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It’s a Wild Roller Coaster of a Ride, You Might As Well Learn to Enjoy The Ride – and Play The Game (Comps from CSMGR Part 3)

Part of life is about taking chances ~ sometimes you win and sometimes you lose but it’s that what makes it exciting? Honestly, I don’t know if I’ll be able to take these trips ~ the last three years have shown that life (and my knee) are pretty unpredictable but I want to give myself…

A Tale of Hubris: How My Travel Hacking with Status Matching Went Awry (Comps from CSMGR Part 2)

Part deux of my status match saga and when the story becomes a cautionary tale. Part one started the roller coaster ride with a few twists and turns, but here is where things get WILD. It’s like the flow chart that I had created thinking it would be easier to show visually but there were…

Travel Hack: Status Matches to Free Comps (Rooms, Cruises and more!) CSMGR Part 1

A WILD roller coaster of a year not only describes my knee also what happened with travel hacking. Planning this as a multi part series because it’s super involved with many moving parts. It will be ongoing with recaps of the trips I was able to score, but even crazier is that as I get…

Triple Dip with GoPuff Example/Offset Annual Fees (How to Maximize Spend)

By now, you may notice that one thing that I am constantly stressing is ‘make your money work for you’. It’s one of the reasons why I am a huge proponent of responsible credit card use in that you are being rewarded (and in the US, handsomely) for things that you were spending money on…

How to: Maximize Spend for More Points + Miles Double/Triple/Quadruple Dip Using Shopping Portals + Activating Offers + Earning Elite Status

How to: Maximize Spend for More Points + Miles (Promos + Dining Programs)

1.088 Million Miles?! What?! HOW? – FAQs

I’ve gotten quite a few questions about my recent points haul post so thought it would be helpful for some to see my answers. Here’s the first part to the most frequent FAQs! Recap/refresher: in four and and half months, I earned just under 1.1 million points (and miles!)

Life, Love, the Pursuit of Travel & Points x 2 Million…and Counting

Since mid-March, I have amassed just under 1.1 million miles and points and I will show you how in five months, I doubled my points total! (For simplicity sake, I will refer to all miles and points earned as points from here on out.) While this is admittedly an extremely amp up example, it also…

AMAZING Hilton Credit Card Offer with Free Nights (including on a NO annual fee

Now is the time to act on these incredible offers for Amex Hilton credit cards that now include Free Night Awards in the welcome bonus! It might be too good of a deal to pass on ~ so much so that I’m taking advantage of one as well!

8 Tips to Hack Your Way to Travel More and Better

Travel hacking: are you new to this idea or perhaps only have dipped your toes a bit into what is affectionately known as the game? Travel hacking can be thought of as maximizing how you travel – and can be as simple or complex as you want it to be. Here are some important ways…

Credit: Basics, Cards, Myths

I recently posted on a travel group asking for recommendations on how everyone was keeping track of miles/points/credit cards (IYKYK right? haha – I do plan on sharing what I came up with in a later post since it’s still evolving atm). It’s pretty interesting to see how travel hacking has gotten so mainstream over…

Life, Love, Travel & When Cake Turns Into Paris

My buddy reaches out to see if I would be able to do his girlfriend’s birthday cake and we start chatting about the trip he has planned for her. He confesses that he wishes that he could take her to her dream location since it’s her 30th birthday and I ask him where? His response:…