Over the weekend, the Michael W Travels family visited Diggerland USA , a construction theme park for their 2018 Media Day. The park has expanded quite a bit and added lots of new rides since our visit back in 2014. (Check back for a recap of our most recent visit.)

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After much debate, I finally booked a flight using American Airlines miles for our one month summer trip. Our miles will get us to our first destination, but we may need to use cash to book our flight home. That’s the problem with miles and points- you can’t always get what you want!

Lucas has been wanting to return to Diggerland Construction Theme Park for quite some time. It looks like we’ll be doing a last minute trip there this upcoming weekend thanks to a media invite. We’ll use IHG points to book a night close by rather than having to drive home immediately after. Continue reading 500 Bonus United Miles With App, FAA Regulating Airplane Seat Size, Don’t Steal 1st Class Blankets, AA Being Sued Over 25 Year-Old’s Death, International McD’s Items In Chicago & More- The Rehash! →

I thought that I had the flights for our summer trip worked out until I ran into a problem. Find out more about what happened below.

While we love to use our airline miles to book flights, sometimes a good deal is hard to pass up. My friend Travis of Extra Pack of Peanuts has a new app out called Jetto which is aggregating these offers. Find out all about it and enter for a chance to win a flight to Dublin. (If you enter the contest using my link, I’ll earn additional entries.)

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I’m currently looking into some ideas for our longer summer trip for 2018. I’d love to use some American Airlines miles since Kim and I have a lot of them, but it isn’t easy finding award availability!

The minimum spend for my newest credit card is almost completed. I’m now hoping to find another card worth applying for. (This won’t be easy!)

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The Michael W Travels family had an awesome time during our Spring Break trip to Portugal. The hills in Lisbon are no joke and an amazing workout if you walk everywhere like we did.

We were really impressed with Portugal and would’ve liked time to see even more of the country. Someday I hope to return.

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