One of the archetypal American frontiersmen, Daniel Boone is buried in Frankfort Cemetery with his wife Rebecca on a high bluff overlooking Kentucky's capital city. However, people from Missouri, where Boone spent the last 20 years of his life, might have you believe otherwise.
Daniel Boone led one of the earliest waves of settlers into Kentucky County, then part of Virginia. His story was published by John Filson (with some embellishment) in 1784, which was then translated into various European languages, and establishing his myth in the new United States and the world. Failures in land speculating would lead to Boone relocating to present-day West Virginia and later Missouri to continue hunting and trapping until his death in 1820.
He was buried near Marthasville, Missouri just west of St. Louis, but in 1845 both Daniel's and Rebecca's bodies were disinterred and moved to Frankfort Cemetery. There is disagreement to this day as to whether the Boones' bodies are the proper ones, or if some are in Kentucky and some in Missouri.
I don't usually like using points for non-travel awards, but there are two exceptions--to keep points from expiring, and when there's the opportunity to use a big travel company or bank's contacts to get access to the kind of life events you can't possible set up on your own.
Starwood has a new set of experiences that you can use your points for starting this morning, including luxury suites at a series of venues and intimate concerts at their hotels. Definitely worth seeing if there's something that matches your interests, and you have my permission to use your Starpoints for something other than transfers to American, Alaska, or Japan Airlines miles....
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Best Western has just announced their spring promotion, Jump Start To Summer. Through this promotion, Best Western is offering a $50 Best Western Travel Card after two hotel stays.
The basic terms of the promotion are as follows:
-- The promotion is valid for stays between April 6 and May 25, 2015
-- Upon successful completion of the promotion, the electronic Best Western gift card will be sent to members via email 2-3 weeks after the second qualifying stay is completed
-- You have to redeem the Best Western Travel Card for a stay by September 7, 2015
-- Each Best Western Rewards member can only earn one bonus during the promotion period
-- An eligible stay is defined as one which is eligible for points accrual
-- Registration is required in order to be eligible for the promotion, and can be done by entering your Best Western Rewards number or email address on the promotion page
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Last August I wrote about how the TSA was planning on tightening up Pre-Check, and limiting it to those who have enrolled in a Trusted Traveler Program (TSA Pre-Check, Global Entry, NEXUS, etc.). As I explained at the time, roughly 45% of domestic passengers were getting Pre-Check, despite only a small minority of them having actually signed up for a Trusted Traveler Program.
From a safety perspective I don't have an issue with that, since I tend to think taking off your shoes and jacket, and taking out your laptop and liquids, is more security theater than anything else.
That being said, from a passenger experience perspective it really pisses me off, since most of the passengers that were getting Pre-Check didn't get how it worked, so slowed down the line substantially.
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