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24 Hours in Santa Monica, California
I’m going to preface this post with saying… Yes. I am a loyalty points snob. Ok, now that I got that out of the way….. A few weeks ago, I was evaluating my 2021 loyalty points achievements and realized I was only about 5,000 miles away from earning the next status with American Airlines, and I needed to earn the points before the end of January. I was SO close! I talked it over with Dono and we decided that I’d take a quick weekend trip to earn the points. He had suggested flying to Miami and back in a day for a quick “mileage run,” but spending all day…
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Pirate’s Tower | Victoria Beach, California
A couple of years ago for work, I had the privilege of representing my company at a conference in Newport Beach, California. I volunteered to get there a day early so I could pick up the rental car and all the material we needed for the exhibitor booth. On my first day in Newport Beach I wanted to find a fun, trendy lunch spot. I googled a few places and found a restaurant called Sqirl. Sqirl was in East Hollywood. If you’re not from LA like me, East Hollywood and Newport Beach only looks like they’re about 30 minutes a part. Boy, I was wrong. It took me an hour…
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San Francisco, California
A few years ago, I had the privilege of taking a work trip to Sacramento, California to meet with a client. It was all business for 90% of the trip, until it was our last night in town. Unfortunately, the client we were working with needed to go home early, so my co-worker and I decided to wrap up the day a little early and head into San Francisco … after all, we were SO close, I couldn’t NOT go! I had never been to San Francisco before and was really eager to check it all out – even if we only had a few hours. After a few Google…
