thanks, i'll check into PC.

My primary focus has been airline miles, since I know we will need them to visit our various kids, and I'm assuming we can generally stay with them (and not a hotel) when we do so. Of course, this is mostly for my wife, since she will presumably be visiting mostly (since most of our kids are daughters and married and she wants to go and help them set up new places, etc). I'll get to stay home and be "mr mom" for the kids while she takes advantage of MY miles.


However, I do have this dream of a "second honeymoon" on our 35th anniversary (in 18 months or so) with her for a week in hawaii, since our first anniversary (seems so long ago..since it was!) was 3 days on the jersey shore, and since then we've only managed a few weekends off alone since childcare has been so tricky with so many special needs kids. I want to accumulate enough airline miles (80K) and also hopefully some free hotel stays so this trip is financially manageable.

So I guess the moral of the story is that I need to start looking into hotels too, not having any idea if it is even possible to get free nights in hawaii. But I guess i'm about to find out!