Destination: Napa

So our highlight post this week.

Our member Daniel, he did a really nice trip report.

It was very, very long, and he did more people ahead of time than it was long.

On his seven-country Africa trip using points and miles, he combined several different programs, transfer partners, cash fares, and lodging booking strategies in total for about 30 days, which I can't even imagine being gone that long.

I would be twitching.

I can't do it.

And that includes nights that he spent in the air.

They came out to $252 thousand total points, seven different African countries, points and miles.

Sorry, not just points because, you know, hotels don't call them, you know, miles in a combination of different programs and about thirty eight hundred dollars cash out of pocket.

So he did acknowledge that that was probably more cash than most people wanted to pay.

But it fits his strategy.

And, you know, I say it all the time.

There is no one way to play this game.

And a lot of times, you You know, it's easier for you to make more money than it is to earn more points.

So it might make sense.

It was 13 flights and 28 hotel nights.

And when you look at the trip report, he used eight different programs.

He used portals.

He earned a bunch of points on the cash component of it.

It was a pretty incredible trip.

I do also think that he was by himself.

So it's not like he was doing this for multiple people.

And that's where, you know, it can get tricky.

We had another member post a trip report in 201 where he took his family of six on around the world trip.

I saw that.