Travelling Minions in 2022

2022 saw the return of travel for me and much of the world! With many countries loosening their COVID restrictions, the prospect of exploring is tempting again! Airlines begin to offer deals to win back business, and tourism ads start to pop up in YouTube Advertisements again. Looking back, I realize a lot of my travel is concentrated in the back half of 2022. I suspect this is due to most...

Minion Monies: How much did my 2019 trip to Hawaii cost?

The following will be an accounting of my 2019 trip to Hawaii. If you've not read the blog, you can do so here. It might provide some extra context to the costs below! The Transportation ($699.67) The Flights ($414.52) To get to Hawaii, I booked a round trip Flight on Westjet between Vancouver and Honolulu. Everything is pretty straightforward for this one as we only had one set of flights to...

Minion Monies: How much did my 2022 Maui Trip Cost?

The following will be an accounting of the Maui Trip I took with several friends in March and April of 2022. If you've not read the blog, you can do so here. Or if you want a summary of the entire trip you can check that out here. It might provide some extra context to the costs below! The Transportation ($1279.12 & 6 eUpgrade Credits) The Flights ($401.11 & 6 eUpgrade Credits) Booking a...

Wrapping up our trip to Maui

Now that blogging about Maui is done. It's time to wrap it up with a few thoughts. This being the first "real" international trip I've taken since the pandemic, I'm glad it went as planned without much disruption! If you've spent the time to read through the trip, I appreciate it! If not and you want to, you can find the whole trip here. Here we go! Top 3 Highlights Highlight #1: Learning to Surf...

Last Days in Maui

a'a Roots Health Cafe Our first stop for today is new spot for our daily acai bowl at a'a Roots Health Cafe.  This is spot is purported to have a pretty good one. However, either they were too busy, or its just normal they forgot to add honey on all of our bowls. So while it still looks nice, it did lack a fair bit of flavour. Maybe its intentional or maybe they simply forgot because it was...

More Road Tripping and Relaxing

Breakfast and Coffee Right across the street from our airBnB is a cool little coffee shop called Hawaiian Village Coffee. It seems fairly popular because in the morning there is a line right out the door. We end up waiting a little before ordering and getting our coffees. In the same plaza is a McDonald's and who could pass up an opportunity to get a Hawaiian McDonald's breakfast of rice, eggs...