Traveling & Hospitality
Out of our 80+ guests, we were bound to have one bad apple, and she came this week. I’ll spare you all of the details, but don’t worry, it’s not like anything from Airbnb Nightmares but she will not be getting a glowing review from …
We have now lived in our home for almost ten months. To catch up, here are a few links to past posts about our house story, our airbnb rooms, why you should rent out your rooms, etc. In these ten months, we have had eight long-term …
Hello friends! I just wrote a blog post titled How to Plan a Girl’s Trip (& still be friends afterwards!).  I thought that I would go ahead and share the trip that inspired that post. I recently went to San Fransisco with three of my lovely girl …
I love the feel of Denver and Boulder. It seems like everyone was wearing Patagonia jackets and walking their dogs. I initially bought plane tickets there for a surprise trip for Collin’s birthday. I was being so careful about not giving the destination away, but of …
I have been hosting through Airbnb for about two years now, and I have learned a lot since posting our first listing. I reached out to other Airbnb hosts to see what some of their advice was for first time hosts. Here’s what they said: …
How do you share space with housemates? Do they share a kitchen? Do you have your own bathroom? How do you keep things separate? These are all questions that I get a lot. If you have more questions that I don’t address in this post, …
In my experience, traveling gets really expensive when you are browsing hotels and figuring out where to stay. I was so thankful to find out about Airbnb, and being able to travel and stay places for much less money. Airbnb has all sorts of different …
How We Got There I started looking around for places to go on Groupon and Go-Today.com. On those sites you can find vacation package deals for relatively cheap. We actually did our honeymoon trip through Go-Today, but I think I have gotten a bit more …
Gifting is not my “love language,” but I do love planning surprise trips. For different holidays or birthdays, my husband and I enjoy planning trips for one another. For Christmas last year, I rented an Airbnb cabin up in the north woods of Wisconsin. That …
How We Got There We flew Spirit for the first time. I was nervous about this because I heard that Spirit had low ratings of getting flights canceled or to the destination on time. I was doubly nervous because there was bad weather coming into …