Hi, I'm Chris Mcdonnell and I live about 60 miles north of NYC with my husband of almost 39 years, Bill and our Siamese cat, Puss. All the kids are raised and on their own now so we pan to travel a lot. Bill is retired and I will retire on August 27 (4 months and 29 days but who's counting?)from the world's biggest circulation magazine Reader's Digest. And no, I do not pick the sweepstakes winner. I'm in the editorial end. Everyone always asks about the sweepstakes.

We are Elite on TWA but plan to expand either to Star or Oneworld for better choices of places to fly. Have no complaints about TWA just about the lack of good destinations outside the US that we would like to go to. After reading Rudi's plans for trips around the world I'm thinking of planning something like that for us. I never would have thought of it if not for FlyerTalk. I also have my entire family signed up for the 25000 mile MCI offer I learned about here. Next I'm going for Healthy Choice double miles. This has been the greatest find in all my surfing. I'm getting all these miles without leaving home. I love it!!!