We learn some Delta Skymiles awards tricks, ponder about living a nomadic life, learn about some free things to do in LA, read about some of the richest cheapskates, travel to beautiful St. Petersburg and check out some Soviet bus stops and more!
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One.Of.The.Slowest.Miles.Points.Days.In.Blogosphere.Yawn
How to know you’re getting the lowest miles price with Skymiles. By MileCards. Must read if you still have Skymiles to burn! This is the key excerpt from the post:
All you need to know is this.
- With one tricky exception – if the Delta flight you’re looking at has just ONE letter next to it (like ‘O’, ‘R’, or ‘N’), then you’re getting the lowest possible current price for that flight.
- If it has two letters next to it (like ‘ON,’ or ‘OS’), you’re being upsold to a higher mileage price level, and aren’t getting the lowest possible price.
- It there’s a PARTNER flight with NO Delta flights, it will always price at the lowest possible price level.
- If there’s a PARTNER flight mixed in with Delta flights, that’s the tricky exception we’ll point out.
8 things we still haven’t figured out about nomadic life. By Freakin Flyers who is Carrie, Travel is Free Drew’s wife. Interesting post to say the least. I could not relate, I love my home! Especially that we now have a brand new microwave, washer & dryer. Damn it, why do they go at the same time why?
40 Free Things To Do in LA. Some great things to do listed here…for FREE!
Terry Maxon, who writes the Airline Biz Blog at Dallas News, is retiring. I will miss his deep industry knowledge and his wit! Happy retirement Terry! His last post “30 Idle Thoughts“:
When is the best time for you to buy an airline ticket? When it’s low enough for you.
Speaking from personal experience, the airline reporter gig is a million-dollar job. It just takes you a lot of years to collect that million dollars.
Thank you for realizing that I wasn’t trying to be an idiot when I made mistakes (it just came naturally).
10 of the Richest Cheapskates of All Time. Fascinating.
Brian Eno and David Byrne had collaborated a long time ago. This is one of their songs titled “Jezebel Spirit” from the awesome album “My life in the Bush of Ghosts” and hey, you may not like it but I do! But what blew me away is all the amazing pictures in the video. WOW!
St. Petersburg was voted the best destination in Europe. The link shows you why.
Soviet Bus Stops. Over 30,000 km full of bus stops. Dig it.
And I leave you with…
I watched some of the GOP Debate. The best part of these debates is all the jokes on Twitter!
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Darn WP Scheduler failed again at 6.30 am!
1st!
2nd!
My scheduler to check me in first failed to. I’ll just board with the C group…
failed too*
Totally hate when that happens!
Buzz I’m still laughing at the Two Guys Dropping Pizza Gif. I have to rank it tied with the Male Model in High Heels Falling Down on Stage and Knocking Everything Over as the BEST TBB GIF EVER…………………….Buzz my kids are too old to get drafted Thank God. If Carly Fiorina gets elected you may be a little worried about this. She sounds like a nut who can’t wait to send other people’s children in harm’s way. #lookatthatface https://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/jumanji-4.gif
I still think the male model in high heels falling down on stage is better!
WTF was she talking about when she was just going on “50 battalions, 373 aircraft carriers” and other complete non sense! I have two clients who used to work at HP when she was there…I swear, they were probably screaming at their TV screen! Unbelievable with her record she wants to become President. This is like a circus full of clowns. And I thought Greek politics was full of clowns lol.
If we could elect Pres Obama with his record, cant we really elect anyone? Who could do worse at this point?
I’m still trying to get my scheduler to work. I’ve read that the plug-in Jetpack may be the problem.
I’m so glad that Carrie is still blogging. I thought she had quit because there’s no link to Freakin’ Flyers on Travel Is Free. Strange, I would let my husband have a linky if he wanted it.
Really? I would let her have a link clearly 🙂
Both names are making me smh. Why Freaking? Why Flyers? Don’t get me started about how Travel is NOT Free 🙂
The song is called “Jezebel Spirit”, album is “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” (yah there’s always that guy). The vocal track in the song is an actual real life exorcism! The album is excellent, and seminal in the sampling world. It’s made up of different stuff, some recordings from NYC radio, found sounds, etc., with studio music added as well. Done before digital, so real PIA to sync everything together.
Nobody writes about couchsurfing in this niche. You should take a trip, do it, then blog it.
You are absolutely right, got a little mixed up there. I will correct the post. Phenomenal album. I was always fascinated about electronic music. I am going to see Kraftwerk in Detroit in a few weeks and can’t wait! I saw them back in the 90s and it was the best concert EVER! They must be in their 70s now…which is mind blowing by itself!
Regarding couchsurfing: You won’t see much about it in the “miles/points” blogging world…I mean, do they really want to appeal to free loaders like that who won’t get any credit cards and/or they have good enough credit score to get approved? 🙂