I went over a little of Lima and Cusco in the first installment of my trip report. Unfortunately, we only had 7 days in Peru, and wanted to see several different sights, so I didn’t really get immersed that much in the cities. For more thorough looks at these places, check out Scott at Milevalue’s…
Andy: I’m back! My wife and I just got back from a Spring Break vacation down to to South America. We decided that if we get stationed overseas, it would be harder to visit there, so we might as well do it now while we’re still in the States and closer. I booked us business…
I have written a fair amount about Veterans Advantage over the last couple of years. It is a good deal for me and I have provided my analysis of whether it is a good deal for you. I had another conference call will the Veterans’ Advantage CEO, Scott Higgins, and their VP of marketing, Roy Asfar. The…
For almost the last 50 years, the venerable P-3 Orion performed anti-sub duties. It’s long overdue replacement, the P-8A Poseidon finally reached Initial Operational Capability (IOC) last year. Even though there are only a few deployed to the PACOM AOR, they have been thrown into the search for MH-370 over the Indian Ocean. I had dealt a little bit…
It is becoming quite fashionable to get non-plastic credit cards these days especially for the points and miles cards we like to use. There was a very interesting Wall Street Journal Market Watch article about the rise of these special cards and some fun facts behind them. I thought I would share. By Quentin Fottrell…
I think most Service Members are familiar with the standard four Armed Forces Recreation Centers (AFRC for short). They are all great deals for a resort hotel in very expensive areas. The four traditional hotels are: – Edelweiss in the German Alps – Shades of Green at Disneyworld – Dragon Hill in Yongsan Garrison Seoul…
We received an email the other day from one of our readers, @Alex, who emailed: Sir, I was able to get my fees waived for the United Mileage Plus Club Card and the rest of my Chase cards that I applied for after coming into the service. I did so by using my AMEX Platinum…
Chip & PIN cards are a type of credit card that holds some advantages over traditional magnetic stripe cards and even over chip & signature cards, the latter two of which make up the vast majority of credit cards in the US. The biggest advantage it has is it is a much higher level of…
By now you have all read many versions of the announced Delta Skymiles Program changes from our fellow bloggers or seen it on the network news. Lots of opinions, but how does this affect you given your particular flying patterns? Last year I did an analysis of Delta’s and United’s change to requiring Mileage Qualifying…
Since the end of 2012, I’ve been applying for credit cards every 3 months, or 90 days between each application. If you space it to 90 days or greater between each bank’s application, they’re more likely to approve you; <90 days gets flagged as having “too many recent applications”. And although many think that having…
