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This edition will likely be a bit shorter than usual…It always starts out this way…
The Top 25 Credit Cards by Mile Nerd. The hobby starts here…
Don’t mess with Texas California! Southwest Declares War Against Alaska and Anyone Else Who Wants a Piece of California. Buzz off Alaska Airlines…Common folks winning!
Alaska is the first airline to provide a threat of real competition in mid-sized California airports in some time, and Southwest isn’t messing around. This new competitive threat has awakened the airline, and now it’s not only beating its chest but it’s making moves, adding capacity. There’s obviously some fear here that’s making Southwest react so aggressively. That may, in a way, be a back-handed compliment toward Alaska. Southwest thinks the airline is worth taking seriously. And unlike a North Korean war, this is one where the common folks stand to benefit as long as it continues.
This is really good: How I’m Maximizing Distance Based Awards In 2017. And what’s up with them 5k Delta awards hey?
Snapshots of Prague. My favorite European city, I should go back…
The world’s longest zipwire opens near Dubai. It is the length of 28 football fields. Yeah, not a typo!
I am loving all the build up to the new Bladerunner movie taking place in 2049. If you remember in the original eons ago, it all took place in 2019. There is a six minute release updating us all what happened in 2036. And in the link you will find more on what happened in the years in between, the backstory in other words. Brilliant!
Ok, this is enough! Organic Doritos. Stab me now…
The miles and points blog space is so boring. So many bloggers all pretty much blogging about the same old stuff. We need a new niche. How about this one you aspiring blogger you? You can go to these places if you apply for (insert whatever credit card is on sale!). Here you go, enjoy…TBB sliding away with an evil smile hehe. Eat Pray Spank: The Hot, Wild World of BDSM Vacations.
Actually, I am serious, who has this niche, noone! Eat Pray Spank for freeeeeeeee, until you build a following that is and then you can affiliate link carpet bomb them. Or carpet spank them if you prefer lol. Okay, lets take this a bit further as you are probably bored reading about the 4th night free Citi Prestige benefit or Jet Blue Sale or how you can get a free $15 gift card at Office Depot with your purchase of several hundred dollars of gift cards with your Ink card…zzzzzz. U ready? Here is a excerpt (not safe for work okay!):
A mere $350 a night gets you bed, breakfast, and access to the sprawling, 12,500 square foot dungeon at this adult hideaway. Nestled in the bucolic foothills of the Berkshires, the manor only has one guest room, but more than a hundred and fifty travelers pass through in an average month. During party weekends, Mistress Couple says, “People tend to camp out in the backyard and the submissives all sleep in the dungeon.” The neighbors, she says, don’t seem to mind.
I bet you troll Andy is reading it because he always pretends to leave but he always comes back. Hey dude, enjoy this and thanks for the support beatings. Actually, your trolling is so weak it’s embarrassing. Ingy was much better bwahahaha.
My heart goes out to the people in Houston affected by Harvey. Beware the scammers now!
Can you believe these guys at Wells Fargo? And yet no one goes to jail…Trump will drain the swamp you guys lol.
The Closes of Edinburgh. Looks nice in the old town!
Oh oh I am a dead man, Ramsey will now go on a spree of posting with fake handles…oh wait. The world’s weirdest toilets:
The Japanese one can have talking robots so there!
This is very cool. The loudest and quietest places in the US.
I am going to take away the BLOG BUZZ section and just mix things in. Variety is my middle name. That just came to me. I lack sleep, slept on the floor of my home office last night hoping to get my PC’s System Restore to finish…Until things get back to normal my posts will get smaller. I am on a downward slope, first the Saturday posts, then the Sunday posts and now much smaller. But I am going to listen to one reader a month or so ago who told me I post way too many cool links and can’t get to all of them and I should cut down….For you buddy!
Update: The reason for the technical problems was a hard disk going bad after many years of awesome performance. Awesome new desktop PC has been ordered. It will take some time to get everything set up again in the next few weeks. No loss of data, I have three complete backups. Just a lot of hassle putting everything back on. Thanks for your patience.
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Good morning!
“Edinburgh Scotland”
Any other Edinburgh’s of note?!
You’re not familiar with the ones in South Africa, Indiana, and Ohio? lol
Good one on the distance-based awards – though my favorite quote from that article is “American’s AAdvantage award chart is largely theoretical…” I laughed. And cried.
The toilets! I love the high tech toilets in Japan – the warm water bidet and blow-dry is the best!
