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ITA Matrix Isn’t Dead Yet! You’re Just Using It Wrong – Travel Codex Fantastic read about one of the travel hacking tools long used and loved by this weird crowd 🙂 I am surprised Google (it bought the company that runs it) has not killed it yet and transferred all the brainpower over to Google Flights which I think it sucks (as many Google products do and then one day they get killed off suddenly….yeah, I am still pissed off they killed Google Reader!)
Another Mistake Fare?! Quick, Upend Your Life! – Travel Codex In Jeopardy, this would be “Daily Double”! These exact thoughts were in my head too…I did not even bother with this one as my phone went off too…When you add the flights to Washington DC and the visa costs and the short duration…excuse moi? Now if I was jobless or single maybe. Or maybe it was not that cheap lol.
American Express to Start Multi-Business Loyalty Program – New York Times Plenti reasons this will go nowhere, especially with the travel hacking crowd. Zzzzz…
Top 10 Chase Sapphire Preferred Credit Cards! – Personal Finance Digest Hey, if you are going to pump it, might as well PUMP BIG. We love to laugh around here and this one made me laugh. Can’t wait to get the Pulaski card next lol!
A Journey into the World’s Largest Cave – The Adventure Blog Hang Son Doong Cave. And drone. Classic!
A Breathtaking Timelapse Tour of North American Landscapes – Twisted Sifter Take me away please!
15 Instagrams of our favorite places in Germany – Matador Network Wow, just wow. Speechless!
The shocking differences in basic body language around the world Very educational!
The Best Chinese Food Restaurant in Every State Well, I guess maybe give these a try…Not sure how accurate these lists are. Probably not so much.
So How did a Company selling Rubber Tires become the World’s Authority on Restaurants? – MessyNessy I always wondered about this, now we know!
10 sweet, often-overlooked tax breaks – Yahoo Finance via Bankrate Maybe you can use some of these to save you some money…
Career Choices You Will Regret In 20 Years – Linkedin I really liked this short article…
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The coach falling off his chair with his son winning the game was priceless!
She’s grounding him (the trainer, that is).
Hard to change personal trainers after this lol.
That Chinese restaurant list is B.S……. for Oregon, everyone knows the places to go are HUNG FAR LOW or PHO KING GOOD.
Oh yes, can’t wait to have pho king good lol
Loved the Germany pics. I really miss going there several times a year. I have not seen the church in Ulm, but the cathedral in Cologne is massive. I remember driving towards the city on a clear day and you could easily see the spires from very far away. The 500+ stairs to the top are definitely a calf-buster. It is extremely tempting to book a European vacation this summer with the euro seemingly in a downward spiral.
Oh yeah the Cologne cathedral is indeed a magnificent site! Yep Europe is the place to go this summer!
What’s surprising to me is how many people clicked on the Pulaski Bank credit card link. Apparently there’s an unmet demand for information about Pulaski bank (hint hint, aspiring bloggers!)
I don’t believe it! Oh wait…I do. Shaking my head…
Agree with your views on the mistake fare this week. I saw it right away but all I could find was the old crappy side-by-side BIZ seats. Sorry but I’m not sure if they could pay me $452 to travel in glorified worn-out economy plus seats for a 15 hour trip around the world to a place that I have no interest in visiting. I’ll use my 3 weeks of vacation time per year to visit the places I want to go thank you. However, I see why it would be a big win for some folks though (chasing status, flexible schedule, bragging rights, etc).
I agree. I think bragging rights is a big factor. When one posts it…it can spread like wildfire and people may feel left out if they don’t get in on it. I thought this was one that spread like wildfire that it just did not deserve…And sometimes I wonder if some people have an actual life lol.
You mean the one whole day Frequent Miler gets to spend in China isn’t worth 30 hours in a crap seat travelling by himself?
Wonders never cease. But I guess it’s worth it to FM – good for a series of filler posts how mileage running isn’t dead and how status is still “worth it”.
It’s a job. This job requires content. Why do you think Delta Points keeps mileage running to Topeka KS and Duluth MN from some dinky airport in Indiana huh?
Apparently this blogger never heard of Google. Wow! Not sure I want to give him the “traffic” hit so the upshot is he didn’t know that Central Islip is not in Brooklyn and the court he was due to appear in Central Islip was different from the court in Brooklyn. Oy vey. This is why he Hates Central Islip.
http://thepointsoflife.boardingarea.com/i-hate-central-islip/
I never figured out what that blog is about…
Has anyone met Gary in real life and can confirm he is a creep? He, yet again, has posted a totally irrelevant story but it involves sex so post away. Why do I even have his blog in feedly? I can’t remember the last time he posted something worth reading.
Sex sells! The other day one found my site after googling “sri lankan whore” 🙂
I think the mistake fare thing was interesting also. I didn’t go for it as I didn’t like the birds AA flies, have no desire to go back to China and couldn’t find dates that allowed me two weeks to be in Asia other then China. I only will jump on mistake fares if I can make a vacation out of it and it is to somewhere I have an interest in going to. Otherwise, I pass.
I like your approach. A lot!