Author: Edward Pizzarello

My goal in life is to fill my family’s passports with stamps, creating buckets of memories along the way. You’ll find me writing about realistic ways for normal people to travel the world, whether you’re on a budget or enjoy luxury. I also enjoy taking us on the occasional detour to explore the inner workings of the travel industry.

My Elite Status Plans for 2012

Traditionally, when you earn status with an airline or hotel program, it expires at the end of February in the year following your most recent qualification.  So, if you earn Executive Platinum for the 2011 qualification year, that status would expire on February 29,…

Milepoint Adds a 7th iPad Giveaway

A couple of weeks ago, I posted about the Freddie Awards and the fact that Milepoint was giving away 6 new iPad 3s for people who registered for Milepoint and voted in the Freddie Awards. Well, Randy decided we weren’t generous enough, and has…

Duke v UNC Tonight

Tonight’s game against UNC should be a pretty good testament to the type of tournament team we’ll be.  It’s not a good matchup for us.  While Austin Rivers has gotten better at involving other players on offense, he likes playing defense about as much…

A Reply From United

I rarely send complaint e-mails to the airlines.  I guess I’ve just amortized in some level of bad service (kind of like expecting McDonald’s to get your order right 70% of the time). For some reason, the blanket thing struck me as extremely cheap,…