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TRAVEL
Award Mapper. You want to search for hotels in a destination and want to use hotel points. Use this site and it gives you the hotels and the points required. Brilliant! Bookmarked it and used it already. Not sure how I missed this, I should visit Milepoint more often, check it out! Not a finished product but oh so helpful!
TSA PreCheck Airports and Locations. By Airlines. Great table. Found at Efficient Asian Man.
Cambodia by Bike. By Tasting Travels. Daily life pics in Cambodia, wow.
Pigeon Point Lighthouse. Twisted Sifter‘s picture of the day
I always enjoy reading the Airline Biz Blog of the Dallas News. Every Friday Terry Maxon posts “3 idle thoughts” which are always interesting and sometimes very funny. Like this one: “New Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport CEO Sean Donohue worked 24 years at United Airlines, so he should be very familiar with managing in a non-profit organization.” – Lol!
Well, more problems with the Dreamliner. I am not that eager to fly it you know.
MILES/POINTS
Were you NOT targeted for Summer 2013 bonus Hyatt Gold Passport points? Per this post by Loyalty Lobby, you could give them a call and ask to sign up or even choose the bonus you want. ymmv
Everybody on Twitter was freaking out because of a tweet by United about a new Rewards experience coming soon. I even thought about cashing all my miles before they became Skymilized! Later in the day United came out with some exclusive arrangement to earn some miles with Mercedes Benz. I thought about inquiring if I can get some free miles driving my free Benz! Was that it or was CEO Smisek (Delta lover) warming up to some more devaluations?
ON MY MIND
Got the 50k for the Southwest Business card. Burned 20k for a night at the Grand Rapids Hilton for Mrs. TBB to go see our daughter dancing away at a dance camp. Many years ago I stayed in this hotel and I was “Guest of the Day” with sign and all, it was pretty cool.
ODDZ & ENDZ
40 Inspiration of Wildlife Photography. WOW!
Long Exposure Photographs of Waves by David Orias. South California waves…and yes, they are real!
This guy will surely break legs soon, Wow!
Ok, if you are going to read this, please sit down. Have some Kleenex available because I do not see how you are not going to get emotional. A gripping and heart breaking profile of Jeff Bauman, the Boston Marathon kid whose tragic picture we all will never forget.
BLOG BUZZ
Note: This section is intended for long time readers and miles/points addicts who follow the blogs in this space. Readers not familiar with this crazy hobby could skip this section!
Bloggers are appearing everywhere! Even in a land like Canada with no huge signup credit card bonuses:-)
Travel Summary posted his five favorite blogs. Nothing surprising. Reading the comments sometimes amazes me how different are the perspectives of others in this hobby! A person commented how Milevalue does not push credit cards, excuse me? Hey AgendaGuy, you should take a look there too. I am not the only MMS lover out there, get off my back, will ya?
And let me leave you with this classic:
First. Finally!
Welcome Back where you belong, Number 1!
It always helps that you post before my bedtime 😉
3rd! Don’t know why a computer game is exciting, lets see a real chap do that, it’s all in the contraction…like the flamingo, don’t like Bronze.
I prefer Gold myself:-)
Cannot seem to guess the right time for George’s post …. Thanks.
I need to keep you guys guessing to increase my hits lol
Fifth. I’ll fly with that.
You can do better!
A person commented how Milevalue does not push credit cards, excuse me? Hey AgendaGuy, you should take a look there too. ………………………………and stay there.
Where is Agenda Guy? Did he go there and stayed there?:-)
We can only hope?…………………. Better yet, he got abducted by aliens or Scientologist.
The KTVU apology is pathetic! This incident shows you that talking heads reading the news are empty heads…..Lucky VFTW should take down this 7/12 post. Could you imagine the backlash if this happened to another persuasion?
Yeah, that was crazy. Obviously someone screwed up. I never like to pour it on when these things happen
In a very understated way (there are only 3 comments on the post, including TBB’s!), VFTW seems to have broken some pretty significant news today… I’m off to visit me some convenience stores!!
Well…it is not VFTW. It’s the site he linked to. New site, wanting to increase traffic, posts something that is better for ALL if it was not posted so it can last LONGER…check how the site has the “Credit Cards” page ready “Coming soon”…
Everything done is for the cc links
TBB, telling it like it is and doing it all for the love of it all…what an idiot:-)
Yeah, it’s funny that the blog literally has one post and nothing else on the site.
I guess that’s the easy way to get some quick traffic to a site that otherwise has nothing to offer.
And I guess now the more I think about it… why would Gary be following a site like that? A site that literally has nothing else besides that one single blog entry about VRs.
>>>>>>I guess that’s the easy way to get some quick traffic to a site that otherwise has nothing to offer.
I think you may be on to something;-)
on Mr. Pickles new “in the news section”:
I dont think anyone will ever love mr. pickles as much as he loves himself.
guy needs an ego check.
MrPickles has not posted in July yet. He posted twice in June. Lame.
Yeah, he needs to post more!
Thanks for getting me to take a look at Award Mapper, a site that I had heard of but never checked out.
That said, I realize it’s still in beta but the 1st award (Marriott ANC)I looked at was wrong. 🙁
The map showed the 2012 rates & not the new rates that were announced & became effective earlier this year
I should have specified that it is still in beta, definitely not a finished product! So much promise…I like how I can get an initial read of all my award options and THEN I can zero in to specific awards. Having to do this at each site individually was killing me!!
Thanks for the plug in Milepoint too!
where is our troll.. he must have finally taken some anti depressant and we aren’t buying his shady practices
I hope he is okay. Site traffic is down:-)
Which Troll?