We do our best to get you on Singapore Airlines First Class, bring you an awesome resource Passport Index, visit Europe waterfalls, a resource page on visiting Singapore, some travel innovations, climb Eiffel Tower, laugh about Trump at RNC, cry over Venezuelans’ plight, the best personal finance post as usual, see awesome pics of how some cities have changed, & so much more for you!
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The new IHG Rewards Pointbreaks list is out HERE. Each night is only 5,000 IHG Rewards points, book fast! Here is some advice for booking them.
How to book Singapore Airlines First Class With Miles & Unlock Better Availability. One day….every time I think of all the places I can visit blowing so many miles…I change my mind doing this.
DEM Flyers does a “Trip Suggestions” feature that can help some of you visiting certain places. Up next: Singapore.
This appeared in “Financial Advisor” magazine: “10 Travel Innovations Totally Changing The Game“. Well, I am not sure about the “totally” part but there are indeed some interesting things mentioned here. I almost stopped reading after #2 “Redeeming your miles just got easier”. Exsqueeze me? It mentions an Expedia plugin called 30k that “ Instead of just seeing that a flight from New York City to Tokyo costs $677, for instance, you’ll also see that it costs 1,117 award miles.” Sounds like a great plugin to me #NOT!
This is awesome. Bookmark it. Passport Index. Played with it for my two passports and was correct every time! You are welcome. I could be massaging/pumping/selling/promoting/monetizing/whoring but I prefer to find useful content for YOU!
What happens when you illegally climb the Eiffel Tower and you launch a drone, amazing footage!
As you probably know by now, I can not stand Donald Trump. This is how I would react if I was chosen to introduce Trump in the Republican National Convention. The Onion is a national treasure, it is a required visit to enhance the quality of your life via…laughter! Warning: Major F bomb rant contained within!
Ok, this is going to make you stop laughing. And start crying for what is happening to people in Venezuela. “My Venezuela Nightmare: A 30-Day Hunt for Food in a Starving Land“. So, please excuse me while I barf when I see you complain your pre departure drink in First Class is a bit late you jackass! Hey, I was told to be more nasty at the 2016 Ann Arbor Art Fair DO so I always listen to my readers lol.
Personal Finance blog post of the day: This Bull Market is Powered by Your Indifference. Please never ask me “Is this a good time to get into the market” or “Where do you think the market is going?”. I don’t waste my time making useless predictions, I only make one and I am always right: “It will fluctuate” #highfive
Port-la-Nouvelle, France. Purple Rain. Photograph by Maxime Raynal.
The 17 best waterfalls in Europe that tourists never heard of. Well, not sure about the “never heard of” part but they sure look great!
13 before and after photos that show how much our world has changed. Dubai below. Wow!
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I still have leftovers from my part last Friday night, yes!
Thanks for all the positive feedback for my blog and what I am doing here. And you are welcome as well for visiting my house, it was my pleasure to host it!
Mile Nerd has some links with data point results of Chase credit cards apps & results for cards not subject to 5/24, check them out.
Contrary to popular opinion, me and Drew of Travel Is Free are in good terms.
You will never see blog posts here about airliner incidents, anti TSA rants, flight reviews, blatant credit card sales, etc. I do not want to waste your time!
Did you like the live blogging of the Ann Arbor Art Fair DO I did? If I had more clicks, I could be going to other conferences and do this for you. I think I enjoyed it. Especially when I typed that comment about my wife’s shoes fitting in a separate bag lol. #hint
Anyone care to guess how long Gift Card Mart’s 5x on on Ultimate Rewards for gift cards will last? My guess: Not long!
Star Trek is pretty good. Not spectacular.
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GOLDEN SHOWERS!!!!
Congrats…
I guess…
On the podium finally. Silver!
Survive the crazy storm last night in Chicago. Also survived having a restaurant glass door slam shut behind me and shattered into a million pieces.
Congrats. You are living dangerously it appears, keep surviving!
That passport index is a great find! They just need to add a filter for green card holder (because, you know, US is the center of the world). Changes things, e.g., Canada.
I think adding that will require extra work…Maybe suggest it to them?
Already did
Another fine effort, Buzz.
In my semi-lucid moments, I think of a drone project along the lines of “Above Costa Rica” (or Nicaragua). Unfortunately that sounds too much like w*rk! Maybe if I had won a drone in a contest?
Happy Monday — the DNC looks like it will be another #ClownShow like last week’s RNC. Just watched DWS melt down on live TV. Interesting times indeed!
#TBBon
When I win another drone I will give it away here 😉
These conventions totally turn me off, they are repulsive!
Im gonna watch. this one is gonna be an epic trainwreck. So much anger and hatred. The disfunction is running wild.
I am still laughing on that Onion video I posted…That actor is awesome!
If the Dems can’t beat Trump…well, we deserve it then 🙂
That’s it in a nutshell for me. The Dems could have run a cardboard cutout of a dead mouse and beat the crap out of the orange buffoon. Instead we get #PantSuitonFire who will pander to pigeons if she thinks they will vote.
My only hope (and maybe the only hope for America) is that neither of these foolios (technical term I learned waaaay back in PoliSci courses) win enough electoral votes and the whole thing gets thrown to the House. ANYONE they choose (weelll except maybe Cruz and Bernie) would be better than these two puffed-up, overstuffed pieces of mierda.
