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11 Mar. 2019

Travel Tune – March 10, 2019

Another song that I stumbled on during my recent round-the-world trip. I think I found the song on one of my favorite stations in the U.S. (KCRW), but can’t remember exactly where I heard it. It’s an acoustic track from an Australian songwriter. It’s nice, hope you like it too

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6 May. 2018

Fee Free Visa Gift Cards at Staples Today

Free Points For many this isn’t breaking news, but more of a friendly reminder. Starting today, through May 12th, Staples is running a promotion that waives the $6.95 fee for $200 Visa gift cards. More details can be found at a post from DoctorofCredit and the offer from Staples. The deal apparently is limited to

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13 Feb. 2018

Best New Manufactured Spending Blog of 2017?

Embarrased Even with a moniker like MillionMileGuy, I’m not much into self promotion. The moniker was chosen mostly for fun, but also because it’s an accurate way of looking at my award point accumulation and outlook each year. Earning a million award points was my first big goal in the points and miles hobby, and

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28 Jan. 2018

Cape Town Running Out Of Water

Running Dry It’s a paradox that a seaside city is running out of water, but that’s what is happening to Cape Town, South Africa. The city has a population of 3.7 million people and is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. In roughly 50 countries of travel, it’s the most scenic city

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21 Jan. 2018

Travel Bag Review: Wandrd Hexad Access Duffel

New Rooster in the Hen House? I geeked out a little on travel bags this year. Some small start ups, usually advertising through Kickstarter and other crowdfunding sources, seemed to have some innovative bags that grabbed my attention. I was drawn in enough to order a few of these seemingly “best bags” with hopes of

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11 Jan. 2018

Edina Public Schools Overtaken By Leftism

Another One Bites The Dust Before I start, it’s important to point out that I’m distinguishing between the Left and liberals in this country. There is a vast different between the two, with liberals having much more in common with conservatives than with the Left. For more clarity on the different between the Left and

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18 Nov. 2017

The OTHER Mint: Manufactured Spend In Canada

Deja Vu? Nearly anyone who’s been involved in the award points and miles hobby for any measurable length of time has heard about manufactured spending perfection, aka the US Mint Deal. As a brief recap, the US Mint, the government agency responsible for printing hard currency, wanted to get dollar coins back into circulation. So

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17 Nov. 2017

Best Websites For Points & Miles Beginners

At a local points meetup last night there were some new people that made it to the meeting, and a few of them were new to points and miles. Like we all were at a certain point it was easy for them to get lost in all the information. Here are some links to some

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