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Travel Like a Pro

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Eric
May 26, 2017
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I was chatting with my friend Katie Ledoux (@kledoux) a few weeks ago about travel type stuff. She was totally stoked that, for the first time ever, she had status on an airline. Remembering that, I saw that her airline had a bonus for flights going to/from NYC. Since she lives in Boston, it should be pretty easy for her to route through NYC airports and earn the bonus.

When I shot her a quick note this morning about the bonus offer, Katie got excited all over again. I asked her if she had a travel credit card, and she said that was next on her “being a grown-up” list of things to do. Thinking about what travel credit card to advise her to get, I asked if she was loyal to a specific hotel chain. After saying “wow, imagine being fancy enough to prefer a particular hotel chain”, then Katie said to me “please advise” ….. hence the new blog tags of “please advise”, “being a grown-up” and “doing adulting right”.

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