Back in the 90's, I took a lot of road trips and loved them! But when I discovered FT and frequent flying, I left the Road Trip era and entered Frequent Flying era...and it was wonderful! But now that flying is so much more hassle and unpleasant, I'm about to exit Frequent Flying, and will do that after my award RTW trip next month (mainly to burn off most of my remaining airline miles), I will then spend most of my vacations on the road again. I'll still fly, but not as much as before. I won't try to chase miles as hard as I used to, although I will try to chase after hotel points. Whatever flying I do will be in whatever YUP fare I can find domestically, and premium economy or even discounted business class overseas. Maybe I'll even be able to afford RTW in business class every now and then.

But I will no longer chase after miles as feverently as I used to, at least until this whole security nonsense ends, if ever at all.

It just ain't fun or pleasant anymore....