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Random News: Amazon Winners, Discover It 2Q, SF UberPool, Barclays Aviator, and Hyatt Regency Dubai

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Good morning everyone, thank you to everyone who entered my giveaway and shared what you were most looking forward to in March.  The winners are…

  • Chantal – have a great time taking your engagement photos!  (My cousin and her fiance recently took their engagement photos in Santa Cruz and it looked really fun!)
  • Seth – it is awesome that you were able to help your friends and family members travel, sharing is caring.
  • Luke – have a great road trip from Phoenix to Flagstaff to the Grand Canyon.  I recently did a similar trip and shared my experience here.
  • Spencer – I’ve booked a few trips from the West Coast to Hawaii using Avios.  Probably one of the best travel deals available.  Learn more about Avios to Hawaii here.

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New Cross-Promotion: Earn SPG Points on every Uber Ride

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Good evening everyone, I was about to go to bed when I saw this awesome new cross-promotion from Uber and SPG on Twitter.  Uber and SPG have teamed up to offer 1 SPG Point for every dollar you spend with Uber (details).  Free SPG points are free SPG Points.  To get started, go to the registration page here and sign into your SPG account.

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Guest Post: How to Make the Most of a Weekend Trip

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The other day, I was tweeting with my friend Josh @ FrugalHack.me and I asked him if he wanted to write a guest post for me.  I have been following Josh’s blog for a few months and I like his writing style and topics (he covers MS strategies and cash back deals).  If you like reading Travel with Grant, you will probably like reading FrugalHack.me as well.  With that said, take it away Josh…

There’s no doubt that my wife and I love weekend trips.  Truthfully, we’d like them to be longer, but we just don’t have the vacation time to use.  So, we just make do with what we have and it works, quite well actually.

These trips aren’t long, hence the “weekend” part, so there really needs to be a game plan in place to make sure the time off is well used.  I don’t want to brag, but now that we’ve taken quite a few of these weekend trips, we’re kind of experts at making the most of them.

Want to learn how to do it?  Of course you do! :)

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Recent Tech Funding: Uber $1.6B, Raise Gift Cards $56M, Shazam $30M, Chime $8M, and RadPad $2M

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After moving to the Bay Area, home of the tech startup, I learned about a website called Crunch Base, which is a big database full of information regarding some of the my favorite companies.  You can find information about pretty much any tech company, big or small, new or old, all in one place.  I received an email from them this morning about some recent funding (debt financing, venture funding, etc.) and thought it would be fun to share.

If you want to learn more about the following companies, check out their Crunch Base pages:

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New AMEX Offers: AT&T, J Crew, BBQ Galore, HSN, Omaha Steaks, The Outnet, Way Fair, and Brooklyn Industries

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New AMEX Offers: AT&T, J Crew, BBQ Galore, HSN, Omaha Steaks, The Outnet, Way Fair, and Brooklyn Industries

Good morning everyone, another day and another round of AMEX Offers for you.  If you have an American Express Business Credit/Charge Card, you should have this AT&T offer linked to one of your cards.  Unfortunately, I do not have any AMEX business cards, so I am not eligible.  Learn more about the AT&T offer at Running with Miles.

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Here is a round up of the other newest AMEX Offers:

J Crew AMEX OfferBBQ Galore AMEX Offer

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