This is a couple hours old, but Rick Santorum won the Minnesota primary (and won a nonbinding event in Missouri). I’m thoroughly confused. I kept waiting for Rick Santorum to drop out of the race after failing to pick up any appreciable amount of…
AA has announced a 1,000 point bonus for your first dine as a member of their dining network. The link is behaving a bit wonky right now, so you might have to use this one. This is an easy 1,000 miles if you haven’t…
Traveling for work has it’s high points. But, there’s a lot of crappy beds, late planes, rude employees and other distractions that make the travel less fun than it used to be. So, what are the upsides? For me, lifetime status is definitely one…
I’ve stayed on the sidelines of this discussion for quite a while now. But I do have some strong feelings, and figured it was time to jot some of them down. I’m an AA loyalist. I’ve flown half a million miles on AA, my…
Another one where we had to sweat it going down the stretch! It felt horrible to drive the ball twice in the second half and only come away with field goals. We were still trailing by a couple of points, and their offensive line…
Japan on a 787!!!! I just got from my third MegaDO event (second as an organizer). Read more about MegaDO here. Articles are upcoming by the AP and USA Today as well. The general gist is a group of people who are as crazy…
It’s been a hot and cold year for the Giants. I’ve watched our team win some games that I didn’t think we could win, and lose plenty of games we should have won. Despite a large amount of injuries, we’re the healthiest we’ve been…
As reported by ESPN, the federal government has elected to close it’s investigation into whether Lance Armstrong doped while riding professionally for the US Postal Service team. I’ll admit, I thought this outcome was unlikely. Jeff Novitsky was the federal agent who decided…
Along with my previous post about how easy it is to accrue points and miles, I thought it would be a good idea to illustrate the difference in value between various points and miles. I think this is one of the most overlooked comments…
The most common thing I hear from friends and family is that they don’t bother collecting frequent travel points because it’s “hard”. Besides, they say, you can never redeem them anyway. Too much work for not enough return. I decided to try to do…