/rant (only temporarily)
Jeez, GL, you pretty much hoped for a long shot with your “not-enough-electoral-college-votes” gambit, followed by a 2nd longshot of “let’s -also-ignore-the-runner-ups”.
You seem like a guy who believes in long odds!!
Just caught a few mins and can’t believe these Bernie Sanders people saying it is not over and crap like that…Wow!
I am a lifelong San Diego Padres fan too.
Personally, I miss Pat Paulsen for President.
#IamwithDukakis
Bronze! Agree about FC. Done it before, on SQ… For the miles, I’ll take biz on ANA or LH and keep the extra for 1/2 a OW biz. I can do w/o the caviar… Hope AA is cooling down…
We agree on this…
It’s a little better today in Ann Arbor, phew!
On that example, which they still have up: I would pay 1,117 award miles instead of $677 for New York to Tokyo every day of the week and twice on Sundays.
NB: We have no interest in going to Tokyo at the moment.
Yeah…1,117 miles, what a bargain!
Now, America is an easy place to get to.
But for you first-time voters, it’s important for you to know what it means to be an American. It doesn’t mean getting free stuff. It means sacrificing. Winning. Losing. Failing. Succeeding. And sometimes doing the things you don’t want to do — including the hard work — in order to get where you want to be. And that’s what it means to be an American.
But folks, our country right now is in a very bad spot. You can feel it. And you can see it everywhere. There’s no stability. Nothing seems right. And all the things that we hold dear are being attacked every single day.
We cannot go down this road anymore.
We need to stop.
We need Donald Trump to fix this.
Is Donald Trump a messiah? No. He’s just a man — a man who wants to give back to his country: America — the country that has given him everything. A country that has also given all of us so much. And now it’s time to give back to her.
We have a choice in November. We can go for Hillary Clinton, who wants to continue the same policies that are wrecking this country. Policies that make us unsafe. A woman who somehow that feels she’s entitled to the presidency — that she’s somehow owed it. Or we can go for Donald Trump, a man doing this from the goodness of his heart and genuinely wants to help. A man who knows how to get things done. A man who says what he means, and means what he says.
Hillary Clinton wants to be president for Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump wants to be president for all of us.
So, of course, let’s make America great again. But let’s make America America again.
Thank you all so much.
God bless. Go Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYNxL7Rqd6U
They both make me want to projectile vomit.
If either one wins, I’m moving to Costa Rica!
umm, well, ok… been there, did that…
If nothing else, they both provide endless rounds of “entertainment’ when not vomiting profusely!
Donald Trump may be a Clown as Buzz’ says, but he is My Clown!
Donald Trump may be lying and exaggerating but we know that.
He supports the cops not the criminals and trouble makers, he has my vote.
Ramsey, former Obama apologist. Dude lost me when he invited BLM to White House.
I had never heard of that Happy Days actor… #seriously?
Not sure why all the doom & gloom? I think we are doing great and we need to keep America great 🙂
Anyways, I despise all politicians, professional liars by trade. Trump is a dangerous buffoon. In a sign of true democracy, you end up voting for the one who sucks less. In this case, I will hold my nose and vote for Hillary…
Who gets excited about the Ameriprise gold card with a 25K MR offer?
https://www.reddit.com/r/churning/comments/4ufxyf/amex_gold_card_for_ameriprise_25k_mr1k_spend/
This is huge, honestly, I was not aware it existed! Thank you for posting this link, it’s like finding $250 on the floor. Gracias!
Cheers,
PedroNY
Why don’t you see stuff like that posted in The Points Guy website…oh, wait…Lol.
Thanks ABC, new one to me too.
2,500 SPG points after adding an AU in yr SPG Amex:
http://www.dansdeals.com/archives/92189
Thanks! can’t say no to 5000 free spg points 😉
Oh, yes i found that what i want, thanks for your stunning work.
I wish my looks were stunning as well 🙂
Brian Williams, a respected news anchor was caught for “inaccurate statements”
about his helicopter story in Afghanistan in 2003. He was fired and put to shame.
Hillary Clinton lied about her “landing under sniper fire in Bosnia” several times,
changing the story and making it more dramatic every time. She will be our next president.
I’m really embarrassed showing my US passport now.
Always comes down to the lesser of two evils…
I just don’t want a guy who brags about his penis and screams “Look at his small hands” and other absurdities…
Showing US passport? I am not sure anything can be MORE embarrassing than this narcissist egomaniac!
Hey, I can show my other passport so…there 🙂
Why aren’t you defending her using some positive facts about her
instead of saying “he’s worse”? Because there is nothing positive to say about her?
This drives me nuts, why is it such horrible choice?
Because, clearly…he’s worse 🙂
I know, it is sad. Her suits always turned me off, so polished, she will say anything for a vote…
I just never liked her man. She just comes off as arrogant!
Do I trust her with nuke codes instead of Trump? Yes!
#democracy 🙂
I thought it was more of “She is a Democrat Candidate” which was why you were voting for her. Your politcal posts certainly hang to the left. I know saying “He so dangerous sounds better” Im just not sure if she is truly a lesser of two evils.