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Little America
A beautiful collection of real human stories from immigrants to the United States of America. All are great but the ones I singled out is the Syrian Shadi and Nigerian Igwe. The Indian Kunal may be the most wild…it involves a Ramada Limited hotel and all!
The Fall of Travis Kalanick Was a Lot Weirder and Darker Than You Thought
We all heard about some crazy stories with this guy. But you won’t believe what you will see when you click on the headline, it will shock you. Well, it actually will!
Really gripping story, kudos to investigative journalism. And yeah I watched the movie The Post recently and it was great!
The 50 Best Trails
Did you bookmark this baby? I sure did. I actually saved it in my Evernote vault. I should do something like setting a ridiculous goal one day before I get too old and go for it. Say hike the 50 Best Trails or something…
Which one is your favorite? Oh, am I becoming another lame blogger asking lame questions?
How I let drinking take over my life
This is a long and painful read. Haunting actually. You can learn a lot reading it from the addict point of view.
Just a short clip of what you are about to read if you choose so. It is your personal responsibility to click on anything actually. To be provided with misleading or clickbait links to pad my pocket will be irresponsible so we don’t do this here…unlike some other blogs. Ok, I better stop 🙂
When I try to explain my drinking problem, it goes like this: in my head, I was a moderate drinker, but after I’d had a drink, I wasn’t. The more I drank, the more I wanted to drink. Drinking increased my thirst. I wanted the second drink more than the first, and I wanted the fifth more than I’d wanted the fourth. My thirst always increased over the course of an evening. But it also increased, in a more subtle way, over the course of a month, a year, a decade. Drink added something, but it always seemed to subtract more than it added, and the only way I could get things back to normal was to drink more, and all this drinking began to wreck my mind. And then I’d stop, and I’d be sober for 120 days. Being sober felt great. So why did I always go back to drinking?
50 Years Ago in Photos: A Look Back at 1968
A collection of stunning photos from that monumental in importance year for your eyes only, enjoy!
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Come on – no mention of the TPG Z-list Shindig?! first, btw!
U referring to this?
https://twitter.com/FlyerTalkerinA2/status/956367258967793664
the horror, the horror
I can’t even imagine! Yech!
That outfit is worse that the sleeveless Sailor Suit he wore on one of his sale pitches.
Anyone who clicks on his app links to support his wasting of money on extravagant lifestyle is a fool.
George, why hasn’t a millennial do-gooder set up a point blog where the after expense credit card conversion proceeds go to good causes.
Not that the TravelbloggerBuzz Tuition Fund is not worthy in itself.
Cheers,
Stephen Toast (LHR)
The Toast of London
I think the Saverocity blogs do that. Or used to do so for a while. Not sure if they still do.
I still think the best thing you, the readers, can do is support the blogs you want to see them keep going…Because, at some point, they tend to give up you know…
The 50 Best Trails article doesn’t have a way to navigate, I’m stuck on 1-5! Unless I’m just completely missing it.
Keep scrolling, they are all there on that page!
Found your comment in the Spam folder…not sure why it went there, sorry.
The Uber piece was fabulous. What I knew motivated me to switch to Lyft and I knew so little.
I enjoyed it too…I bet you that he will be back
Thanks to reader who got an AA card with my links. You are #2.
All these apps left on the table. Don’t sell so early guys and leave so many conversions on the table #money
I am getting a second monitor today, livinglarge!
I am still traumatized by TPG’s outfits WTF!
Gucci man head to toe!
Do you think that Gilbert comment was a troll or the real dude? He says some asinine things about NYC tourism sometimes, but always finds really good creative commons pics to use and somehow gets me to click!
I can’t say 100% sure but it sounded like him…
I pass so many people each day living on the streets of PDX, it is an epidemic here. Seeing this (Points)guy blow his dough like that makes me ill. Shame on him.
Oh boy…one of the most hideous things about the blogosphere is how bloggers now try to outcompete for your attention with even more ridiculous clickbait headlines containing truly mornoic useless “content”….
Watch out for posts about hot soup #warning
The 1968 pictures are incredible.
The My Lai massacre pic is just too hard to digest. When they say war is hell, well, it really is.
Another great one is the one depicting Bill English. For those who haven’t read about it, he presented what’s now called “The mother of all demos”. That guy essentially made a presentation with tools that wouldn’t be really available until the 80s in many cases. First time I watched I was almost sure it was just a modern demo made look old.
I almost posted the My Lai one but it was soooo hard to digest, pulled it at the last moment and went with the easy Earth shot.
Nice story about Bill English, I did not know about it, thanks.
To all:
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The AMEX Hilton Honors Ascend card for 100k HH points just became available with my links!
I also added the Citi ThankYou Premier for 30k points…if there is a better offer for this one let me know and I will delete.
Thank you.
Nice trails link, except omission of the Colorado Trail, inclusion of “jeep trails” (?!!), and a really bad website. Perhaps the “Men” should hire a couple of women to fix it?
Good links this week!
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