LOVE this pic! Found at WillRunForMiles from Kathy’s trip to Tel Aviv   ON MY MIND US Air card is here. Stopped at CVS (naturally) and only got a few Gatorade drinks with it. Add another 35k miles, woohoo! No Vanilla Reload cards, boo! Thank Mile God there are many stores around me. I need […]

 Swimming pool at Holiday Inn Shanghai Pudong Kangqiao (see link below)   ON MY MIND I am going through the minimum spends on the two Citi AA cards in super speed. Still waiting on the other two cards. Wife and daughter return to the US on Wednesday so maybe she wants to apply for some […]

Night Explodes Over the North Pacific, Hawaii. At Vagabondish   ON MY MIND I called US Bank and I was approved for the Club Carlson business card, hooray! I knew it was going to happen…I just needed to fight through the lady guarding the gates as I mentioned in the previous blog post! I love […]

Genting, Malaysia. TBB has been on this cable ride!   ON MY MIND This will be a quick blog post today as I am dealing with a tsunami of real life in this particular stretch. Both Citi AA cards are here, gym renewal paid, annual donation to church done and a few visits to my […]

Novi Beograd, Serbia. From Yomadic   ON MY MIND I had to delete some comments in my Feb 20 blog post. It was brought to my attention that there were several comments being made by people pretending to be other bloggers. Amost everyone here realized that these were supposed to be a joke, we like […]

This is how it feels after Hilton Honors devaluation today!Image at arrestedmotion.com   ON MY MIND What else? The gutting of the Hilton Honors program! We all know devaluations will always happen but the degree of the devaluation today was just massive! To me, Hilton points have joined the Skypesos hall of shame! And that so saddens […]

TBB’s vacation home. In my dreamsHohenzollern, Germany (see link below)   ON MY MIND As you know, I applied for the Business Club Carlson Visa from US Bank. I received a denial due to excessive inquiries. It has been years since I was denied but, as most of you know, this is very common with […]

TBB’S Chinese New Year party at home. Yes I had no other pics to post!  ON MY MIND Talk about slim pickings over the weekend… There is nothing major going on the miles/points world. It appears the bloggers are also taking a pass. I have never seen it so dry, so boring! If it […]

The only true undisputed leader from THE merger is One World!  ON MY MIND I called Barclays Reconsideration line 866-408-4064 and talked with the nicest fellow who asked a few questions about my income and my job after confirming it was me…”You have done very well in handling your credit” he said, puts me on […]

And then they were just four…  ON MY MIND It is amazing how so many bloggers have suddenly become aviation analysts! Wife and daughter are off to Singapore & Malaysia. Flying United from Detroit to Newark, United to Zurich, Singapore Airlines to Singapore on A380, Singapore Airlines to Frankfurt, Lufthansa to Detroit. Daughter from […]