One area that I’ve not focused much attention on, is that of hotel credit card sign-up bonuses. The reason for this is simple; up to this point I have been solely focused on airline miles, and flexible points that will cover airfare. I have exactly no hotel cobranded cards in my wallet. (Unless you count […]
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Manifesto!
Free will is a sticky wicket. Our experience is that free will is everywhere: I want coffee so I grab a cup and lift it to my mouth, sip, and swallow. But there is growing evidence to suggest that free will is a mirage. In Libet’s famous experiment, he asked volunteers to record when they […]
Get This Party Started
My friend, I will just refer to him as “The Rev,” posed an interesting question to me. His family situation is very similar to mine in that he married an expatriate (in his case a German woman.) His consideration to enter the miles game comes from a very similar place to where mine came from, […]
Crisis of Faith
You may have picked up that I’m pretty bullish on this whole early retirement/travel hacking combo. How could I not be? I get to selfishly travel like a rockstar, build up my financial reserves, and gamble (with the odds in my favor!), all with the righteous feeling that comes from the knowledge that I am […]
A Unique Snowflake
Have you ever met someone who defied classification? If you have, I bet it’s been a while. Almost everybody has multiple layers to their personality. And most have diverse interests. But for the most part it’s pretty easy for each of us to be filed away accurately in discreet little categories. I am no different. […]
Ch Ch Ch Ch Ch Changes
I never could’ve predicted that one of my more popular posts would’ve been about dieting. Anyone who knows me knows that that is severely ironic. One of the benefits of writing such a post, however, is that it elicits some really interesting comments. And one such comment came from a friend in Hawaii. Her comment […]
Membership Has Its Privileges
In my previous post slippery slope, I talked about how the whole idea of spending money for status doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. The miles game, as I play it, is all about traveling for free. (And investing the savings for early retirement.) So spending money on mattress runs and mileage […]
Stealthy, Healthy, Wealth
In a utopian America as I would construct it, every day, every week, and every month would pass, with each of us not hungering for our next purchase. Instead we would regularly inspect our own lives much as a corporate raider inspects a company he has just taken over. We would fiendishly chuckle while looking […]
Why Should You Care About my Diet?
I’m not a huge fan of selfie-fied blogging or social networking. I understand that publishing your accomplishments online makes you more likely to stick to a plan, but frankly, I could give two shits how many miles you ran during your lunch hour today. To top it off I’m not really a big fan of […]
Friction
One of the blogs that I truly enjoy is saverocity.com. (Just look in my blogroll to the right.) Matt, who runs the blog, writes with great passion about both the miles game and financial planning. He’s a good writer with a lot of great ideas and I encourage you to check out his site. The post […]
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