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Fun Facts from the Chase Sapphire Preferred Guide to Benefits
I wrote previously about the newly enhanced benefits of the Chase Sapphire Preferred card, but I thought I’d today share some of the more interesting tidbits from the Guide to Benefits. 1. Trip...
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On the Merits of Flying Coach Part 1: Cultivating Gratitude
Lots of travel bloggers out there focus on aspirational travel redemptions, and for good reason too, since flying first class is much more accessible/affordable via points or miles than via cash. But I...
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On the Merits of Flying Coach Part 2: Traveling More
See Part 1 regarding cultivating gratitude. This is perhaps obvious, but flying coach can be good because it’s cheaper than flying in business or first, which means you can take more trips using the...
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On the Merits of Flying Coach Part 3: Maximizing First Class
See part 1 on cultivating gratitude and part 2 on traveling more. This point is similar to part 1, but flying in coach makes flying in first class even better. By experiencing the inadequacies of...
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Thoughts from My Last Round of Credit Card Applications
Here are a hodgepodge of thoughts about my last round of credit card applications. 1) It seems that most of the telephone numbers listed on blogs for Bank of America’s credit card reconsideration line...
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Travel Stories from an Asian Man #6 (Shanghai Style)
Links to stories #1, #2, #3, #4, and #5. I’m a bad Asian. My parents are from Taiwan, but I don’t speak Mandarin very well, and I’m pretty much illiterate in Chinese. So I was a little nervous heading...
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Why Do American Flights Attendants Expect Everyone to Speak English?
To begin, a joke: What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual. What do you call someone who speaks two languages? Bilingual. What do you call someone who speaks one language?...
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Delayed Thoughts on Devaluations
I know that I’m super late to the game with this post, but I’ve been traveling a lot recently and work has been hectic and you clearly shouldn’t be using my blog as your only source of frequent flyer...
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Random Thoughts on Hong Kong
I am currently in Hong Kong for vacation. This is my first trip to Hong Kong, but I leave tomorrow so I can be back in the US to be with my family for Thanksgiving. Here are some random initial...
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Should You (Or I) Take Advantage of the US Airways Share Miles Promo?
US Airways is selling miles for 1.135 cents each again. This has been one of the best/craziest miles deals around for the past couple of years. At only 90k for a business class ticket to North Asia...
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Credit Cards I Currently Have
Like any good frequent traveler, I have a lot of credit cards (although I just cancelled 2!) Here’s a list of what I have (and have cancelled) and some preliminary thoughts on what I should get next....
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On the Merits of Traveling Alone #1: Doing What You Want to Do
When people ask me about my travels, a frequent follow-up question is if I’m going with anyone or if I’m visiting someone. And people often seem surprised when I tell them that I’m going by myself or...
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On the Merits of Traveling Alone #2: Learning What You Want to Do
My last post about traveling alone focused on the self-indulgent aspect of doing exactly what you want to do and nothing more. But an additional benefit of traveling by yourself is that it forces you...
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Random Travel Thoughts New Year’s Edition
I’m currently writing this from the Park Hyatt Tokyo, which is definitely the nicest and classiest hotel I’ve ever had the pleasure to stay at (granted, I haven’t stayed at that many hotels in my...
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Random Thoughts on Tokyo
1. Heated toilet seats are amazing. Why don’t we have them in the US? 2. Same with soft-boiled eggs. Or the not-quite-hard-boiled-but-not-runny eggs that are prevalent in ramen shops here. 3. Before...
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2013 Year in Review
Warning: This post is entirely self-indulgent. 2013 was a great year for many reasons, and January 1, 2013 was the inception of this blog. In 2012, I flew around 75k miles (all but 192 for leisure),...
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Planning My Next Round of Credit Card Applications (January 2014 Edition)
I’ve written in the past about my credit card strategy, and I usually have a pretty good idea of what I want to apply for during each round of applications, which I do every three months. But I’m...
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Should I Cancel My Chase Sapphire Preferred?
It’s almost February (how did that happen?), which means that the 7% dividend on the Chase Sapphire Preferred is going to post in addition to my annual fee. Last year, I convinced myself that it made...
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Random Thoughts on 2/3/14
I’m going to be on vacation (actual vacation!) for the next two weeks, so expect more sporadic posts. In general, this blog is increasingly hard for me to update with real content given my work and...
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Quick Thoughts on Thailand
I’m about halfway through my trip to Thailand, and it’s been incredible so far. Here’s are some quick thoughts so I don’t feel like I’m completely neglecting my blog (although I am). 1) I was initially...
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