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There are three Delta cards with 50,000 mile bonus offers that end today September 8, 2014.

The Gold Delta SkyMiles® Credit Card is the basic personal card. It offers 50,000 bonus miles after spending $1,000 in the first 3 months.

Last week I urged people to be realistic with their miles and listed The Easiest Places to Get with Miles. Today I'm telling you to dream big and to look to do things with miles that you couldn't easily or cheaply do without miles.

For instance, for 60,000 miles, you can book yourself a "triangle trip" that lets you practice your Spanish in Chile and Spain.

Yesterday, I flew a United 777-200 equipped with the carrier's latest entertainment concept: I could freely stream hundreds of movies and TV shows on my own laptop or United's iOS app.

Yesterday I wrote about the Four Easiest Places to Go with Miles.

Colombia was part of one of the regions that has plentiful award space, and it is on my radar at the moment as I book myself a two week trip there next month.

The problem is that award space is so good that I have way too many options. I haven't been able to book the outbound yet because there are ways to book it for 15,000 to 17,500 miles one way with all three alliances.

A generous "Cave Dweller" has donated four Southwest drink coupons that expire December 31, 2015. I'm going to give two each to two lucky winners.

If you're flying Southwest before then, leave a comment explaining why you could use a few drinks.

Cathay Pacific First Class is:

awesome: full trip report
cheap: 67,500 American Airlines miles one way between the United States and East Asia
easy to book with miles

Cathay Pacific operates six-seat First Class cabins between the United States and Hong Kong, so there aren't many seats to give away, and yet Cathay Pacific manages to regularly offer one seat up to 11 months before departure on tons of flights.

Me in Cathay Pacific First Class about to catch some ZZZZs

Cathay Pacific is also one of the airlines that releases a lot of

Where are the easiest places to get with frequent flyer miles, especially if you're just starting out?

I started thinking about it because I had a string of very tough requests through my Free Credit Card Consultation form. One in particular read:
Been following your site for about a year and haven't been able to jump in. Shame on me. It's all very overwhelming for a newbie even though you break it down well. [Scott: Agreed, but it doesn't have to be.

Last week, Citi announced that ThankYou Points are now transferable to Air France/KLM Flying Blue miles.

Edit 9/3/14: Readers are reporting that Air France and Delta cannot ticket all the space shown on airfrance.us. There may be some sort of glitch. I'll try to get to the bottom of this.

Award space is wide open in economy and business class between the United States and Argentina for the next 11 months, including award space over the peak December to March summer period.

You can book this award space on wide-open Aerolineas Argentinas flights with your Delta or Flying Blue miles.

From September 2 - 30, 2014 US Airways is offering all Dividend Miles members the chance to purchase miles with up to a 100% bonus. Many past offers have been targeted, but not this one.

During the promotion, you can buy up to 50,000 US Airways miles and get a 100% bonus in miles. That means you can get 100,000 US Airways miles for $1,881 total or 1.88 cents each.

This deal is very common.