I have absolutely no status with Starwood.  I’m accidentally close to Gold with them, but hotels don’t recognize “close enough” as a status.  Keri has Platinum status, so I leech off her when we stay in a Starwood property. 🙂 So I was pleasantly surprised with the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown …

If you like listening to music when you travel, Amazon.com is giving away five different Christmas songs every five days. Check out this week’s selection here.  As a shameless lover of Christmas music, I’m a fan of getting Cyndi Lauper’s Blue Christmas!  

Or at least holding women back from jumping into the world of frequent travel? In an article last week, he uses scare tactics to warn people away from travel–calling frequent flier programs an unsustainable pyramid scam that benefits: The elite-level cardmembers perched in their first-class seats, sipping their mimosas, while …