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If you missed my report from an Amex private event at MGM Detroit full of luxury cars, here it is again, enjoy!
Today is the last day to apply online for the best travel rewards credit card out there, the Chase Sapphire Reserve card that offers a 100k signup bonus. After today the signup bonus online goes down to 50k points, boo! Please consider applying through the link of a blogger who adds value and puts your interests first. Remember that you can still get the 100k bonus at your local Chase branch until March 12. If a blogger keeps screaming about the “amazing” 50k bonus without mentioning how to get the 100k bonus, well, you are probably dealing with a greedy asshole, why are you reading them huh?
What you need to know about the end of the 100k Chase Sapphire Reserve bonus ending today online.
After splurging finally for an Amex Platinum cardholder private event this past weekend which me and my wife really enjoyed (we don’t get out much so this was a lovely time!), it is time to catch up with what’s buzzing. I guess we can finally transfer Virgin America Elevate points to Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan Miles. The transfer ratio is 1 Virgin America to 1.3 Alaska Airlines, very nice. Here is the LINK to do it. And there is a nice offer if you were one of the three people out there with Elevate accounts and no Alaska Mileage Plan account!
Did you get 10,000 Alaska Airlines miles? Apparently, all of us did who have Virgin America Elevate accounts. Well, so far I got one two 10k sets, still looking for another 20k for my kids. Very nice Alaska Airlines, miles I guess can grow on trees…oh wait, lets not go there! #waiting But does it make sense to make this transfer? Well, it did for us as we barely had 3k of Elevate points anyway, no big deal. Looking forward to delete four accounts in my Award Wallet program, thinning the herd lol!
Ok, final one on this merger. A deeper dive into the Alaska Airlines award chart and how to book Virgin America award flights.
I guess you can now go to Belarus without a visa. If you insist I guess.
Where should you visit in Uganda as a tourist. Just in case you go!
As we get older trying to figure things out….I think this article made a lot of sense to me. Neuroscience confirms that to be truly happy, you will always need something more. Especially this part:
“…the act of seeking itself, rather than the goals we realize, is key to satisfaction.”
“The innate human desire to seek means that we can never truly feel that every desire and wish has been met. There will never be an end to the to-do list, future goals and plans, the things we want to achieve and see. But the fact that we don’t have everything we want is exactly what makes life so fulfilling.”
There are some really weird expressions all over the world people use to describe their relationship with money. Do Germans really say “To live like a maggot in bacon?”, wtf!
Your personal finance fix. Well, this is what you need to do to protect yourself from income tax scams. It’s wild out there, file early!
The beauty of Greenland. Actually, I can use me some hot beach right about now #Michigan
Most heartwarming historic photos ever. We like to inspire sometimes around here…
BLOG BUZZ
This section is for advanced level hobbyists, the miles addicts in other words, the hopeless…
There is a direct 60k Chase Southwest Business Premier card offer out there. I see all the pumping blogs are screaming about it hey?
5 Tips Before You Use Your British Airways Avios. No pics and arrows in Drew’s posts but some awesome award chart finds.
The Free-quent Flyer tells us that the world is full of nice people trying to give you advice. Come on, tell us how you reeeeeally feel 🙂
Some of you like these Air France Flying Blue up to 50% off award promos, here is the January batch for awards from March 1 to April 30.
Well, goes down another one, no more 5 Back giftcarding them at CVS. We’ll not blame The Points Guy for this one 🙂
I decided to keep Southwest as the airline choice for the Amex Platinum credit for my wife (as she won’t be renewing it) and I went for Delta for mine because, well, Detroit #diversify.
And I leave you with this…
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I was thinking of starting a ScottCastleGroupie fan club but not sure now…
#fading
I’d like to give a shout out to my crying 2 year old for my victory today. Somehow he only needs 6 hours of sleep lately…
If your comments does not show up when you post, it got caught up in the spam blocker, let me know!
I dived into the spam blocker and found 3 comments I marked as non spam, two by Sam yesterday in the luxury cars post. He breaks out another monetization move by Award Wallet, to pay for comments, WTF! This will be mentioned in tomorrow’s Buzz post with my incendiary commentary. Thought these guys could not go lower, wow!
Then an older comment by Ryan ripping Points, Miles & Martinis, a blog that has a lifetime entry in the Blogs To Ignore, one of the most ethically challlenged out there, wow!
Here it is:
http://travelbloggerbuzz.com/united-flight-disruptions-pointscentric-china-pollution/#comment-396603
Silver ?
AwardWallet is making me feel itchy about all my data they have in their servers
Are there any decent alternatives to Award Wallet? They used to be really good but lately losing their luster.
Anyone???
