While I think COVID has put an end to my 200,000+ miles a year flying lifestyle.

I am still flying 100k plus, and I think there is a big difference between the two.

Flying isn't glamorous, but I think its like any other skill. Spend enough time doing it and you learn how to get "better" at it. Especially, if you read as much FlyerTalk as I do.

I have done the Cathay and Japan Airlines F flights TPAC, and all the associated jazz. Plus, F/J flights on the ME3.

I actually find the more I fly up front the less I am enthused about it.

At this point, I still enjoy flying but I don't have any delusions of grandeur. It really is just the best possible way to see the world.

I am writing this from a hotel room in La Paz, Bolivia. I have a 3:30AM wake up before a short hop over to Lima followed by a 4 hour layover. Then a 7 hour flight up to JFK. However, tomorrow night when I am back in New York City I will be nothing short of amazed that I could go from a vast expanse of desert down here to the bright lights of NYC in a single day.

Tuesday at 5AM I will jump on a friends boat for a tuna fishing trip out into the Atlantic Ocean.

Just like in May when I went from having a beer in Sydney Harbor to a walk through Time Square in just 48 hours.

The flying itself might not be the most comfortable or glamorous, but it does allow one to really have an insane amount of experiences in extremely short periods of time.

Without flying I wouldn't have been able to experience as much of the world as I have, and that to me is what makes it so great.