Tag: Money

Destinations, Food, Restaurant Roundups and Reviews, Tennessee, Travel, USA

A Review of Dinner at Tailor in Nashville, Tennessee

Exterior of Tailor in Nashville at night

Sharing an honest review of Tailor, a unique restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee For the uninitiated, Nashville has a phenomenal dining scene. Honestly, you pretty much have to purposely try to find a bad meal in the city. Which is great! Except when you’re trying to find just the right place to celebrate a big occasion …

Charlotte, Destinations, Food, North Carolina, Restaurant Roundups and Reviews, Travel, USA

10 Great Meals in Charlotte for Under $10

Alyssa stands in front of the sign outside of Yume

Can I tell you something? I kind of love talking about money. Not in the sense of investments or stocks, but how we use it every day. It’s taboo, I know – but spending money is something we all do. And I think the world would be a better place if there was a little …

Destinations, Travel, US Virgin Islands, USA

Travel Guide for Four Days in St. Croix, USVI

Alyssa is walking along the paved shore in Frederiksted, St. Croix. She is wearing a tan jumpsuit and a Panama hat

Back in August, Michael and I took our first flight since the start of the pandemic. We weren’t even planning to travel by air; we were set on doing a mini-road trip to Richmond, Virginia, to celebrate our dating anniversary (13 years – time flies!). But, as I often do when I’m bored, I found …

Travel, Travel Tips

Why You Should Never Use PayPal When Paying for Travel Expenses

Upside-down piggy bank with "x" over its eyes

Though I once sang their praises for their return shipping refund (which ended in November 2022), I learned the hard way not to use the PayPal platform for any foreign transactions. You see, last month Michael and I booked several Airbnbs for our trip to Spain and Italy, and to avoid Airbnb’s conversion fees, I …

Travel, Travel Tips

Fair and Square: How to Split Travel Costs When One Person Makes More Money

Two piggy banks. The small one is in the foreground and it just has a few dollars in the hole. The large piggy bank in the back has a lot of money in and around it.

Let’s dive into a taboo topic today: money. And not only reading about money, or spending money—today we’ll be talking about money in a way that we hate: talking about it with other people. I briefly mentioned this topic in a previous post [see more here: 20 questions you should ask a potential travel partner …

Home, Travel, Travel Tips

5 Easy Ways to Save Money This Week (for your next trip!)

polka dotted piggy bank turned upside down

It’s Monday, the start of another grueling work week. And I would be willing to bet you airfare that someone will complain to me sometime this week about how expensive travel is. They’re not wrong – travel is expensive. This is why Michael and I, at this point in our lives and careers, have to …

Destinations, Food, Mexico, Restaurant Roundups and Reviews, Travel

A Meal to Remember: What it’s Like to Dine at Pujol in Mexico City

Two Pujol menus that are closed

Let’s just get this out of the way: I felt awful by the time we left Pujol, Enrique Olvera’s flagship restaurant in Mexico City. Despite the fact that we’d stopped eating many hours earlier in anticipation of our incredible dinner ahead, at some point, I misjudged where we were in the menu’s course listing and …