traveling with no particular purpose is kind of fun especially when you can enjoy comforts that are still special such as International 1st/Bus. class, airline clubs that you would not be able to enter under normal circumstances

I've done my fair share of mundane travel, mostly for business, it typically wasn't much fun and sometimes really sucked. now am able to leverage MR bookings into quick excursions, seeing one or two things, often flying int'l J and/or domestic F.

as it no longer resembles work it becomes play. expensive play, sometimes, but there's often a payoff in it later in terms of maxing out the elite status and opening the door for some really exotic awards.