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Planning our 2021 Greek Island Hopping

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 It has been almost 2 years since Nate and I have taken an actual "vacation"!   Like everyone else, the past year and a half has caused us to cancel so many planned vacations. It has been brutal on my travel planning heart. We booked a trip to the Maldives & cancelled, we booked 2 trips to MX & cancelled, we had a November TA on Allure of the Seas cancelled, etc etc etc…In spite of all of the cancellations, we continued to accumulate credit card points as much as we could.   We also made several trips to Florida, sold our house in CO, and rented a house in CO for the next year (step daughter’s senior year).     Through all of these cancellations and all of the stress and breakdowns since March 2020, we both kept feeling Greece calling us to return. In May on 2021, I received an email that United was having a major mileage sale. We were able to score two first class one way tickets to Athens in October for 60k miles each. I went ahead and booked