What’s the phrase? It’s a feature, not a bug.

I agree with most of what you said. I am more sad than everyone seeing Drew part ways with TIF in this manner, by far the most talented blogger in this space who ever blogged and I have been around since the startup Flyertalk days.

As long as the job at RV is there, he will be fine imho.

Me the real winner??????? I had to sit down and not collapse from laughing. Thanks….if I truly cared about monetizing I would be looooooong gone as they say in baseball 🙂

I think Ingy can buy back Frugal Travel Guy for peanuts as it appears they have stopped posting…I think.

Yeah, good call on Airbnb’s. Looks like Airbnb (the company) will try to help owners listing their places but if this keeps up…it does not look good. I have a saying “Reaching for leverage kills”. We are in the killing phase now…

Was pissed off yesterday my kids ordered some food and did not choose delivery so I had to go and pick it up. Second trip outside other than Kroger pickup…so many items sold out, including bread, phuuuuck!

Freequent Flier is going to be back blogging more it appears. Drew will not at Travel Is Free as he sold the site to RV. Looks like RV has some room to withstand this as they are a lot more diversified than just travel. Drew is in its IT dept, not TPG so he will be fine for now.

I can not lose my baby here….not that I ever had any offers. Oh wait, Ingy had offered me $100 LOL.

Made a joke about Simon Malls buying Frequent Miler on Twitter, I thought it was harmless. Apparently, Nick did not think so. For the record, I have never done April Fool’s jokes, I always thought they were in bad taste and a stupid tradition…I am weird.

You all enjoy your Friday 🙂

Stay The F_ at home!

The cruelty is the point…

Don’t forget that the Trump Administration is still actively in court trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Kicking 20 million Americans off their health insurance in the middle of a pandemic sure seems like something no other president could do better too.

My bad it looks as though drew still has his post up but I do agree with you and also didn’t think about someone else mentioning all the AirBnB properties he was trying to leverage.

Drew is like the Marcus Dupree of blogging. He had all the talent in the world to be better than anyone at this hobby but his creativity and other life choices were to much of a barrier for him to focus.

Now that I think about it I hope he’s not to depressed cause who knows how long this will last and those ‘tools’ he was building for TPG seem prettt damn pointless now don’t they.

I really don’t get it. He went silent for years. Came back, had an audience, and abandoned them within 6 months for TPG. Now with travel dead for moths I wonder how any of this blogging world will recover. Ever since Lucky Doing an enormous amount of trip reports (which I personally don’t mind) people have advanced this hobby to Video travel reviews on you tube and a different type of interacting for content. Blogs are dead this decade in my opinion and the only people who will last will be the ones who didn’t care to monetize in the first place !! Aka you the real winner !!!

Fkc tpg

I thought about Drew last night and today. I wondered whether he still has those 10 or so Air BnBs, which I assume were highly leveraged. I hope not-#justcan’twatch..

I think TPG is going to flip over and reappear as something entirely different. #saveourbutts.

I am pondering what value these FF miles will have after the slaughter that’s coming. Is it time to dump the piles of AA, UA and other airline specific miles since cash tickets will likely be cheap in the future, as people will hesitate to get in a metal container with 150 strangers and recirculated air.#notsosoonhombre.

All this certainly got my mind off Ingy. Maybe he’s thinking of what the new CC world will look like and how to goose the system. He was a great hustler and may this is his second act. #howtoseetheSuperBowlfreeusingpointsandnike.

Most of our friends and contacts are still going into stores and such, confident that going in during the hours for high-risk is good enough. I haven’t been indoors anywhere except our home for 20 days. #Playingalltheodds..

And then there’s Buzz and TBB. #nexttime.

Another one
“ Last summer, the Trump administration let the contract lapse with the firm maintaining the ventilator stockpile. Now, ventilators are reaching states in disrepair. ”

Natural ability to…phuck things up I say…cheers

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