Guess I'm in a rather rare position...but-for travel, my relationship would not exist. GF and I met whilst I was living in Edinburgh pursuing an LLB & Diploma in Legal Practice and she was there on a 1-term exchange program from Vanderbilt University. We hit it off, and when it came time for her to return to Nashville, I promised I would visit her once a month, at least. At the time, she didn't believe me...but 3 years and a few 100,000 FF miles on CO later, we're still together and quite happy. Luckily, coach transat trips during the school year tended to be relatively cheap (500-600 on average), and as I had no Friday classes, I would usually skip a Thursday or Monday (to alternate the groups of classes I was skipping) and fly out to Nashville for a long weekend about once every three weeks.

Now I'm living in Houston preparing to attend american law school, and she in New Orleans attending LSU Med (until the Med School got moved to Baton Rouge after Katrina...for this year, at least). So traveling back and forth is easier and cheaper (I now average seeing her every other weekend). This summer she will be attending summer school in Omaha, so I'll have yet another city to regularly commute to (Doubt I'll enjoy the trips to OMA as much as the ones to MSY).

Like I said, 3 years on and we're still happy...and have plans to marry after our respective grad school courses are complete (thankfully we'll finish school at the same time). Until then, Guess I'll just keep racking up the miles on my bi-monthly visits.

She also doesn't complain about the nice vacations we take in BusinessFirst using all the miles I've racked up