Youd think with all the travelling Dave and I do, wed have thousands of airline reward miles racked up and are flying all over the place for free!

That is not the case at all.

Over the years, we have been terrible at keeping track of our rewards miles and simply end up looking for the cheapest flight to get us from point A to point B on a charter airline that doesnt give anything back to customers for choosing their product.

We have come to the conclusion that this is a very big mistake.

We decided during our last set of travels that we were going to take action and start to accumulate points once and for all.

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Legendary travel writer Paul Theroux talks to wandermelon about his latest book, The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road.

Paul Theroux has spent 50 years traveling the globe and sharing his adventures with readers. The prolific travel writer first gained notoriety with The Great Railway Bazaar, an account of his train travel between London and Japan. He has also written 28 novels from regions like Britain, Patagonia, the South Pacific, Asia, and Africa.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In his latest book, The Tao of Travel, the author offers readers a glimpse at what he calls my personal anthology.

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As I shared a few days ago, I had grabbed The Travel Photographer brand name in as many blogs and social sites that I could…and I’ve now decided to air some of my images which are on display on The Travel Photographer Tumblr blog.

As you’ll see, I’ve used the theme known as Boston Polaroid, which allows the largest size of images I’ve seen on ready-made blog platforms. I’ve also uploaded on it photographs that received the Flare “treatment” which I’ve lauded its “fun” factor before.

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