Travel Blog

While I Twittered it last week, I wanted to point out another blog I started up recently: DrunkAndRetired.com Travel. I travel quite a lot (well, relative to my programmer life) and, as a systems type thinker, I’ve had fun walking around the loyalty programs, particularly, American Airlines’ AAdvantage program.

So, as with most things that I spend too much time doing, I started a blog for it to “write-out” my insomnia and boredom, if you will.

My plan is to simply “document” things (like how to get elite status), collect together links, and post “strategies” for getting more bonus miles, like using the eShopping site.

I’m by no means an expert on frequent travel “hacks,” so I welcome and relish all input. The funny thing is, even with having the blog out just over a week, I’ve gotten a lot of input from people already. There’ve been several comments already, and plenty of real-world bleed over: I had a fun talk with Gregg Sporar at the Lonestar Ruby Conference about optimizing AUS->SFO/SJC travel.

On the more general note of blogs, a nice effect of narrowly targeted blogs is that they’re easy conversation starters in meat-space. If the last week or so is any indication, I’ve got another easy & fun small-talk topic on my hands ;>