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I don’t think I ever had to use the travel insurance benefit feature of the premium travel rewards credit cards. I do think about it when I rent cars and want to have primary insurance but that’s about it. Here is a comparison of the benefit between Amex Platinum, Chase Sapphire Reserve and Citi Prestige. I am surprised the Prestige does so well.
Nice quality travel blogging here: Impressions from Chernihiv, Ukraine.
The tech startup scene in Greece is tiny. Two of them are creating some buzz in the travel industry. Hotels actually. Tourismart app helps communication between hotel guests and staff. Zootle is an app that creates free wifi hotspots and logs you in without having to remember passwords. Best of luck to the entrepreneurs, being one inside Greece is NOT easy!
I like to share some travel videos often here. But this Iceland video is probably the best!
You will be hearing this a lot soon. Recent history of the Debt Limit, an interactive perspective. This is pretty cool, the interactive features I mean.
Are you kidding me? We know all the craziness with all things weed in the US lately. But this one takes the cake brownie. First cannabis gym to open in the US. The only gym apparently where you stop for a break and go full attack on Doritos lol.
I think this is a great business idea! Screw (pun intended) AirBNB. How about KinkBNB instead! I should have probably checked with them about a referral link and then pump it to you guys…but my mind just does not go there. What can I say, my marketing sucks. Ok, lets get back into this. Book your stay and get beat up (if that is your thing) in a nice place, which means you will have to forego that nice suite upgrade in a Hyatt. Oh wait, that is only reserved for Globalist elites now bwahahaha.
Love this type of posts…Life in Kyrgyzstan, 26 Years After the Collapse of the Soviet Union.
The world’s unbanked population. Fascinating charts!
| Country | % of population with an account | Country | % of population with an account |
| Turkmenistan | 1.80% | Slovenia | 97.20% |
| Central African Republic | 3.30% | Spain | 97.60% |
| Yemen, Rep. | 6.50% | Estonia | 97.70% |
| Niger | 6.70% | Switzerland | 98.00% |
| Guinea | 7.00% | Belgium | 98.10% |
| Burundi | 7.10% | Germany | 98.80% |
| Madagascar | 8.60% | Australia | 98.90% |
| Afghanistan | 10.00% | United Kingdom | 98.90% |
| Iraq | 11.00% | Canada | 99.10% |
| Tajikistan | 11.50% | Netherlands | 99.30% |
| Cameroon | 12.20% | New Zealand | 99.50% |
| Djibouti | 12.30% | Sweden | 99.70% |
| Chad | 12.40% | Denmark | 100% |
| Pakistan | 13.00% | Finland | 100% |
| Egypt, Arab Rep. | 14.10% | Norway | 100% |
| Burkina Faso | 14.40% |
Your petty problems about your phucking amenity kit, pre-departure drink and first class cookie sound so douche baggy when you look at what happened to Houston! The Unprecedented Flooding in Houston, in Photos.
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This is a good history lesson of the birdie glory MS days of this hobby…
As expected, Singapore Airlines becomes an Alaska Airlines partner.
To all: Mega tech issues I am dealing with these days. Not sure wtf is going on…Sorry no time for the comments, consider each post a miracle until we get back to normal. It may be a while…#developing.
Amex agent told me that to be an authorized user on a card the minimum age is 15. Great timing as my daughter just turned 15. 2,500 SPG points for “spending” $1,000 on her AU SPG card to come shortly. The 10,000 Hilton points from ‘spending” $1k in her AU Surpass card should be on their way now…
I had an email from Randy Petersen. I thought it was a multi zero offer to join Boarding Area #notreally. But it was him letting me know that someone told him I did something really bad. Which of course it was NOT my intention! Let me explain further: In one of my most high traffic blog posts, A Deep Dive into the Miles and Points Blog Space, me and my daughter spent hours researching trying to zero in to the high turnover in the blog space. I used the phrase “dead” to indicate a blog that was not current and I made sure to indicate that it was basically not current for whatever reason. I should have used the word “inactive” perhaps I think.
Because one of them, Darren Booth of Frequently Flying, did pass away. And I feel so horrible about that. I knew Darren personally, he was one of the most kind souls and, this is news for some of you here, he was the first blogger to reach out to tell me how much he enjoyed reading my blog and how “we need your voice”. It was at an FTU event, I still remember it to this day, you never forget that! When I think of quitting I think of Darren telling me “we need your voice”. I made the change in the file as soon as I read this after I punched myself hard! To all and to Darren’s family, please accept my deepest apologies.
