Originally Posted by
SeattleFlyerGuy
Plus, speaking for myself, I enjoy traveling for the hell of it. It's fun to tell your friends that you flew to Chicago for a pizza and came back that evening. Or even better, to New York for the weekend or a week in Italy. There are dirt cheap fares to be had and life is too short to put travel off, in my opinion. The more miles I earn in the process of traveling, the more I can travel and travel with upgrades to boot.
Whether it's worth it to you will depend on your travel patterns. But yes, this is how we do.

Exactly. Quoting the words my Business Law professor once spoke to me, "Travel when you have barely got the money, but lots of time. Don't wait until you have the money, and no time. I regret everyday that I didn't travel as much as I could during my younger years. Now, its hard for me to go on a 2 day business trip and not feel guilty about missing something back to home."
For me, this words started it alllll.
As others have said, welcome to FT!