We live in Southern California. Closest airports are SNA and LGB, although we would fly out of LAX for international travel. As I mentioned we don't travel all that much (it has been a few years since last international travel), but we figure that we should be getting some rewards for our credit card usage. And obviously we want to earn some rewards for big purchases (wedding) in the next month or so. The goal is to be able to travel internationally every year or so, helped significantly by rewards from our spending. Places we travel tend to be less normal "touristy-places." Last trip was Malaysia via Singapore and our honeymoon will likely be the Maldives and India.

I am planning on purchasing a business within the next year or so (requiring bank lending), so I don't want to sign up for a bunch of cards, because of the ding it might have on my credit (800+). Once I have the business, I will probably be averaging several thousand $ a month on products with which I will be able to use credit cards.