Sadly, I don’t think so…
This works pretty nice and is secure from cyber hacks …
https://goo.gl/images/hsYHYu
That could work, lol!
Me too. I have real concerns about the security of my data.
I haven’t really used AW in a long time. I get emails from them with warnings like ‘300,000 AA miles will expire next week but this email could be wrong since AW hasn’t logged onto my AA account in 571 days’.
You think?
Russia has more important accounts to hack.
So…when will you release the golden showers video dude? When you take over the rest of Ukraine? 🙂
What’s wrong with bugs in bacon? Pea in a pod doesn’t sound logical either. Should it rather be like ‘Kanye in Kim’ instead?
Oh man….this is getting bad in here…May have to censor a bit #notreally
Belarus is a surprising wonderful place to visit for a few days. It was billed as Stalin’s shinning city and it has modern architecture in an old world look. The city is clean, easy to walk, good old Soviet sites, excellent food and great IHG hotel in center of the city. Don’t sleep on Belarus is you are in that part of the globe.
Out of so many places to visit…I think Belarus can wait 🙂
K. So how does a blog not on your Blogs i Love or Blogs I Like list get a posting, like your Uganda link?
I’m betting his “blogs I read/subscribe” to on feedly is a much much longer list.
Highlight of my day from a Free-quent Flyer comment correcting a reader…
“One quick note, Lucky’s a rich weirdo, not weirdly rich!”
What Brenton said…
If my blogs in my Feedly list were just the ones in my Love/Like list…it would be…like…REAL part time job here lol.
“I believe today’s GIF is Metaphoric in its portrayal of the difficulty many of are having trying to get approval for the Chase Sappy Reserve card”……………………………Prof. Irwin Corey
Hey Buzz how did Wolfgang Putz’ food taste, it did look great? Did he cook or was he just there for for the photo session?
AND….speaking of that photo session, that photo of him with you and your wife has me wondering. Did Wolfgang pull a Robin Thick and grab your ass during it? I could tell by that smile of yours!
Faaaaake news!
Food was excellent. He was messing around with it…but not sure he actually cooked it. I think he was into training the staff more. The staff were really paying attention to him.
I meant Minsk as the city to visit in Belarus…
The CSR selling orgy is on…
DansDeals: “Final hours to earn 100k…” and so much more I feel like I need to take a bath…
Actually, I am going to do exactly that!
Today’s nota bene:
;tis better to be pissed off than pissed on.
Silence is #golden ?
#TBBon
The freak show is about to get started here…
May ask you about Nicawawa too soon 🙂
Travel Thought Leader’s way to pump more plastic: Oh, Korea Airilne link does not work in Chase UR…bang bang bang. Oh, it came back, bang, bang, bang…
Phuuuuuuuuuck. And then I get bitched on for adding one paragraph about the CSR once! (Which I had to take down for compliance violation…for telling readers that my cc banner is on the right hand side). I mean, if this is not BS I don’t know what is!
Back in the days when you had to go to an “adult theater” to watch a porno, my buddy and I fondly recall a movie where the lead male would utter the line “Piss on me, bitch!”
Wish I could recall the movie but am wondering if the main character was Mr Hands-are-big-enough-believe-me!
4 years is a very long time…
I wonder how these people feel:
Non voters who stayed home
Voters who voted for Johnson and the Green party because they did not like Hillary
Buzz-
A quick question:
Is Travel Blogger Buzz a division of Buzz Feed?
I wish!
Funny incident of me and daughter talking in the car:
Me: So, what do you want to do when you grow up?
Her: I want to work at Buzzfeed?
Me: What? Why?
Her: Did you see what they eat for lunch every day free?
Me: (I love you)
Lol.
Was on the fence about getting the Reserve, we are buying our first house in a couple of months (and just had a baby) so I have not been applying for cards and was under 5/24. It’s been so hard sitting on the sidelines this last year. I crumbled today…used your link! And was approved.
I don’t comment much but I always enjoy reading so I wanted to say Thanks. Keep up the good work.
Comments like yours Jessica just make my day. Thank you so much and good luck with the house!
I stopped by again at the branch. Both of us shut out of the CSR…again. For several months straight…so unfair 🙂
Thanks Buzz. Your blog is great and has survived, and will survive, because of your integrity and because of the nature of your motivation to write it. The values you have are much more enduring than the business plan of “get rich by hoodwinking the noobies”. And a good example to your kids. That’s my opinion anyway.
PS Used up a bunch of VGC for new Michelin A/T2 tires for my Prerunner. I think I’ll get one of those Traeger smoker bbqs as well, a little one. As I mentioned, my BB finally got cancelled so I’m brainstorming other ways to liquidate VGCs.
I hope the blog survives too 🙂
Your BB had a nice run!