How are you choosing where you go? Bases on fares or based on where you want to fly?

Basically, in my book, in order for it to be a MR, you need to choose the trip based on how you can get the most miles out of it. If you spend time there, it still can be a MR in my book, just not a pure one. But taking a trip you already have and trying to get extra miles out of it is a little different. Here you will be paying a lot more for the miles...so miles can hardly be the motivation unless you actually prefer buying things for $400 when they same can be had for $200. In this case, in a sense, the purchase is the miles you are flying. If you are doing a mileage run, you choose a place where you get the most miles for the least $. You might happen to vacation there to. If you are on vacation and trying to add some miles while you are at it, you choose a place you want to vacation....