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The benefits of anxiety while flying

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on November 6, 2014 | Featured

For the past few years, I’ve flown over 25,000 miles each year, a respectable distance. With such a experience, you would think that I would have no problems with anxiety while flying. You would be wrong. But I consider … Read More … Read More

Tags: acceptance, anxiety, fear, flying

How to save money on airfare by purchasing frequent flyer miles

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on July 28, 2014 | Featured

Frequent flier miles can be a really amazing tool for seeing the world. I used miles to travel in international business class when I came home from Europe earlier this year, and while it was a bit of an … Read More … Read More

Tags: flying, frequent flyer miles, miles, travel, travel hacking

The lesson I learned from the pre-flight safety announcement

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on March 17, 2014 | Featured

After a lot of flying, many of the things we endure (security screening, etc) we tend to look at in different ways, the way that saying a word over and over slowly rotates the word in your head until … Read More … Read More

Tags: charity, children, flying, giving, helping

How to plan for award travel when you’re an infrequent flyer

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on February 6, 2014 | Featured

While some folks who read this site are avid travelers, zooming around the globe as frequently as a satellite, others may fly infrequently and think that award travel is completely irrelevant to them. Nonsense. Award travel is open to … Read More … Read More

Tags: airlines, award travel, flying, frequent flyer, frequent flyer miles, travel, travel hacking

Is it possible to be with more than one … airline?

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on December 16, 2013 | Featured

I never realized that when we met, it would last so long. I remember it well. It was 2001, and I was on my way to Burning Man. I was terribly late in getting to the airport, too late, … Read More … Read More

Tags: airplanes, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, elite status, flying, polyamory, relationships, travel, US Airways

How to book an award ticket in 785 easy steps

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on March 7, 2013 | Featured

In my last post I talked about how adventure shouldn’t be postponed. To this end, I decided to redeem some of my frequent flyer miles for the first time ever. … Read More

Tags: adventure, flying, travel

Don’t let your adventures expire

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on March 4, 2013 | Featured

I’ve been collecting frequent flyer miles for over a decade, when I bought one of my first plane tickets on US Airways and absentmindedly signed up for their Dividend Miles program. At the time, it didn’t seem possible that … Read More … Read More

Tags: adventure, flying, frequent flyer, travel

flying

The benefits of anxiety while flying

How to save money on airfare by purchasing frequent flyer miles

The lesson I learned from the pre-flight safety announcement

How to plan for award travel when you’re an infrequent flyer

Is it possible to be with more than one … airline?

How to book an award ticket in 785 easy steps

Don’t let your adventures expire

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