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Sundance & Bay Area Trip recap
I spent the last week of my winter break visiting some homies in my old stomping grounds (aka Northern California) and attending the Sundance Film Festival in Utah (a life long goal). I gave myself a $500 spending budget for the week and I spent $514 so I am very proud of myself for sticking…
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Travel hacking has affected my credit score!
With all my travel hacking from last year, I wanted to give an update on how my credit score is doing. I recently closed my Barclay American Airline Aviator Mastercard. I wrote about it here. It gave me 50,000 AA points after I made 1 purchase last year. It was the easiest card I’ve hacked.…
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I’ve made a decision!
In my final attempts to decide between 5 schools with full-tuition scholarships, I visited Yale in New Haven, Connecticut. This is trip 1 of MANY in 2024. Last year, I went on 10 trips and saved $3450 on flights by travel hacking. I wrote all about those trips in my Travel section of the blog.…
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Chase United Explorer card
Second credit card review! For those new to the blog, in 2023, I opened 6 credit cards and saved over $4000 on 6 trips through travel hacking this year (Pittsburg, Boston, Canada, North Carolina, Japan & Nigeria). This card is part of the Chase Gauntlet. Here are some other cards in this gauntlet. I had…
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Get Delta Amex Gold card!
Welcome to the beginning of my credit card review series. For those new to the blog, in 2023, I’ve opened 6 credit cards and saved over $4000 on 6 trips this year (Canada, Pittsburg, Boston, North Carolina, Japan & Nigeria). My first card recommendation is the Delta Amex Gold. For the first credit card to…
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A free night in Boston
80,000 Hilton points later and I got 1 free night baby. I got my Hilton Surpass Card (AMEX) back in February. At that time they were having a bonus of 140,000 points. Which is equivalent to about 3 nights (if you’re better at planning than me). It’s the same card that I wrote about last…
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Free.99 Lounge Access
After my last 3 experiences using lounges at the airport during my Nigeria trip, I don’t think I can go back to the peasant life. I’m calling all of us that never use lounges – peasants! JK JK Lounges have free meals and a comfortable quiet place to wait for your flight. Some lounges even have…
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Pittsburgh trip review
My day begins at oh so crusty 2 o’clock in the morning. As I sat in the airport Uber listening to my Uber driver spit multiple sunflower seeds or tobacco into an empty bottle, I was excited for the weekend ahead of me. I was finally going to the 2nd seminar for MLT. My Uber driver…
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A free night in Vegas
This happened a month ago but I recently thought about how exciting it was. What were the odds of getting a free extra night in Vegas on someone else’s dime? I went for an inspirational work-related conference in Las Vegas. It was already free since it was company sponsored. I ate Virgil’s BBQ every day…
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Travel Hack “Fail” #3
I bought a one way ticket returning from Boston in July with 20,000 United Miles + $215. I am flying to Nigeria in July and will be returning to Boston for the last MLT MBA Prep conference. I consider it a win in some ways and a fail in some other ways. Either way, I…
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