Our Biggest Financial Fails (and Wins!) of 2017

January 24, 2018.Reading time 12 minutes.

2017 was the year we Warckens got super serious about investing. I wrote about the motivation for that in my New Life Resolutions post, but the abridged version is that I witnessed my stepfather dying of pancreatic cancer and to quote myself: “… nothing, and I mean nothing will inspire you to get your […]

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Hilton Status Match Through 2019

January 22, 2018.Reading time 7 minutes.

For a limited time Hilton is offering free status match to their Honors program. If you have elite status with any other hotel programs you can apply for a free match on Hilton’s Status match page. Chase IHG cardmembers get automatic Platinum Elite status and the past two years we’ve both used ours to […]

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Czech Republic

August 6, 2017.Reading time 9 minutes.

Powder Tower, part of the old city wall.

Prague is beautiful during the day, and downright magical at night.

St. George’s Basilica. A woman? Who can read?!

“I don’t look like a tourist, I don’t feel like a tourist.” – Greg Warcken

It’s rolled dough shaped like a cone and covered in sugar, then filled with more sugar. Greg couldn’t stop thinking about them!

There are healthier options at the local market.

It’s time for the latest installment of: We’ve Got a Week Off Where Should We Go? We debated between hiking in Colorado, volcanoes in Hawaii, and whatever-city-in-Europe-has-the-most-business-class-seats-available. Hello, Czech Republic! Well, hello Amsterdam, then hello Prague. It’s been a big dream of mine to visit Auschwitz but once we got to Amsterdam the KLM flights […]

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