Fellow mileage guru's!

I'm humbled by everyone's knowledge yet again. You can imagine its quite a lot of info to process, and pull together from about 500 threads. So surely making a few mistakes is just natural, as I get going on this process.

Hm I hadn't seen the advice that each pull is $500. That is good to know.

I didn't see the part about the Amtrak needing a $200 spend, argh. Then again, it's enough points for a cross-country train trip which I wouldn't mind doing!

As for Bali, it is very much paradise for half the year, but when the Aussie's are there en-mass (August'ish) and the rain is pouring for three days straight (Dec/Jan/Feb), I try to get to other places. 65,000 on United gets me to-fro the USA very nicely. Sadly, I can't seem to find any Delta redemption to get over there with my 160k miles....so trying to bank up my CO miles while I can.

Thanks for the advice!