Month: October 2025

In a resounding continuation of the theme of the year thus far for churners and MSers, a fresh wave of shutdowns hit this morning. As always, sorry to those affected, especially to a very well respected member of the community that was creating a lot of win-win opportunities. But the blog isn’t called chasing shutdowns…

With all of the crazy stuff going on in churning and MS right now, I wasn’t planning on posting anything this week. But hey, it’s Thursday, we’re more than halfway through the week, and most of us still have all of our fingers and toes. Instead of talking about what’s going on, I decided to…

There’s been a lot of mainstream media press on churning in the last couple of weeks, and whenever that happens, there is collective trepidation in the community that this is a bad thing that is going to cause too much exposure to the hobby.  I do get that, especially when the publications are household names…

Editor’s note: A big thank you to my friend @mforch who wrote this inaugural guest post live from Porto, Portugal. He comes to MS from the real estate and AP world and has a unique perspective on the game. Enjoy the post! Greetings from Porto! Yeah, I know, you didn’t ask for a guest post,…

Editor’s note: Sorry that posts have been few and far between the last week. I’ve been busy at my day job and had some email domain issues. If you’ve ever tried to fix a sender reputation problem, you would know it’s worth trying to figure out before sending again. Anyway, I have a backlog of…

P2 and I diving with guitarsharks in Morrungulo, a remote town on the coast of southern Mozambique Preamble I’ve had the idea for this post rattling around in my brain for a couple of weeks, but I decided to write it down after the sad news posted on One Mile at a Time last week. …