Originally Posted by
Meneer Guggenheimer
Racking up lots of miles is not that difficult if you are unlucky enough to fly them. I did a year with 25 WBC returns (one week there, one home) to Tanzania and that was more then 300K in level miles.
You're right, levels like this often come with significant impact on private life. Although I realised that the true explosion of my mileage balance came when I made a point to fly home between trips and fly out again next day, and make a multitude of one-day trips rather than a tour.