Was just looking at someone’s travel photos from Ireland - definitely on my list. Most photos were of places DH would not be able to navigate, beaches, walls, stairs, cobblestones.
I am visiting nieces, sisters-in-law, nephew-in-law, and grandnephew in the US Virgin Islands, leaving tomorrow morning. I just put my boarding passes in my Google wallet. Easy peasy.
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Sounds great. I use my Apple wallet (Google works fine also) not only for boarding passes but paying for everything when I travel (including the underground in London). No signatures required on charges.
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One of the reasons that H and I have been doing a lot of traveling the past 5 years (we are not yet retired) is because we didn’t want to wait to be retired and possibly have physical issues that would hinder travel. As I have said before H gets 6 weeks of vacation a year and I get 4 weeks, but can take time off without pay if I plan it when my department is not busy. Also being able to spend current earnings and travel is helping our retirement income grow.
In the past year we traveled to London, Portugal, and Mexico City. We also skied just under 20 days during the winter and did several ski/road trips. This September we will travel to Bermuda for 10 days to visit H’s family and relax.
Once we do retire we plan to do a road trip around France, Spain and Portugal and we want to spend a month in Italy. Seeing D1 and her H’s honeymoon pictures from New Zealand the past couple of weeks has moved this up on our list of places to visit.
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I use it for my half-fare rides on NYC subways and buses. I link it to a credit card that gives extra points for rideshare and mass transit.
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We’ve got a family reunion coming up in Canada, our normal hiking trip in the Canadian Rockies (one of my favorite place in the world), three weeks or so at our house near Montreal and then our 40th anniversary trip cycling in France in the fall.
One of my close friends has had an extraordinary professional life. Best-selling author of many books, sought for advice by billionaires and country presidents, great professional mission helping the world. Great wisdom. He is tired and just wanted to take time off and decided this year to take a sabbatical and just be. He is attending meditation retreats, trekking, walking the Camino in Spain, etc. and Since we were grad students, I have been blessed that we take what I call a strategic planning for life retreat every year, usually in the mountains. So this year, we are planning a week or two week bike trip, possibly in Portugal.
I’m trying to figure out a trip for my big number birthday with my children and their partners. I’d like to go to Japan as we took a wonderful trip with the kids probably 20 years ago, but I don’t think this will fit with the kids’ partners lives very easily – they have jobs that don’t allow that much travel. So, I’m thinking maybe Baja California Sud.
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My husband is a big fan of boarding pass in Apple wallet. I tried it but didn’t find much advantage over showing it from the United app (which I usually have open anyway, checking on status etc)
Because I’m crazy, I put boarding passes in my apple wallet, screenshot them and print them out. No way I’m not getting on that plane lol
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LOL - I always have a printout of my boarding pass (and any other reservations) tucked away in my backpack. Never needed it, but that’s my approach too.
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Sometimes the boarding passes in the app are better as they may incorporate gate changes. I get gate changes from Tripit Pro, I think, but often have the BP in more than one place. Sometimes I also screen shot like @deb22 but usually don’t print it out (I’m often in a hotel where printing or getting them to print will be a bit of a pain). But, I fly on many airlines and don’t have all of their apps (In my 290 expired passes, I see BA, Delta, JetBlue, United, Lufthansa, Porter, Air Canada, Egyptair, Avianca, Austrian, Westjet, Alaska, Eurowings, Swiss, Emirates, probably some I have missed – mostly BA, JetBlue and AC. I don’t want all of their apps.
I also have my priority pass card and a starbucks card, a good rx coupon have a spothero parking pass, eurostar boarding passes, theater tickets, and even a Hilton hotel pass in my apple wallet.
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lol. Me three! Especially if I check a bag, I have them print me out one at the counter in addition to anything I may have printed out beforehand.
Not retired yet, but we officially become empty nesters next month, and have planned some travel to mark the occasion.
We are kicking things off with a week in Utah in September, hiking and biking in 4 of the big 5.
In October, we’ll visit our D20 in Boston and most likely tack on a day or two in Vermont to the trip.
We then visit our D24 for family weekend in Rochester, NY - also adding on two days with our best friends with a visit to Watkins Glen and a day on the wine trail.
Working on plans for a late February trip to Puerto Rico.
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Yup, I’m an electronic copy PLUS print copy traveler. It allows me to be more confident in case something’s amiss with electronics—yup they can be wonky at inconvenient times.
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Congrats @DeeCee36, what are the big 5?
We did a day trip to Granada in Spain from Cordoba. I had the train tickets in my apple wallet. My phone battery was dying and I realized we wouldn’t be able to board the train. We had a hard time finding a functioning outlet at the station.
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Unless it’s a short trip, my husband loves to check bags. He hates shlepping bags around like a Sherpa.
There. That’s my deep dark travel secret.
We don’t even overpack.
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My mistake, not big but Mighty
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NZ has skiing, too! We have been there twice. Would go back again in a nanosecond. We still haven’t seen everything we’d like.
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I always have a portable charger handy. Well worth it!
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