Cereal Traveler
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 04.01.02 | 7:41 PM ET
We at World Hum love to travel, and we like all sorts of cereal, so we send out a hearty “Bravo!” to the resourceful and intrepid Lori Mayfield. After a bout of forgetfulness, she was left ticketless just weeks before a planned trip to India. Mayfield could have shelled out $4,500 for last minute airfare. Instead, she discovered that Kellogg’s was offering 100 frequent flyer miles with proof of purchase of certain cereals. Off to the market she went.
“No one thought to list it in the specs of the car owner’s manual,” she writes in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times, “but you can fit a lot of cereal into a Saab—160 boxes, actually, with just enough room to see out of the rear window.” The miles earned by buying $600 worth of cereal, combined with the miles Mayfield already had, secured her a business class ticket to India. The cereal, by the way, didn’t go to waste. Mayfield either sold or donated the unused boxes. Next time, Lori, feel free to send some our way. We like Cracklin’ Oat Bran.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
