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Japan

Welcome to my ultimate guide to Nozawa Onsen, Japan for first-time visitors and solo snowboarders and skiers! This is my fourth stop on my Snowboarding Around the World trip and my first destination in Japan. Timing for Nozawa Onsen was crucial because I not only wanted to come for snowboarding, but I really wanted to experience the annual Dosojin Fire Festival, which takes place every year on January 15th. The fire festival is super popular,

Finland

This is my ultimate guide to Levi, Finland for first-time visitors and solo snowboarders/skiers! This is the third stop in my Snowboarding Around the World trip that I took last season. You might be wondering why I wanted to go to Finland and it was for a few reasons. First, I wanted to see if I could catch the Northern Lights. Second, I wanted to visit Santa Claus' village. Third, I saw all these amazing

France

This is my ultimate guide to Les 3 Vallées, France for first-time visitors and solo snowboarders/skiers! Last season, I accomplished an insane solo snowboarding trip around the world and I documented mostly on my Instagram but I thought I would start detailing everything on my blog for people that want to do something similar. If you haven't read the first destination of my trip yet (Chamonix), I've put the link down below.  Related Article: The

France

This is my ultimate guide to Chamonix, France for first-time visitors and solo snowboarders/skiers! Earlier last year, I accomplished an insane snowboarding trip around the world and I thought I would start writing blog posts for anyone who is thinking about doing the same thing as I am. Chamonix is an amazing town and I was so glad that I got to start my trip off here. If you are looking to the future, I

Las Vegas

Welcome back to Part 2 of the Best Use of the $300 Amex Platinum Hotel Credit series! If you’ve read Part 1, you’ll know that I already used $195 of my $300 credit at the Wynn Las Vegas. I intentionally didn’t book a more expensive room there because I wanted to use the remaining credit for an extra night at another Fine Hotels + Resorts property. And with that, we’re off to the Bellagio. Related

Las Vegas

Previously, I have found the annual Amex Platinum hotel credit of $200 to be pretty insignificant especially when hotels through their Fine Hotels and Resorts Program or Hotel Collection can start around a couple hundred dollars just for one night. Well, if you haven't heard, Amex has changed the benefit from a $200 credit once per year to $600 split between $300 for the first half of the year (Jan-June) and the other $300 during

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