTU from Mommy Points View from the Wing with the Results of the Freddies. Mommy Points Coverage of the Executive Summit And keep an eye …

I never thought I would be sore from a government issue.  Not sore as in I’m upset at them (well, I am too), but physically sore! I had some meetings in DC followed by an evening event in Chicago.  I booked a flight with a tight time constraint, knowing this …

Sometimes, I have a bad habit of not reading.  Well, not reading enough.  I’ve always tossed my complimentary US Airways Day Passes aside.  Why?  Because I’m a club member already, and it clearly says, “Pass is not transferable.”  Since it isn’t transferable, it’s pretty useless to me. Except it isn’t. …

In 2012, I flew over 120,000 miles.  That’s over 5 times around the world.  Half the distance to the moon.  Twenty-four round trips from here to San Francisco.  I can’t even remember all the states I saw in that year.  Well, aside from Oklahoma.  I was really excited about Oklahoma. …

While taking the long-trip to Hawaii from DC, I was showing my new husband some of my tips-and-tricks in flight.  He suggested I post on them, so here goes! Use your entree to warm your butter.  The bread usually comes out warm, but the better is usually ice cold.  Instead …

My trip to Hawaii was for my honeymoon, so I was being a bit less focused on cost-savings than I usually am (aside from the free hotel stay, of course).  When I purchased our tickets from OGG-LIH (and back), I had the option of booking first-class for each direction for …

I’ve mentioned before I have had a habit of stockpiling points.  I was stockpiling into Hyatt for quite a while.  Enough so that I (eventually) booked almost three weeks of travel time while only paying for one night myself. I did this by booking as many nights as I could …

When I went to book my honeymoon, my options seemed limitless at first.  I had a crazy amount of US Airways miles and the world was my oyster.  Thailand? Singapore?  …Antarctica? But this is my honeymoon, and the more complicated I made an itinerary, the more I realized I would …

We decided to have our wedding up in New York, since I have an incredible (and overwhelming!) number of relatives.  Because Bill is from Texas, we currently live in DC, and we both have country-hopped a little, we had friends coming in from all over. This required us to get …

Post-engagement, wedding planing took off.  I started realized a lot of these large charges at once from deposits could really help me hit minimum spend, so  I got the Chase Ink (50k) and moved my work spending to that, and I already had the Chase Sapphire while it was still …