Toni Perkins-Southam

Freelance Writer

Toni Perkins-Southam joined the AwardWallet team in 2017 as a moderator for AwardTravel 101, the original Facebook points and miles community, before later joining the AwardWallet Blog team as a freelance writer.

 

She is an award travel enthusiast who has been leveraging credit card rewards to travel around the world, for nearly free, with her husband and their four young children. Toni and her kids have spent the last several summers living in Europe, Central and South America and have encountered countless adventures throughout their travels.

 

Her passion is to inspire other big families by showing and teaching them that traveling with kids is not only logistically possible, but financially feasible for even the smallest of budgets.

How Citi Merchant Offers Works

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