I never really imagined that I would be doing this: writing, blogging, and taking travel photos for a living after a 22-year career as a Chiropractic Physician. It is interesting and amazing where your life ends up taking you. I have been traveling the earth, mostly alone now, for 4 ½ years taking travel photos since I started this crazy thing called PointsandTravel. Before that,

By Cacinda Maloney As 2014 screeches to an end, I've stopped for a few moments, sitting in my cabin in the woods in Telluride, Colorado with light drizzles of snow outside as seen thru my picture window, to reflect on the year that it has been. I am overflowing with gratitude and joy for what I now realize has been one of the richest and

By Cacinda Maloney Tonight as I reflect on the tremendous travel that I did this year, not knowing what my 2014 travel year will look like, I take a few moments to pause and thank you all, my readers, my sponsors and my travel friends for all the experiences I had this year.  I am all about the destinations and then the experience I have

By Cacinda Maloney What have you been up to? Malaysia I was just thinking how the holidays come upon us so fast.   As a traveler, I am always scrambling around at the last minute to decide where to go and what to do for the holiday season.   And this year is no different.  My life and my travel plans change in

By Cacinda Maloney It has been an adventurous year, 2012.  I would say this is pretty typical of this travel gal.  I think I have been traveling at this rate for at least 4 or 5 years.  Sometimes I return to the places I love or have to go to work, or seminars, but most of these trips involve points and miles in some fashion or