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Chart of Airline Award Fees by Travel is Free
The Top 25 Credit Cards by Mile Nerd
Ebates shopping portal earns 16% to celebrate its 16th birthday! Wow, 16 years online is like a century, they must be doing something right. I have never had problems with this shopping portal, EVER! And the post by Travel With Grant shows me something I did not know, the ebates cash back button. This is my ebates referral link in case you decide to sign up for an account, thank you!
Newbies: How to MS using Bluebird via Travel Codex Part of TBB’s mission is to educate. And this is an exceptionally well written blog post that newbies can learn from.
There was a lot of buzz (pun intended) about the DOT and its ruling on mistake fares. Sadly, some blog pumpers used it to sell more plastic to their readers which grossed me out. But of course you need to know what is going on and the best write up was the post by Cranky Flier.
Wyndham flood post alert follows, you have been warned!
Everyone is wrong about the Wyndham credit card. Here’s why – The Deal Mommy
Best Wyndham properties to use 15,000 points for a free night – Doctor of Credit
Is the Wyndham credit card worth it? – Miles to Memories
Flying jetpacks over Dubai in 4k via Twisted Sifter This is completely spectacular!!! Sadly no miles were earned with all this flying, boo! The skyline shots start at 6.30 if you want to fast forward.
Another incredible video, this one of creatures in the deep sea, some of them never seen before.
National Geographic’s 2015 Traveler Photo Contest
35 incredible unknown travel destinations. Well, not by this crowd but still a good list with great photos!
Decommissioned. “Andreana Scanderbeg and Alexander Sauer travelled to a secluded airport in California’s Mojave Desert to realise their DECOMMISSIONED project.” Cool photos of murdered airplanes, so sad.
Cost obsessions around the world. This is awesome! What people around the world googled to find out what cost most often? In the US, it was “patents”, in Brazil it was “Prostitute”, in Argentina “coke”, in Mexico “tummy tuck”. This is entertainment folks!
Unsolicited Advice for Everyone About to Graduate College – Motley Fool Excellent advice here.
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Every time Owen Wilson said “Wow“. Mega LOL
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I really enjoyed the “35 incredible unknown travel destinations”. I had no idea of the existence of synchronized lightning bugs. And I’m glad they included the Kalash people–they’re an outlier in that they’ve held on to some of the traditional Indo-European religion. It’s analagous to people in the modern-day Mediterranean still worshipping Zeus. Given current trends, who knows how much longer they’ll be able to hold on to their religion.
For anybody who’s interested in this stuff, scholars have tried to reconstruct the Proto-Indo-European religion that spawned, among other, the Greek, Norse, and Hindu pantheons:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_religion
Interesting, thanks for the feedback. I was born and raised next to Mt. Olympus. Zeus is all right 🙂
MMS does it again, posts to sign up for 5 Alaska Airlines at once. Anyone care to guess that this will finally get on that bank’s radar & get it killed? Don’t forget to get your tickets to see him live at FTU!!! U are the morons who patronize these enemies of our hobby by reading their crap, clicking their links and buying tickets to their presentations! IGNORE them! Friends dont let friends read MMS and the others on the TBB Ignore list!
But it’s ok when Frequent Miler does it for VS card? Where was your outrage when he was yapping about 4x VS cards?
It was not there 🙂
But you do have a point.
Bloggers will blog.
I still read FM. I don’t read MMS.
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So apparently there was a mistake fare to China. Great. So all those guys including
the bestest blogger fly there a few times for 1 or 2 days just to earn status so they can fly more
often to China for one day. Can someone explain me why this is “hot”?
It’s becoming so ridiculous I’m speechless. Flying for 20 or so hours every frickin day?!
How isn’t this becoming boring to death?
Rubbing you butt in a disgusting dirty seat full of germs and eating microwaved food
in a fresh 5% humidity recycled air cabin? What is wrong with people? What happened to
actual traveling, visiting places, learning other cultures? I guess they don’t feel any need for that…
“What happened to actual traveling, visiting places, learning other cultures?”
Selling that kind of lifestyle is not as lucrative and takes longer time to cash out on.
Hey, there are all kinds of people out there. We don’t like the same things. Apparently that blogger found an audience who likes what he blogs about. Just not for me. Ignore.
Think of it as earning status and miles which you then use to fly to exotic places? 😉
Please tell Angela to send more money to Greece, thanks!
Buzzy, how about “Thunderdoming” the comments by adding thumbs-up/down for each comment? I’d give Andrew above a big thumbs-up!
that will take infinite amounts of tech know how…we’ll do it right after we add a Facebook page and start a newsletter hehe
Maybe it is just me, but often when I read Travel Code X, I feel like it is an ad for Hyatt. I bet they take good care of him. imho No longer a relevant site. HT frugaltravelguys
Still is, just not as much. I said so in the latest “Update to Blogs I like” blog post
We now have the opportunity take the ultimate ego trip, the first “throw-and-shoot camera”. Yup this drone with a built in camera will follow you and record everything you do. Hopefully the NSA will be able to access them.
http://twistedsifter.com/2015/05/lily-worlds-first-throw-and-shoot-camera/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Twistedsifter+%28TwistedSifter+%29
Man, George, do people have opinions on Wyndham! The post is getting traffic rivaling Vendoming (without the crazy comments). Thanks for the shout out.