Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco Photo by Maxx Smart I had a pretty good weekend in New York City. I finally met in person Kathy of Will Run for Miles and we had a wonderful chat eating salads at the Whole Foods in Union Square. It is amazing how much you get to know a person online […]

Angkor, Cambodia Photo by Mike Behnken. Courtesy of Matador Network One more day in New Jersey. I had lunch again with Angelina of JustAnotherPointsTraveler and we caught up with all the blog buzz. I gave her my tutorial on how to win contests which resulted in a win by her as we spoke! It appears […]

This is NOT a joke, see last entry below!   This is likely to be one of the shortest blog posts ever. Is it just me or are things a bit quiet lately?I finally saw Lincoln last night. Actually it was quite refreshing to see how votes were bought even 250 years ago, some things […]

 Athens at night burning…not from riots but from wood as oil & natural gas is too expensive! 12/26/2012 courtesy of Facebook page of Yannis Larios There were some extensive efforts done yesterday to book an award for two either on Delta or Avios with no success. I must admit I have had good luck booking last minute […]

Hoodoos in Bryce National Park, Utah Courtesy of Everything-Everywhere.com   Looks like I will be around New York/New Jersey until December 31st. I can’t get me any award flights anywhere desirable. And there is no way I am spending 305k Delta Skypesos to Sydney per ticket! I will attempt some more tries tomorrow…#developing. Yes I do know I should have started […]

Mt. Olympus, Greece TBB was born & raised 1 hr south of here Miss partying with Zeus, good times Hello from Upper Saddle River in New Jersey. I am typing this from my brother in law’s house where  the internet connection reminds me of dial up modem speed times! So, this blog post may take a […]

  Will Magic replace Bluebird?? It’s a joke relax! HT to Cheryl @cowgirrl3     The TBB Board met in an emergency session yesterday and took immediate action: No daily updates on Sundays! Lets give the guy (me!) a break! Things slow way down in the weekend anyways. The daily update should be here […]

 Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal’s “The Middle Seat” Column It was a wild day yesterday. Shockingly, TBB had to make a separate post about all the confusion from the US Air “new 50k” credit card offer. You can read it all about it here.  There is so much materail to cover, so let’s […]

THE US AIR “NEW” 50k CREDIT CARD OFFER Well, the story goes like this. There has been a non affiliate US credit card offer with 40k signing bonus for a long time, with annual fee waived in the first year and 10k at one year anniversary. It was churnable too!  It was supposed to be […]

 Busy day in the blogoshpere again today! The venom against Instagram continued and the company now changed its tune suggesting it may not sell user photos. What an amazingly stupid move by this company! And it looks like the TBB wrath is being felt more and more and many bloggers prominently featured the non affiliate 45k AMEX […]