My Background

I grew up in a middle class family and had 2 older brothers and a mother/father that busted their asses for us.  I lived just outside of Seattle, WA where  it rained all the time and somehow still loved it. I am a father of 2 children and have a beautiful wife whom you will learn I love to travel with.

When it all started…

My dad was a timeshare salesman, so I had pretty good base knowledge of tourism and point systems. I thought I had a pretty good understanding of the points game, but it really clicked when I started getting into the business arena.

Early on in my business career, I started traveling a lot and started to accumulate a fair amount of credit card points.  I thought “well, this is pretty amazing since I’ve never really gotten any free stuff before…I should probably use this credit card since it’s giving me cash back and then another credit card because they had a really cool sign-on bonus.”  What I found out really quickly was it took me a long time to accumulate enough points to take my wife on a vacation.  I also found out that I was getting points in many different programs and it was hard to keep track of it all. So over the years, to preserve my own sanity, I put together a system to keep my wife and I on track so we knew exactly which card we should be using when. This quickly resulted in hitting rewards thresholds in terms of points and we got to start traveling in luxury. Now, some might think by “luxury” I mean simple airfare for a domestic flight…what I’m actually referring to is 1st class tickets overseas on a 10 hour flight where my wife and I were getting to lay down while getting champagne handed to us and traveling like a celebrity.

Since my wife and I have been doing this for years, we were constantly getting approached by our friends, family, and even strangers asking us how we do it. We would help them create a custom program based on what they needed to buy on a monthly basis and build out many different plans for them. As a result, we have seen dozens of friends go on exotic vacations that they never could have dreamed of.  We have personally made dreams come true and that’s the best part of creating this program is that it’s a labor of love.

The New Reality

So now, what we have built for you here is based off of our vast knowledge of personally helping ourselves and friends (like you and I) go on once-in-a-lifetime vacations, without having to increase your salary or travel budgets. We are not experts and we do not pretend to call ourselves “the best in travel” or assume our way is the only way.  What we can call ourselves are “normal people who like to get more for our hard earned money”…and you can to. We are constantly learning all the time and tweaking our skill set.  We know that new offers and new tricks are coming out all the time and we stay on the forefront of this.

I know that I love traveling and that will never stop and I know that I also love providing information to people to be able to do the same.  Life is fun and we always have to remember that!  Enjoy the ride and be the student that shares and don’t hold it in!