The Travels & Tips of Nurse Traveler
Just a Nurse who Travels for Work
Overview 2023 was a pretty consistent year of travel for me. As with so many of the years before, I flew around 80,000 miles. Most of those miles were work travel (paid fares) with some PTO and mileage redemptions spread throughout. Let's take a look a the breakdown, with my cumulative map at the bottom.  Work Travel I …
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In 2019, I started blogging a few things as they seemed to garner interest from friends and colleagues. Outside of my family, travel is my great joy and I'm fortunate to be able to travel for work and for pleasure. The idea was that I'd share some information that others might find beneficial and it …
Like most of my recent years, 2019 was a year of a lot of flying (depending on your definition of a lot). As I travel frequently for work, I have quite a few domestic trips. What made 2019 unique for me was that every flight was domestic and every flight was on Alaska Airlines. Alaska …
Updated 11/27/2019 In the last 6 plus years, I have shifted the vast majority of my holiday shopping (and shopping in general) to online retailers. Most now have pretty flexible return options and I generally feel like I'm getting the better price online. Online shopping also allows me to easily compare products and prices across …
Continue reading "Earning Miles or Cash Back this Holiday Season (2019)"
I was recently talking with a friend who is looking to take an international trip in 2020. I asked if she had considered flights yet and she hadn't looked into them. In my opinion, the easiest tool to look for paid flights is Google Flights. Google Flights is a flight aggregator that has most of …
The Travels & Tips of Nurse Traveler 