5 Things That Make Virgin Voyages Different – And Better – Than Other Cruise Lines
- Whitney
- August 8, 2022
This past February, as the first Covid Omicron wave began to subside, the hubby and I had the opportunity to take a long-awaited cruise on brand new cruise line Virgin Voyages. We had originally booked the trip for 2020, and after having to delay because of Covid regulations twice, we were eager to see if […]
Read MoreFive Actually Useful Disney World Hacks to Have the Perfect Vacation
- Whitney
- September 29, 2021
People tend to have a really love or hate relationship with Walt Disney World. For each diehard, visits multiple times a year, annual-passholder-even-though-they-live-out-of-state person out there, there’s also an equal number that feel like Disney takes all the fun out of vacationing through the need for meticulous advance planning. While I can certainly see both […]
Read MoreTrip Report: A Quick Getaway to Miami
- Whitney
- August 4, 2021
Last week, the hubby and I were originally supposed to set sail on the new Virgin Voyages cruise ship out of Miami, but due to the ongoing pandemic, our cruise was sadly cancelled. However, as we’re never ones to turn down a vacation, we decided to keep the pre-cruise portion of our trip even if […]
Read MoreTrip Report: Celebrating my Mom’s Birthday in Denver
- Whitney
- June 30, 2021
Last month, I had the opportunity to take a trip that COVID had lonnnnng delayed. In May of 2020, my mom was celebrating a milestone birthday, and a milestone birthday requires a milestone present: I offered to take her anywhere in the US that Southwest flies and that Hilton has hotels. Of course, then COVID […]
Read MoreTrip Report: How a former-local spends a reunion weekend in Austin, Texas
- Whitney
- June 8, 2021
Our “travel revenge” continued recently, with yet another weekend trip, this time to Austin, Texas to see our many friends who still live there. Since our move to Dallas two years ago, we’d made a tendency of visiting Austin multiple times a year, but COVID had unfortunately put a temporary stop to that, and so […]
Read MoreTrip Report: A Foodie Weekend In Suburban Houston, Texas
- Whitney
- June 6, 2021
As you may know, since getting our Covid vaccines, we’ve been on something of a travel jaunt here at Mrs. Millennial, visiting both Fort Worth and Napa in recent weeks. But the first week of May I got to take my most important Covid trip yet: visiting my mom, grandmother, and aunt’s family in Houston, […]
Read MoreTrip Report: Four Day Trip to Napa
- Whitney
- June 2, 2021
After successfully re-testing the travel waters with our very first post-COVID staycation trip to Fort Worth, we felt confident heading slightly further afield, and so decided to book a four-day, three-night visit to Napa, California. As wine lovers, we knew we’d find plenty to do there, and better yet, in the new post-COVID atmosphere, we […]
Read MoreOur first post-COVID trip: weekend in Fort Worth
- Whitney
- May 30, 2021
Hello loyal blog readers, and may I just say it is SO nice to chat with you once again! After the suckiness of 2020, 2021 was threatening to bring more of the same, until I flipped the script with some big life changes. So far in the first few months of 2021, I’ve gotten vaccinated, […]
Read MoreTrip Report: Falling in Love with San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Whitney
- February 21, 2020
Friends, we just got back from an absolutely amazing trip to Puerto Rico a couple weeks ago. It was so good, in fact, that I couldn’t believe that we’d never thought to check out Puerto Rico — the very American island destination in the Caribbean — until now. Let me tell you about some of […]
Read MoreA Family Christmas Visit to New Orleans
- Whitney
- February 14, 2020
Can you believe it’s already Valentine’s Day? How is that possible? 2020 is literally flying by, and I just realized I still hadn’t shared with you all about our recent Christmas holiday trip! This Christmas was a big one for my family — my grandmother turned 85, and told us that she wanted to mark […]
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