How to Earn Flying Club Miles & Other Points for ‘Free’ Travel
We used American Express Membership Points and Virgin Atlantic Flying Club Miles to get our Upper Class flights from London to San Francisco worth £14,000 for 100,000 points + £700 to cover taxes and fees. In this post, I’ll go into how we earned those points and how...
Driving LA to San Diego: Pacific Coast Highway Day 5
The final stretch of our Californian road trip was driving along the coast from LA to San Diego. We had an extra night in LA to give us a break from the car and we made the most of the break to explore Venice Beach and Santa Monica on foot. Missed day 4? Click here to...
Fog in LA: Pacific Coast Highway Road Trip Day 4
Day 4 of our Californian road trip took us from Pismo Beach to LA and we were looking forward to seeing some more seaside towns and the flash, out-of-our-price-range-forever houses of Malibu. Unfortunately the weather had other ideas. Missed Day 3? Click here to check...
Pismo Beach Wine Tasting: Pacific Coast Highway Road Trip Day 3
When we started planning out our California road trip along the Pacific Coast Highway we wanted to make sure we didn’t plan any days that involved too much driving. This was because of our experience on our Iceland Road Trip where we had some REALLY long days. We love…
Big Sur Drive: Pacific Coast Highway Road Trip Day 2
This was the most scenic part of the Pacific Coast Highway according to our (limited) research and knowing we’re prone to long photo stops and wanted to do a couple of the hikes in Big Sur, we decided to get an early start then finish the day in Cambria so we didn’t have to feel too rushed…
Whale Watching in Monterey: Pacific Coast Highway Road Trip Day 1
I’ve been dreaming for years of driving the Pacific Coast Highway and was very excited to wake up early on a Sunday to start the drive. Day 1 of our PCH road trip took us from San Francisco to Monterey and included an amazing whale watching trip with Monterey Bay
4 days in San Francisco
When we first started planning the start of our big round the world trip we thought we’d ease back into full time travel and have quite a relaxed start to it without too much running around sightseeing. I had already spent nearly a month staying across the bay in...
Flying in Style with Virgin Atlantic Upper Class
On December 1, we kicked off this crazy adventure by flying Virgin Atlantic Upper Class from London to San Francisco. This flight had a retail value of over £14,000 but we only paid about £700 total for the both of us which is less than it would have cost us to fly...
Biking Across the Golden Gate Bridge to Sausalito
Getting a good view of the Golden Gate bridge is one thing but the best way to see the golden gate bridge is to ride a bike over it. We set out for Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco to hire Bikes and cycle across the Golden Gate bridge to Sausalito on the other side...