I love the way points & miles – and the benefits of my credit cards and previous travel – affords me the ability to travel on a whim! I was eating lunch with my co-workers today and made a comment that I wanted to get away. We pulled up the American Airlines app and I found round trip flights for $226 to San Antonio. I had been looking at San Antonio as a possible get-away destination over the past few weeks (ask my son! I tried to talk him into a birthday trip there.) So within minutes I had talked two of my co-workers into joining me along with their teenage daughters on a weekend trip to San Antonio in just two weeks.

I’m using my credit from my last trip to pay my airfare and still have over $350 left to use at a later date. I’ll use points for my hotel room. Only my food and admission to Sea World will cost me money. And the Lyft to and from the airport and Sea World.

Where would you like to go? And can you say that you’re traveling for free? Happy travels!