Author: Edward Pizzarello

My goal in life is to fill my family’s passports with stamps, creating buckets of memories along the way. You’ll find me writing about realistic ways for normal people to travel the world, whether you’re on a budget or enjoy luxury. I also enjoy taking us on the occasional detour to explore the inner workings of the travel industry.

Giants Win!

Another one where we had to sweat it going down the stretch! It felt horrible to drive the ball twice in the second half and only come away with field goals.  We were still trailing by a couple of points, and their offensive line…

Lance Armstrong Saga Finally Over

As reported by ESPN, the federal government has elected to close it’s investigation into whether Lance Armstrong doped while riding professionally for the US Postal Service team.   I’ll admit, I thought this outcome was unlikely.  Jeff Novitsky was the federal agent who decided…

Traveling on Points is Easy

The most common thing I hear from friends and family is that they don’t bother collecting frequent travel points because it’s “hard”.  Besides, they say, you can never redeem them anyway.  Too much work for not enough return. I decided to try to do…

Flying With Family

Over the last few years I’ve been flying over 100,000 miles a year.  The vast majority of it is for work, but we’ve managed to squeeze in the occasional family trip. Our daughter (5 years old now) has always been a terrific flier.  In…

NEXUS/Global Entry-Now A Member

What is NEXUS/Global Entry you ask? NEXUS is a program that aids people in crossing the US/Canada border, whether by boat, plane or car. Global Entry is a way to expedite your return to the US through 20 gateways via plane.  Kind of an…