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This will be a short and sweet email. The extraordinary deal of $1000 added value on the Capital One Venture Card is going away next Monday, May 12. Don't pass this up.

And, while you're at it, think of signing up for Daily Drop Pro. If you're not willing to commit to the pro version, there's always the free version of Daily Drop.

See below for more info.

💸 This Week's Best Deals in Travel

• The countdown is on! This is the last call for one of the year’s best travel credit card offers. The Capital One Venture Card current welcome offer to earn 75,000 miles after spending $4,000 in 3 months and a $250 Capital One Travel credit in your first cardholder year That’s $1,000 worth of travel waiting for you for an annual fee of only $95. Don’t let this one get away from you. The offer ends May 12. An example of how to use these points: Tom flew round trip from Minneapolis to Amsterdam last year for 70,000 points, and, if he'd got this deal when he got his Venture Card, he could have applied the $250 to a hotel stay there. Make your next adventure happen today.
• Also, speaking of points and miles (and cheap fares in general), Daily Drop Pro is now $30 off an annual membership. Daily Drop Pro is a tool we use all the time. You can enter your origin airport(s) and they will email you regularly with all the deals that fit your criteria. Also, you can go to their page any time and put in specific search criteria and it will find the best deals on airfare out there. If you only use their info once, you'll more than pay for the annual fee. As an example of what's out there, Daily Drop Pro told us today that there are roundtrip flights from our home in Minneapolis to Madrid, Spain for only $487 this fall. That's too good of a deal to pass on.

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📖 What We're Reading

Tom is starting the second book of the Three-Body Problem trilogy, The Dark Forest, by Cixin Liu. Some of the most interesting and challenging science fiction ever.

For our previous book recommendations, check out this list.

❝Travel Quote of the Week❞

Now, looking back on my life in Africa, I feel like it might altogether be described as the existence of a person who had come from a rushed and noisy world, into a still country. ― Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)

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Kris and Tom

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