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New Mexico
Santa Fe
Green chile, the galleries worth it, the hot-spring ritual, where to stay.
Field Guides
The plans we actually ran, yours to keep .
Field Reports are the free read. The guides are the deep, printable version: the day-by-day we actually ran, where we stayed and ate, the kid logistics. Four are free for an email. The rest we charge for, because they took as long to build as the trips did.
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Four to start with.
The same deep-dive we'd hand a friend planning the same trip. Drop your email and it lands in your inbox. No drip campaign, no nonsense.
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France
Paris
Five days with kids. The Louvre by scavenger hunt, a market picnic on Place des Vosges, Girafe by the tower, and Versailles done right.
Free
Hawaii
Maui
Where we stayed, the Road to Hana plan, the snorkel rule we never break.
Free
Northern Italy
Lake Garda
The lake towns, the swims, the ferry plan, the dinners worth the drive.
The deep-dives · $14 each
Worth paying for.
These took longer to build than the free ones: the full day-by-day, printable, the way we actually ran it. One place at a time, or the whole of Italy in one guide below.
$14
Tuscany, Italy
Florence
The trattorias, the gelato, the morning stroll, the Oltrarno we love.
$14
South Tyrol, Italy
The Dolomites
Five days above Castelrotto. The lifts, the huts with playgrounds, Seceda before the crowds, the wooden boat on Braies.
$14
Louisiana
New Orleans
One honest day in the Quarter with kids. Beignets, the courtyard lunch, the streetcar, dinner over Jackson Square.
$14
South of France
Provence
Five days from the Aix countryside. Markets, ochre villages, the calanques, the home-table nights.
$29
The whole country, one guide
Or take the whole of Italy, one list.
The entire trip in one file. Rome, Tuscany, the coast, Lake Garda, and the Dolomites, planned the way we ran them. The route we'd repeat, the meals we'd rebook, the towns worth the extra drive.
- Florence and the Dolomites in full, plus everywhere the route runs between them
- Rome, Tuscany, and the coast south of the city, the way we actually did them
- Lake Garda's swims and ferry days folded into the same trip
- The hotels and tables worth flying back for, the ones we'd book again
$29
The method, not a place
How we fly a family of four nearly free.
The whole system in one PDF: the transfer-partner sweet spots, our real redemptions with the numbers, the kid-travel math nobody explains.
- The transfer-partner map: which program books which airline, and why it matters
- Our actual redemptions across Europe, Maui, and the Caribbean: points in, what we got
- Hotel points vs. free-night certs vs. cash-and-points, decoded
- Home Exchange and ThirdHome, skipping hotels entirely
Reports, guides, the method: what's what
Three things, one obsession.
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Field Reports
The free read. Our honest verdict on a place: what's worth the flight, what we'd skip, the one dinner, the kid logistics. Start here.
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The Field Guides
The report, gone deep and printable. Some are free for an email; the deeper ones are $14, and the whole of Italy is $29. All about a place.
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The Travel-Hacking Method
How we book flights and stays for almost nothing, the whole system in one PDF. The one guide that isn't about a destination.
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