For anyone familiar with the movie Terminal, Tom Hanks plays a stranded passenger who is caught in limbo and is forced to live in the airport as he doesn’t have the required papers to leave. There’s a modern day example of this going on right now. Spaniard Rodrigo Ben-Azul flew to Chile to visit with…
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Monthly Archives for January 2013.
1000 Free Priority Club points are back
The 1000 Free Priority Club points for watching a video are back. Simply go to http://www.priorityclub.com/visa1000 and enter in promo code FLLNUVUAA37 The video is 90 seconds long and the points in the past have posted quickly. Please remember that there is only one code per Priority Club member. Here was the previous post on…
Purchasing travel gear on a budget
A lot of people who have discovered our hobby of collecting miles and points finally get to take their first vacation as a reward for participating in all of the promos, signing up for credit cards for the signup bonuses, and directing their spending to maximize the most points and miles on those cards. While…
Oppan Langham Hotel Style
Sorry, I couldn’t resist the terrible pun. Gary from View from the Wing posted a while back about getting free mid-tier Voyager status in the 1865 club (the year the The Langham hotel opened in London). Benefits include complimentary internet, welcome amenity, room upgrade and late check out of 6 pm, and free access to…
Do you really save anything with no foreign transaction fee cards?
There have been quite a few credit cards lately that are touting “no foreign transaction fees†– the up to 3% charge you usually get from your credit card for using your credit card overseas. Call me a cynic, but I’ve always questioned whether no foreign transaction fee cards were making their money back by…
Review – Leoda’s Kitchen and Pie Shop in Lahaina
Leoda’s Kitchen and Pie Shop After some snorkeling at Black Rock, we met some family for dinner at Leoda’s Kitchen and Pie Shop at the recommendation of our friends who had visited Maui earlier this year. This roadside diner, just minutes from the main resort areas of Lahaina, pops up unexpectedly on the Honoapi’ilani Highway…
My favorite travel blogs of 2012
As the year comes to a close and we all survived the end of the world – lots of “best of” lists are coming out. I thought I would share what I feel like were the five best travel blogs of 2012. The criteria of my list was blogs that made me want to come…
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