The ridiculous race is on to get readers to click on the SPG Amex 30k affiliate links! Make fun of them and enter to win two AA Admirals Club passes!
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TRAVEL
Waterspouts over the Adriatic Sea. By Twisted Sifter. Wow, this looks so cool!
The Moscow Metro Systems is Just Incredible. Never been. It does seem overly generous?
This is what it feels like to rocket away from Earth! Wow, this is way too cool!
10 Iconic Train Trips. Come on Amtrak, let’s get some deals inked so we can use your points on some of these trips por favor!
Speaking about trains, these are some people and things you don’t want to meet on a train!
Well, I am on a Trains roll right now. How about adding “10 Fascinating Train Routes Across the World“. By The World Geography
Winners of the 2013 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest. MUST CLICK. Too many copyright notices involved so I won’t feature a pic here. Please visit!
MILES/POINTS
Frequent Miler gives us the play by play of yet another deal dying a premature death. “Home Improvement gift cards lose their luster. Now what?” FM stated and I quote: “I didn’t write a post about it because I was sure it wouldn’t last long and I didn’t want to hasten its demise. More importantly, I thought it was risky to buy Home Improvement cards if you didn’t plan to use them on, you know, home improvement.” Hey Million Mile Secrets, I think this is a message for you!
View from the Wing wrote “Don’t Rely on Phone Agents or Airline Websites: Here’s Which Tools to Use to Find Award Space on Your Own“. One of Gary’s best posts, must read and must save! Went to my Evernote for future reference!
Good content in Mile Adventures
ON MY MIND
I am caught up with the Buzz posts, yippee!
Just got word that I have to turn in my free Mercedes on August 22. How am I going to go back to my 12 year old Camry now huh?
ODDZ & ENDZ
Underwater Sculptures by Jason deCaries. By Bored Panda. I am speechless…
Photographer goes on assignment to Yakuza Land…at its headquarters. They look like hard working nice guys, don’t they? WOW!!
Top 50 Animated GIFs foe Every Situation. Must click, guaranteed LOLs. By Seriously For Real?
Ok, now for something serious. Afghanistan Children of War. Contains STRONG material, click at your own risk. Look at these before you complain about the lack of a pre departure drink or missing your upgrade!
BLOG BUZZ
Note: This section is intended for long time readers and miles/points addicts who follow the blogs in this space. Readers not familiar with this crazy hobby could skip this section!
Travel With Grant wrote about the Chase Sapphire Preferred card and he gets a reader to ask in the comments “Can you tell me about the Companion card”? You know what we are dealing with when readers can not even get the name right and do not take a few seconds, you know, use Google. And of course Grant warns the reader that it is probably not the best timing to go for this now…, yeah sure.
Noob Traveler, on the very last day of the Southwest latest 50k offer, decides to warn his readers that maybe is not the best timing to go for it. While at it, he slips in the Sapphire and Ink affiliate links. This crap makes me angry!!
Mommy Points does a great job on the “Good Day Chicago” TV show! Word on the blog street is that there was another restructuring in the PR Dept at The Points Guy for letting another PR opportunity get away. Come on Brian, you over pay them perhaps? 🙂
Travel With Grant has a giveaway of the book (hardcover!) “Never Get a Real Job”. Seriously?
i win sorry i have nothing better to say
The pictures of Children of War reminded me of my childhood in VietNam… Thanks.
I can not imagine…Thanks for reading and taking the time to comment as always!
@ Jeff: You are number Uno! We are not worthy!
Love the noonish post time- that vacation must have refreshed you!
Well, that was due to me being on catch up mode. I am caught up now…I think!
Yet no one could beat Jeff!
One word to describe the blog content in this afternoon post: WOW!! 😀
Thanks! I like to share what wow’s me with you all. I really pounce on the “eclectic” part of my blog’s tagline you know;-)
And commercial free for 9 months now too!
“And commercial free for 9 months now too!”
So George, Why not add a Donate button?
Adding a Donate Button makes me feel like Chris Elliott:-)
thank god you are back – promise me you’ll never take another day off again!! 😉
Oh come on man, give me a break. But I will change some tactics for my next trip. Coming back to about 6,000 blog posts to go through was way too overwhelming…Tough balance. Or maybe I can hire a ghost writer lol
Last?
Que?
I kind of grateful the HIGC deal died before I got over there. I probably would have bought around $1000 towards my minimum spends hoping to put it on Bluebird and gotten stuck. It seems it got shut down abruptly at 1pm PST which is the time I would have been out shopping.
Are there any gift cards left that can be loaded on Bluebirds? I already know to look for VRs at CVS & 7-11.
I have no time for gift cards anymore, I stick with Vanilla. But the local Ann Arbor guys keep cleaning out the stores. Just don’t get the Rush card:-)
Only use 2xBB=$10K a month? If not, what’s your second or 3rd choice to BB?
No time for gift cards? What are you doing for miles. I’d sure like to know that
Got way too many miles, I can not burn them fast enough! Still adjusting after my trip. I only hit em hard when it counts but darn bloggers keep killing the deals lately…again;-)
(Yeah. donate button.)
Ad sense and donate buttons are not the answer…
I need to get through several hundred pictures from my Alberta trip…so one day I will get around to this touchy subject:-)
Only a few hundred? I managed to take 1400 pictures during my 9 day trip home with my 4yo son. A new personal best!
My mother had these 100+ years old black and white pictures of my grandmother and great grandmother. Fantastic quality. I wonder where my digital pictures will be 50 years from now. Will future generations be able to open them? How long will they last?
Not to get all paranoid on you but if you only have them on digital. You’re just one EMP away from losing them all. 🙂
Only a few hundred I need to…go through. I have not counted them, must be close to 1,000 I think. Prepare for the mother of all trip reports:-)
Some great photos today, TBB, but I looked the longest at the smiling little girl with the younger child on her back. How fortunate we are to have first world problems.
LIke you with your soon-to-be-gone Mercedes, my son will soon have to adjust to driving his old Suburu. He has spent the last four months on a job for BMW, and has been driving a variety of luxury cars all around the US. I say variety because the event he is working on brings BMW competitor cars to BMW dealers, so potential buyers can try the competition without ever leaving the BMW lot. He said he prefers the BMWs to the Mercedes he has tried. To each his own. I am sure they are all better than the old Suburu!
I like the Mercedes no doubt. But I would never buy one. I love the handling of course but this model feels small for such a big price tag. I was hoping to keep it one more month but the Federal Government ended the study this month. Darn!
Just a note, our friend Jeff @ canadian kilometers has to have the worst disclosure policy of anyone. This was in his disclosure policy – “Affiliate content may be present and will not be noted in content.” C’mon, why wouldn’t you just make a note at the top, bottom, or after a link that you get something for it?
Wow, I did not notice that! Maybe he is kidding. I will make sure to give him a hard time about it. Many bloggers do NOT disclose in the body of their posts=Fact