Miles and Points
Earlier I wrote a post on how The Gold Mine of Points Earning is Promotions. That is a post on how innovating earns more miles than anything else. While I won't be blowing any gold mines here today, I wanted to go over the thought process.
Baby steps though. If you're new to this, chill... start with the low hanging fruit.
Here I'll be giving some tips on how I think innovation is made more likely, and we'll apply this strategy to an example.
Combining what you know.
Read moreI'm going to follow up my United series on showing United stopover options for different destinations, with a series on choosing the best miles to each destination. Here my aim is to give ideas for the cheapest (miles and cash) and best routes to fly from the US to Europe.
There are tons of programs to collect miles with or transfer points to, but this will show the best options. The best in price of miles, the best in fuel surcharges, and best in terms of stopovers. I think you'd be surprised on what is consistently the best option!
Read moreAgree with my philosophy on travel, or not, it doesn't matter, I think most people can appreciate openness. Plus, there's a lot to learn when someone puts themselves out there, or at least I hope so.
My wife and I are trying something new. We're splitting into two blogs. Hers will be thetravelventure.com and we'll obviously still work together but have different styles and themes.
For one year, we are publishing all our expenses. Points and cash, travel and not travel. It will all be made public.
We actually started the project August 1st with a site to...
Read moreIs travel free? Yes. Free, freeing and at the very least, cheap.
Before we say that travel is or isn’t free, we have to accurately determine the actual cost of travel and to do this, one must first define "travel".
Travel is inherently free
In it's very nature, travel is free. Why? because travel is seeing a new place and a new culture. It is to go from one place to another. It has few restrictions. It is not seeing China, it is not seeing Brazil... but it is going someplace.
This is not to...
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