Another Throwback Thursday to an old trip report – I was in Christchurch for work visiting Caterpillar dealerships. We had previously been places like Little Rock, AR and Boise, ID and it was quite a nice experiencing getting to bounce…

Christchurch, New Zealand

Million Mile Secrets – Gift Card Winners
As I noted from the interview feature Million Mile Secrets generously gave me, I’d be giving away a $15 Starbucks gift card to someone who hopefully likes SBUX, and a $25 Shell gift card to someone who hopefully likes gasoline.…

Flight Review: SK946 SAS A330-300 Business Class Chicago to Stockholm
I’ll make this brief as I usually don’t find these too fascinating. My taxi (mommy) dropped me off at Terminal 5 at O’Hare, for international airlines. I’m flying on a United Star Alliance ticket split between SAS Scandinavian Airlines and…

Where Can I Play Blazing Lazers in Stockholm?
I’ve foregone the typical SEO travel blog titles like “Top 5 Things To Do In Stockholm” to provide you, internet, the burning information you’ve been dying to know (although were perhaps unsure you were dying to know it) – where…

I’m On Million Mile Secrets!
I’m on Million Mile Secrets as part of their Big Travel with Small Money interview series! Thanks so much to Emily and Daraius for the feature. As a thanks to any new visitors I’ll be giving away a couple of gift…

What Does A Successful Manufactured Spend Run Look Like?
As noted in the Beginner’s Guide, certainly the low hanging fruit in the game of collecting points and miles is from credit card sign ups. However, those are neither infinitely available (which is why more than one person working helps)…

Travel Tip: How to Avoid Blisters
So, I do a fair bit of hoofing around usually while I travel. I was in Berlin with a buddy for near a week while he was working, so plenty of walking around for me to do during the day.…

Credit Score: An Update
Recently picked up an Alaska Airlines card. I might have made a mistake? Or they did… thought I’d be getting points although when activating the CSR said something about a $100 rebate and no points… which is greater than the…

Machine Guns Vegas
Was out at a convention in Las Vegas for work, and “unfortunately” had to take a break from the presentations to take out customer for entertainment. We left early and headed out to Machine Guns Vegas to entertain him through…

Major American Airlines Frequent Flyer Program Changes
American Airlines just announced a ton of changes to their AAdvantage program, effective immediately and pretty much all awful. Notable for the fun points world being a little less fun: I recently wrote about some of the travel tricks…