An excellent book by the way, in all seriousness is “How to Shit Around the World – The Art of Staying Clean and Healthy While Traveling” – available on Amazon (use the TBB link!). Written by a doctor who specializes in tropical medicine and hygiene, it has excellent advice for healthy eating, drinking & shitting; best things to do if you get a gastrointestinal illness; good educational background on what to really worry and not worry about as far as germs/disease; talks about some of the different kinds of toilet facilities around the world; and some pretty funny anecdotes.
https://www.amazon.com/How-Shit-Around-World-Traveling/dp/1932361324/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1504269729&sr=8-1&keywords=how+to+shit+around+the+world
Maybe I should do a giveaway
I almost wet my pants reading the BDSM article. Why do you need training to be a slave? Isn’t that part of the act? They call it a party. Sounds more like a “DO” to me.
La Domaine Esemar’s page is down or has been hacked. The Buzz effect?
I doubt the site went down because of me.
It will be a fun place to hold a DO 🙂
I did a comparison of DAN’S DEALS, DANNY THE DEAL GURU, DEALNEWS and DEAL CATCHER………oy vey, DANS DEALS does not compare, not exactly Bootylicious my Brother from another muther
They are all the same, how many deal sites do we need? Zzzzzzz
I knew it…When the pumping bloggers finally discovered the Hilton Amex Surpass 100k plus free night offer….it became available with the affiliate channels…
And it is now available with my links.
I will return later…
Itching for a filler post tomorrow…stop me 🙂
Updated 9/2/17 the page with the best offers available here:
http://travelbloggerbuzz.com/hilton-honors-status-match-doomsday-shelters-foreign-transaction-fees-tbb-comments/#comment-403663
Hurry but probably not the last chance if you have been around for a while.
This is embarrassing
Thanks for the support.
There would be a post here today if this blog converted 10 cards last month.
Just fyi…
U still mad about the toilets?
I had enough sitting on my ass and doing back stretching exercises!
17 miles on my bike today.
Suck it bulging discs, we are going down together!
Anyways, post is scheduled for Monday.
75% of Tuesdays post is in.
I have a good set of eclectic “Sunday” type links to share with you one day next week.
Waiting for my desktop PC, it’s going to be kick ass awesome. Hope I get 10 years out of it like the one I still have and hard disk is slowed down of old age…(but still going…barely!).
For Lufthansa First Class, does it really show up on the UA site within 2 weeks of departure? I may pull the trigger when I come back from Greece. Date unknown as of now.
So glad school is starting, my daughter was getting on my nerves #kidding
I guess we are not missing much this weekend…Straight from a travel thought leader:
Woman Sues Over Burns On Her Butt Caused By Two Passengers Arguing Over Barking Dog – View From The Wing
Can’t wait to see the Doc and that Tagging Miles dude link to it lol.
Recuperating from 17 miles biking…and getting ready to watch Greece vs Belgium World Cup Quaifier. 3 points or bust!
I miss you guys….Maybe I will post my response to blog reader who said he is missing the Sunday posts so you can understand where TBB is coming from…
There are 4 spots for the runners-up. B&H won’t catch up.
Greece plays Belgium at home today and at Cyprus next. We control our destiny. With 2 wins we get 2nd and a playoff spot.
Can it be done? Yes.
Will it be hard? Oh yes!
Will i bet we do it? Ummm, no.
I hope the Estonians beat Cyprus otherwise next game will resemble Civil War!
If we had not given away the 2 points to Estonia last week. Too many injuries up front
Even Dan at DansDeals stopped reading my site. If he did, he would have known all about that property at Iguazu Falls leaving SPG.
When DansDeals HTs my site there would be peace in the Middle East…
And then I have people here bitching about my embarrassing pumping of my links that barely pay close to minimum wage…
Bite me
You know what’s embarrassing?
That Reward Boss dude in Boarding Area….only shows up to sell plastic.
Estonia – Cyprus 1-0 final
Greece is tied with Belgium at halftime. B&H is winning at Gibraltar as expected.
If it stands…
Gr is tied with B&H for second. Likely B&H goes ahead on goal differential
B&H hosts Belgium next and plays at Estonia next.
GR goes to Cyprus and hosts Gibraltar next.
This one is going down to the wire!
Belgium won 2-1.
We tried and deserved better…
Still not out of it but…
So, you’re 2 points behind B&H and you need to get 3 points more than them in he next 2 games, as they have the tiebreaker right? You have probably easy 6 points as Cyprus is out. I can see B&H losing 3 points. I feel your pain… I root for Uruguay, and it’s never been easy..
France-Luxembourg tied!!!