We lean about points transfers to airlines by alliance, travel to Mauritius and frozen Lake Michigan, marvel at awesome icebergs & a brief return of Blog Buzz…
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Evaluating point transfers to airlines by alliance – The Free-quent Flyer Excellent reference.
Evolve keeps evolving, this time adding 3% to bill paying with Visa, Mastercard and Discover. Seriously? Let me do a, wait for it, yaaaaaawn!
Getting To Mauritius With Frequent Flyer Miles – Miles To The Wild If you ever wanted to burn some miles to Mauritius…read this.
Paddleboarding through an insane ice floe on Lake Michigan – Matador Network This is a MUST see! The scenery of Lake Michigan is breathtaking…Epic!
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015 – The Atlantic These are so stunning I have no words to describe! For some reason I can not post the pic directly here. I still can’t get my head around this one at Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia.
Rare and surreal images of recently-flipped icebergs – Matador Network These are so surreal indeed. Wow to the nth degree! Please check them out. It reminds me an X-Files episode, the last TV show I watched!
Things Every Man Should Have in His Car: An Illustrated Guide – The Art Of Manliness Probably should be renamed the list of things every man should have in his card but just doesn’t!
10 financial steps that will set you up for 2015 – CNBC Not a big fan of this company but this is a really good article!
Entering BLOG BUZZ area, please wear your helmets. I wear my protective suit to get the eggs thrown at me by angry Titan bloggers deflected! Please note that this section is for long time miles hobbyists and is for entertainment only. If you are new please feel free to skip it. We like to expose the unvarnished truth around here! Don’t be a Tool!
Crap Points, Miles & Martinis has sold in the past few days with affiliate links never disclosed in the body of posts: Luggage with Samsonite, Target with Redbirds (two posts, one of them sold the Delta Reserve card not once but FOUR times!!!!).
Priceless: Watching Milevalue sell the Uber link…and could not help but blast the Barcaly Arrival link at the end. If the site had direct Chase links you can be assured it will be listed too!
The Points Guy posted the Top 10 Credit Cards for February. Only this corporation can squeeze 28 plastic links into a Top 10 post, wow! Note: Half of these are offered here by moi and compensate me! Full Disclosure: It is much less than that corporation gets! #itsokay
I can’t believe Frequent Miler is writing so much about 1800Flowers. So much energy and money wasted on ridiculously expensive “food” on a vendor that is almost up there as…Cartera! #nothanks
Only Million Mile Secrets can take “news” such as Evolve Money starting to finally add a % fee on credit card payments to a headline like this “Evolve Money Now Accepts Visa and MasterCard…but There’s a Catch!” <——- Wow, a catch! Make sure to catch this one at the next Frequent Traveler University for amazing secrets like this! <——Titanic exclamation mark #dealwithit
It is amazing to me how much “content” can be repeated at The Frugal Travel Guy selling the same cards over and over…Oh, catch this one on tour too! #expertsNOT!
Delta Points reviewed a 767-300 seat. Deep. Wow! I know you guys were just waiting for something like this…smh.
Breaking News: The Points Guy just learned that United is pricing partner awards at the lower levels. What the hell is the staff doing these days? Oh, what? Busy massaging the credit card links? You.Don’t.Say!
Million Miles Secrets posted how you can spend less time in your Global Entry interview. I bet my deflating balls that pumping all the cards that can get you this “benefit” had absolutely nothing to do with posting this! *&^%$*
Mommy Points was so super nice to let her readers know that they can now choose their own 3x category with the Amex Business Gold Rewards card. Apparently could not help but show readers how to go for a 25k Membership Rewards points offer. And this is how Titans screw readers and some human beings get angry that some of us dislike these sh*tty practices. Sorry almost lost it. Lets keep going, shall we?
Frugal Travel Guy, in a brilliantly innovative move, appears to have come out of left field (or right, depending on your political affiliation or which side you fell asleep last night) and instituted a new series. Please hold your excitement and sit down as this one will totally shock you. Ladies and gentlemen, FTG has come out with…are you still sitting down? You are? Good! Please look above you to make sure the chandelier is outside your velocity (or reach, or whatever you call it, we always sucked at science back in school). Ok, here it’s the title of the new series featured here: TOP 10 CREDIT CARDS – FEBRUARY 2015. OOOOOOH MYYYYYY GOOOOOOD! After landing from jumping way too high…we just realized that such list is awfully familiar! Wait a minute, it’s the same as the other plastic monthly lists. And then you realize, if you are a newbie and been reading these blogs for a few months that, maybe, just maybe you were a Tool! I am about to get angry right now so I practice deep breathing and head straight to the area where I keep the wine and pop one open. Hey, $3.99 at Trader Joe’s. With my old Amex Blue Cash earning 5% back #dealwithit #takeFirstFirday&shoveitUTitan!
Another exercise of luxury blogging masturbating action….American Airlines amenity kits. Seriously? I guess this is the type of stuff that gets panties wet. We yawn…I never understood this infatuation with amenity kits. Or Channel 9 for that matter. Or Krug….Whatever!
I continue my moronic crusade against pumping bloggers. I immediately impose an embargo against blogs that feature links to the blogs in the Ignore list. This will have an immediate effect of reducing their credit card clicking by 1/15678th % but it will make me feel so much better in the morning at Panera sipping my hazelnut coffee. I am keeping mental score now which blogs in my two good lists do that and the “winner” is off the list #shitjustgotreal.
This is just so so cruel…
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First!
First to point out that with the ice mentions, you’d be safe and warm if you were in LA // California Dreamin’ on such a winter’s day
Which means 2nd, apparently
Can I still claim first if there’s actually 28 in a top 10?
Among the foist.
On my Twitter feed I received this sponsored tweet from Boarding Area blog The Forward Cabin. I instantly threw up in my mouth.
“@TheForwardCabin: Do you want to learn how to stay in 5-star hotels and fly in First Class for little to no money? Follow me to find out!”
So many so many….Recently saw a pic with Randy and an award for 1k (sounds like a United elite). I guess that is how cases of plagiarism are handled there…
Oh. Dear. God.
Where’d you see the pic?
Facebook. Either on the RP or Boarding Area feed I think.
Used your Uber referral. Enjoy a second cup of coffee at Panera!
I just sat down with my foist cup! Thank you!
A while back you had a link to a site called reward flyer. The site pretty much sells credit cards the way bloggers do. Except they did something I’ve never seen anyone do before. Via a FB promotion they agreed to pay the taxes on domestic flights if you had applied for cards through their links. They already offer a free search engine and award booking service, so not sure how deep their pockets run. I understand they must be making money off credit card links, but I see cards which other bloggers don’t even mention – like the UA Biz 50K!
Yeah, I remember that one. Never went back. Surprised to see them not get nailed by the banks yet!
To the Top 4: You are foist in my book!
If you think it’s hard getting to Mauritius with miles, try Madagascar! Thanks for the shout out, George.
Two words: Flying Blue. They are running a promo from CDG right now.
Actually that’s how I got OUT of Madagascar. Flying Blue on KQ TNR-NBO-ACC. I should be getting to that part of the trip in a few weeks after I blog the Madagascar section. I’m almost done with Mauritius.