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January 2019 - ATX Fun - Austin-San Antonio Fun, Travel & Educational Opportunities

Month: January 2019

Finding Things to Do in a City You Plan to Visit

My personal preferred way to explore a new city is to take a hop-on-hop-off bus tour the first day. If you have a 48-hour ticket, you can ride around once to get an overview, then ride again with stop-overs at the places you found interesting.

Eiffel Tower in Paris, Photo by hillarywilliamtanner / Flickr
Eiffel Tower in Paris, Photo by hillarywilliamtanner / FlickrFlickr

Another idea, particularly if you want to meet some locals, is to check Eventbrite and Meetup for the city you plan to visit. I’ve found a multitude of happenings that way, mostly free.

New Southwest Credit Card Gives Easy, Quick 1-Yr Companion Pass

Wow! Get one credit card, spend $4K and you’ve got unlimited free (actually, $5.60) flights on Southwest Airlines for a companion for the rest of 2019.

If your FICO score is ~720+, and you don’t run a balance on your other credit card(s), and you sometimes fly Southwest with a friend/spouse/offspring/etc., this is a super deal.


Southwest plans to begin flying to Hawai’i this year.


References:

https://awardwallet.com/blog/southwest-companion-pass-welcome-bonus

HOT! Limited Time Offer: Signup For A Southwest Card And Get An Unlimited Use Free Companion Pass And 30,000 Points!

My wife and I have enjoyed flying “free” with our Companion Passes for several years. Good luck!

Hiking In and Around Austin

Regular hiking is good for the body and the mind. Several Meetup groups have regular hikes in the Austin area, as does the Sierra Club and others.

I have regularly hiked with the Monday-Friday Hikers for 7+ years. Most of us in the group do not work a regular 9-to-5 job, so our hikes begin at 9:30 AM. We usually walk for 1 to 3 hours.

We do not recruit new members directly. Instead, we encourage people to take the “Hiking Austin Trails” course given by Austin’s Lifetime Learning Institute. Tuition for that course is just $20, and it meets 8 times for hikes on some of the same trails that the Mon-Fri Hikers frequent. Anyone who is comfortable with the Hiking Austin Trails hikes is welcome to join us.