Tag Archives: cheap travel

How the AA/US Airways merger could get you 2 tickets to any of 64 countries

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Brad Christensen

Note: For a limited time the bonus on the US Airways Premier World MasterCard®  has been increased to 50k miles! This is a rough map of the destinations American Airlines serves which can be reached with 40k miles or fewer. By … Continue reading →

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The New Way to Get $400 in Free Travel

Posted on June 24, 2014 by Brad Christensen

Having spent the last three years signing up for a total of 39 credit cards to accumulate millions of frequent flyer miles and points that have been turned into tens of thousands of dollars in free travel, I have to … Continue reading →

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Travel to Italy, Spain, France, or Germany for Less Than $160 This Fall

Posted on February 17, 2014 by Brad Christensen

It was about this time last year that I booked my flights to Italy for $81 and 40,000 AAdvantage miles, so I indulged in a little fantasy and just started checking where could possibly go this fall with the 170k … Continue reading →

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I Make My Travel Decisions Like I Make My Vasectomy Decisions

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Brad Christensen

“Valium? Hell yes, I’ll have a Valium,” I say.  I’m not going to pretend I’m not nervous. Any procedure involving man-parts is uncomfortable, and the idea of being cut is unnerving, but you put those two together and, wow, we’re … Continue reading →

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Free Travel Sounds too Good to be True

Posted on February 17, 2013 by Brad Christensen

More often than not, our enthusiasm about free travel with credit card rewards is met with skepticism. A very common line of thought is that credit cards are dangerous. The world has rightly taught us that anything that sounds too good … Continue reading →

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Meeting Minimum Spending Requirements: Vanilla Reload Cards

Posted on October 28, 2012 by Brad Christensen

Our blog is about travel.  That’s our passion.  We love it.  We live it.  When I start to think about the moments that will flash before my eyes before I die… most of them will come from our travels.  I … Continue reading →

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