Rudy Gobert will be remembered for that, sad!

I think a lot of that planning is happening. From an article I will post tomorrow, I think, looks like Hilton’s phone lines are insanely busy! I have a feeling we will see a massive reversal of the Covid friendly policies we have been given (for free, not that consequential to the airlines and hotels these days) and, wait for it, devaluations starting to happen sooner rather than later…

Tried to get a retention bonus from US Bank on the Radisson Rewards Visa…every year I say I will cancel but then the 30,000 points (or wait, maybe it is 40,000, I have the business card version) hits and I change my mind…

For Greece to be fully vaccinated I learned the country must increase its vaccination rate to a MUCH higher rate than it is doing AND keep it up for 9 straight months and, just like that, my trip to Greece in mid November is not looking as safe as originally thought…

I haven’t been more than 10 miles from my house since coming back from Sri Lanka 4 days after, as Biden says, “the last guy” made his chaotic announcement about flight cancelations and Rudy Gobert was touching microphones.

So maybe it’s just pandemic fatigue and needing something to look forward to but I am starting to plan some trips, but certainly nothing non-refundable. I still have a flight to Amsterdam scheduled for April, kicked down the road from a Virgin Atlantic booking originally for last July, which obviously wont be happening. There are some dates for this July that I might move to and take my chances. I did put flights in and out of Santiago on the books for a Patagonia trip this December / January. Surely that will be ok? Rational or not, flying before getting my vaccination just gives me the heebie-jeebies.

And Carl, I’m with you on cards these days. I keep letting them just close and not paying annual fees without traveling. I love how all the bloggers run their justifications for annual fees, not recognizing (or being honest) that they’re being paid back with their own money they already spent. It’s like the few sports GMs stuck in the pre-analytics world that pay for past performance as if it is predictive of future performance. Or is there some sort of stock metaphor that’s more apt?

In next blog’s Top Pick I have a short movie about ICU beds…

Maybe all the bloggers traveling and blogging about it should watch it first…

Full Disclosure: I cried…it will move you.

Oh wait, maybe I should introduce it as a SHOCKING video (which it is by the way) to get more clicks…

A lot going on and this Ramsey dude keep posting here with stupid handle names and I am just deleting them by marking them as spam.

Hey Ramsey, go post on blogs you actually support. Like The Points Guy…oh wait.

Yeah- South Africa, India, Australia & NZ… Maybe add on a day trip to the moon while he’s at it?
Wife & I are both fully vaccinated & we found it too much of a hassle to book a weekend trip to Mexico

@ Carl: Thank you for loving my blog. Ramsey loves it too 🙂

Mile Nerd did the right thing. One day I am going to do the same…one day. Maybe when I get back to traveling…

I was into biking before discovering running. I had an amazing 2.5 year running stretch, I hate it to be over!

Right now, we are spending on daughter’s Companion Pass…tough doing it with a $2k line credit limit!

RIP ebayBucks!

Biden won, Trump lost…Because Trump is a LOSER! #losing

Ok “Andrew Cuomo”?

My side-gig/hobby of eBay is going away because that company seems determined to squeeze every penny AND bit of fun out of selling there that they can. Now they want all my bank info to be handled by Mystery People in some foreign country. Ah, well. 24 years of off and on selling helped pay for some good stuff.

Credit cards…. Points and miles is having trouble keeping me interested lately. I can’t go anywhere (read: won’t) until I am vaccinated and most people wherever I go are, as well.

Thinking of letting a few cards fall by the wayside and just saving some Annual Fees, as well. It might be time to reconsider a lot of my former future travel plans.

Maybe it’s just getting older? I love this blog and I wish Mile Nerd would come back to posting far more often. I still read FM and a couple other pumping blogs but some of the stuff there is just so obviously shilling and/or ridiculous… It took me a long learning curve to realize that and wish I had found this blog a lot sooner than I did. Lessons here are good ones!

Hope you heal up, George. There are other things besides running and have you considered biking instead?

Take care!

Dealing with some family issues in Greece right now…Not fun.

My left glute, commonly known as ass, is back hurting a lot again. 4 months now dealing with the same problem, I think God is sending me a message to retire from running…so much money blown on fixing it and no progress at all. %^$#@!

I have 51 Hyatt nights but can you guess how many nights I actually slept in a hotel?

Reading Frequent Miler’s post today about booking a RTW ANA award and a comment there made me lol:

>>>>>>>Just think! You can pick up every Covid variant in the World !

And the market is come back to being nuts…

TBBon!

I take my first trip next week!

One year ago, March 1st 2020. Dr Matt McCarthy’s assessment of COVID was spot on (on CNBC).

https://twitter.com/DrMattMcCarthy/status/1366391250836930562
Never forget how the CDC failed us.