The person who noticed it could have written to me directly. Maybe he/she wanted to make a point to Randy what a horrible person I am? Sad!
And I leave you with this…When you combine smart phones, selfies and drones:
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Buenos dias. Sad to hear the news about Darren. RIP
We need your voice. Amen.
what for? Whining? “douche baggy” comments about “it’s my blog and I can do what I want”?
He only keeps it running for the credit card link money. Nothing else.
And it was born to point to this ugly behavior by other blogs…
There is nothing going on in the world of miles and points, it’s dead. Why do we need
a small blog with a few weird links every day? I don’t give a cr@p about sex robots…
Out for good.
Bye, Felicia
I agree with Dml
“Out for good”.
Promises, promises.
He’ll be back
#sameold
I wouldn’t feel bad about it at all. You compiled a pretty massive amount of info and while I fondly remember him, the name of the blog wouldn’t have stood out to me among such a list (let’s face it so many blog titles in this field are pretty similar). Even if it had, I wouldn’t have made the leap to someone being offended by it.
It was clear what sense you were using “dead blogs” and that there was no intent to offend.
Too bad Randy doesn’t take the time to worry about addressing real issues that are within the control of his business enterprises rather than Rene, I mean one person, being offended by something innocent.
Randy is silly. You can’t be this sensitive in the Trump era. His time is better spent fighting Nazis
Jesus christ, talk about a stretch to be offended. Seriously, this is not something for you to even waste a second feeling bad about. It was more than 100% what you meant. Screw em.
I should have caught that, I still feel bad about it. But I’ll get over it…
If you want to read about Greek travel cheating (sorry ‘hacking), google ‘airfasttickets’. So what if you used the phrase ‘dead’ and a blogger happened to have passed away. Puhlease.
The current mess in Houston is in part self inflicted. The greater Houston area was developed in a libertarian way and many natural reservoirs just filled and a sub division put on it. No doubt the rainfall was unprecedented (according to Ann Coulter more because of the mayor than global warming) but some of it could have been managed better with long term urban development.
Houston is one of the most poorly developed places anywhere and this is the effect of that. Sadly, across the South, many natural barriers have eroded and the “free-market-for-all” and “damn-the-environment” crowd is now begging for government money so they can rebuild until the next devastation.
Hurricane Katrina in 2005 would have been a perfect reminder to review flood plans and determine if an area should be developed or not. And then require flood insurance in the most reasonable areas. Now the republican leadership will again bail out another part of the economy. No strings attached. This one will cost more than Katrina (>$100B).
Learning more about Houston’s development…
No bueno…
But still so much freaking water to come down, it’s like the gates opened…
Too bad Randy isn’t upset by plagiarism.
I read that somewhere before
Update:
Desktop PC problems are due to a bad hard disk.
Good: At least we know the cause. Ordering new hardware as soon as feasibly possible.
Bad: Oh phuck, very disruptive.
At least I know what is ahead now and that is a relief. I was due for a new machine. I got many good years out of this baby.
Not sure about post tomorrow, I ll try.
Thank you for reading, and wish me luck 🙂
LEAVE RANDY ALONE! He was having a bad day, okay MF. His inbound flight from IAH was delayed 20 minutes, the flight attendant on his flight didn’t warm up his cookie and his amenity kit had a pen that did not write. To top it off his hair stylist quit and moved back to Uzbekistan. SO GET OFF RANDY’S BACK!
Please, continue use dead. Phuck the politically correct nimrods that infest this space.
I think Randy’s ok, and his contacting George was appropriate if it was a ‘you should know’ and not ‘Hey, buddy’. And George’s response was top notch too-innocent oversight with apologies.
Yes Sam, it was a “you should know”. We are in good terms. I still hope it was like a big time player without a contract and him offering me one to move to his (BA) team but nope….Maybe I should check my Google Analytics and get going on that seo thingie soon 🙂
Thanks.
Just ordered me a kick ass computer that will hopefully last me at least 10 years like this fallen one…
TBB will be back.
Tomorrow.
And then Monday you guys #weekendsarebacklikeMileNerd