Remember the guy who earned over a million miles by buying 12 thousand pudding cups? This hack might not get you 1.2 million miles, but it will get you nearly 10,000, and it’s a LOT easier. And before you turn your nose up at 10,000 points that m…
Webinar recording: How to turn Chase Sapphire Preferred’s Signup bonus into $1000 to $15,000 in travel benefits
Ever feel like the airlines have a gun to your head when you NEED to fly somewhere? Here’s a guaranteed method to turn the tables on them. Don’t want to watch the whole 60 minutes? Click here to read a summary in another blog post. Click on…
Chase Sapphire: 80,000 point signup bonus
Chase Sapphire has some of the most valuable and most diverse points in the industry – and they’re currently offering an 80,000 point signup bonus. If you haven’t explored the world of point-hacking, this is a great way to start. For …
Positioning flights (Advanced travel-hacking strategy)
A positioning flight is a flight someone takes out of a different airport than their own when they can fly for cheaper from that airport. It’s a bit of an advanced strategy experienced travelers use to get cheaper international flights. The advan…
Positioning flights (Advanced travel-hacking strategy)
A positioning flight is a flight someone takes out of a different airport than their own when they can fly for cheaper from that airport. It’s a bit of an advanced strategy experienced travelers use to get cheaper international flights. The advan…

SAN > Warsaw, Poland: $811 round-trip – Aug-Oct [SOLD OUT]
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available. * This is a rarely found ” flight…
The best way to save big on lodging (that is overlooked 90% of the time.)
Today’s blog post was inspired by a question I get asked almost as often as “can you beat the price I found for flights to _______“? (And for the record; No – I don’t do price quotes – even if it’s for a $25,00…
Ummmmm… Hell no.
[TL;DR? Watch a video at the bottom of this post instead.] I bargained with my sophomore son and told him if he took a free ACT practice test on Friday, he could take a friend snowboarding today. I was going to go boarding today too, but it was NEGATIV…
“I wish I could travel like you”
Every time my wife & I get together with friends, they comment on our most recent Facebook travel pictures saying “I wish I could travel like you.” The funny thing is… if you want to travel like me, all you have to do is… Tr…
Traveling affordably (with no math involved)
In case you didn’t know it. I’m a numbers guy. My co-author and I wrote a book about cracking Google’s algorithm with paid advertising (Google AdWords for Dummies), and after that, Google hired us to write two books for them to give t…
Coming to you from the future
Hey. I know this is weird, but this is the future you, and I just got in a time-machine. I’m contacting you from 6 months in the future because I’m (we’re) in a bit of a bind… So our friends John & Sally are going to have to…