Good morning everyone, I hope your weekend is off to a great start. There are a few blog post ideas floating around in my head, so I wanted to ask you guys what you would want to read about. I will still post random AMEX Offer posts and other random deals as they come up, but I also want to get some of these ideas out of my head and onto the web.
Thank you for your help and have a great weekend everyone!
Good morning everyone. As part of my 2016 New Years resolutions, I want to organize more local meetups to talk about miles, points, cash back, and maybe even travel. Since my last “unofficial” SF meetup was back on August 15, I’m sure there are quite a few things to catch up on. I apologize for the short notice invitation, but I hope some of you can make it. Technically, we can’t do a “meetup” without “meat”, so I’ve decided to take my talents back to Super Duper Burgers on Market Street (located between Montgomery and Powell Street BART stations).
After this meetup, I will be in Europe for 2 weeks (Jan 16-31) and I will organize a South Bay / Peninsula meetup for Saturday Feb 6 (day before Super Bowl Sunday). If anyone lives nearby, do you have any good restaurant recommendations that are easily accessible by CalTrain and walking?
If you think you might be able to make the SF Meetup, please let me know so I can get a rough estimate. If you have any questions, please leave a comment below. Have a great Sunday everyone!
Good morning everyone. It is now January 2 and I am sure half of the New Years Resolutions are already broken. I’m not sure if reading about anyone else’s New Years Resolutions is better than making/breaking your own, but we will give it a shot in this blog post. “Experts” say that writing down your resolutions will increase the likelihood of them happening, so I’m sure typing them and sharing them with the world will make them practically guaranteed. For simplicity, I divided my resolutions into 3 sections: blog, travel, and life. Enjoy :)
In 2015, I had almost 1.2 million total page views. Divide that by 12 months and you get 100,000 total page views per month. Divide that by 30 days and you get 3,333 total page views per day. My goal for 2016 is to average 5,000 total page views per day, which would be 150,000 total page views per month, and 1.8 million total page views in 2016. Achievable? Definitely! It will only take a few more blog posts per month. I consistently tell myself to write 1 blog post per day, but that is too ambitious at times. I will go with 5 blog posts per week and see what happens. I will continue to answer as many reader comments, questions, and emails as possible and hopefully redesign the site’s appearance and enhance the mobile layout.
Good morning everyone. As the end of the year quickly approaches, I wanted to remind those of you that have a JPMorgan Chase Ritz Carlton Credit Card to max out your $300 travel reimbursement credit by December 31, 2015. I have talked about the travel reimbursement credit several times in the past (once, twice, and thrice), but you still have time to take advantage of the offer in 2015. If you are unsure how much of your $300 travel reimbursement credit you have left, call the number on the back of your Ritz Carlton credit card to find out. I called last week and was told that I had $36.53 left for 2015. Spoiler alert: I maxed out the travel reimbursement credit for 2015.
Good evening everyone. A few days ago, I learned that Google Flights can also show train schedules for a few routes in Europe. This is a pretty cool feature since you can easily determine if a train ride is better deal than a short European flight.
I did some digging and found this article posted on the Google Travel Blog:
Now Google Flights makes it easy to compare the time and cost to ride vs. fly when trains are a logical and good alternative to many flight routes in Europe.
We started by adding train options for routes in Italy and Spain. Today we’re excited to announce a partnership with Deutsche Bahn in Germany to bring their expansive, fast rail service to Google Flights.
This launch lets you use Google Flights to find train options for 56 destinations and nearly 400 routes across Germany and Northern Europe. Popular routes include domestic routes like Frankfurt-Munich and Hamburg-Stuttgart, as well as international routes like Zurich-Frankfurt and Frankfurt-Amsterdam. Continue reading