I think you have a point. I just don’t have the time to look into that complex field…I am barely keeping it together. One day maybe…no rush. I move like a turtle.

FTU like events are awesome for networking/socializing for old timers. That’s all.

Thanks for the compliment:)

As for the link to Mommy… I love her postings. I really do. When I took a look at the power point, I realized she’s talking to first timers.
Even then, first timers need to read, re-read, and read again until they ‘get it’. I can’t imagine how boring these universities are to old timers. I know I can pick up a tip or two, but hang out for multiple days to do it? I’ll pass.

I’ll stick to local dinners in NY, or where ever my travels take me.

P. S. with one exception, I skim the blogs. Insert wink here.

dhammer53

There is a lot of truth in your post.

For me:

1) I am doing this to lower my therapist’s bills. My family is missing me:-)
2) I put in a lot of time and I have not been compensated. It’s okay…not sure until when. If I ever go that route, it will be like Frequent Miler does it! And I won’t throw a MV move on you guys;-)
3) Travel is not free. End of story.
4) Disclosing is part of the equation of course. ONe thing you must do up to now is NOT call me a CC pusher!!!
5) If you are looking for the deals to be revealed here it ain’t going to happen probably.

I have no doubt many bloggers have said all the things you stated in front of their mirror!

There are CC pushers and then there are CC pushers…if u know what I mean!!!!

Thanks for taking the time to comment and read my blog. If you like please ask your friends to book mark it…so they can travel for free too LOLOLOLOLOL

I also wondered about the same thing!

You crack me up!!

That’s the new play Emily and Daraius go to Maui. Which post of the series? It doesn’t really matter – it’s a play in many acts.

It works as high modernist absurdism in any post. Witness:

VLADIMIR:
The selection of activities is much better than in Bora Bora, and they are much cheaper as well.
ESTRAGON:
I went out to look for sea turtles around the rocks by our hotel, but I did not see any sea turtles.
VLADIMIR:
The waters can be dangerous because they are deep.
ESTRAGON:
Little did we know that the submarine was underwater….

To quote the Guardian’s original review of the 1955 play:
It “is a play to send the rationalist out of his mind and induce tooth-gnashing among people who would take Lewis Carroll’s Red Queen and Lear’s nonsense exchanges with the food as easiest stuff in the world. the play, if about anything is ostensibly about two tramps who spend the two acts, two evenings long, under a tree on a bit of waste ground….”

We’re in the presence of genius, George, and it wears a bowtie.

harvson3

On the plus side, people are laughing behind your back for the several weeks of successful priming of the readership for upcoming referrals/affiliations so you are getting some notoriety which is far more important in this hobby than getting interviewed on Fridays.

Remember the key to overcome public acerbity is to look yourself in the mirror and say these things to yourself over and over till the brain is conditioned to believe it is naturally true

1) I am doing this for my family.
2) I put in a lot of time so I must be compensated.
3) I am doing the world a favor by helping them to travel for free(insert your “funny sarcasm” that travel is actually not free. See funny….)
4) As long as I disclose, I am not going to be called a CC pusher.
5) Deals are meant to be killed. So why not publicize it for those who are lazy and help these people also travel for free.

Ka Ching.

@TBB I think you have it backwards. VFTW and to a lesser extent Lucky and maybe Mommy Points CREATE the umbrella, the whole point is that the big blogs don’t have quotas for all intents and purposes since they – by virtue of their traffic – simply have enough volume already not to worry about it.

I think the Death Valley video was one of the best I have ever posted here. Glad you liked it. Thanks!