Hi Emptiness -

I have been to Thailand/Lived in Thailand many times over the past 5 years. I am not sure if you are going for luxury travel or economy travel. If you are looking for economy travel a good idea may be...

United Airlines 1 way Award Travel from Any New York City Airport (JFK, EWR) to BKK - 32,500 miles...you can usually get stopovers in Brussels, Tokyo, Frankfurt, Munich, Beijing, or many other international destinations.....you can then call up United and extend your stopover I believe up to 2 weeks....

Once in ASIA (ie BKK) I would suggest using the local domestic airlines to fly wherever you'd like to go (making BKK your HUB)....they are relatively cheap and include Air Asia and Nok Air for economny airlines and Thai Airways and Bangkok Airways for nicer airlines

When your ready to fly back home, Aerosvit airlines has many flights available BKK to JFK for $325ish dollars.....its a no frills airlines (I've flown many times) but gets you to A to B....I'm not big on first class travel, but would rather spend my money enjoying my destination...but to each his own!

So if you did this...using 32,500 miles to get to Asia then $325ish dollars to book a flight back from SE Asia...you could essentially say your RT flight to asia cost you $325

I just find this a more cost effective way to get there and back to Asia isntead of spending 65,000 miles!! Unfortunately the $325 price is only available BKK to JFK and not the other way around...or at least I have never seen it lower than $605 for JFK to BKK...so this is why I usually use miles to get there and cash to get back.......hope this helps...sorry if it was confusing...good luck!